I took a ride in Waymo’s fully driverless car
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
- Waymo’s fully driverless vehicles are doing passenger trips in the suburbs outside Phoenix, Arizona. We got to experience it first hand, and our ride included a close brush with a construction site, a wrong turn, and a flock of pigeons. But more importantly, it got us thinking about what it means when Waymo says the future is driverless, and what we lose when we eliminate human driving.
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Would you go for a ride in a fully driverless car or are you still hesitant?
It’s the future!!! once all cars are autonomous, transportation will be so much more efficient
Not in my lifetime, and I'm 25
I would do it in a heartbeat! I so welcome this technology. I can't wait until it's the norm.
Honestly I would just stick to Autonomous Shuttle Buses like the Muji GACHA for now
@@error404blah For sure in your lifetime. They already exist, its not going to take 60 years before these are mainstream
Driverless cars are also wearing the seat belt! What a time to be alive!
Maybe there's an invisible person
it's just so it doesn't do that beeping thing
Varun Nahar
Willy Du - 2019
it just to make passanger feel that "it's a responsible driver"
The car would hate to get any demerit points for not wearing a belt.
They need to launch it Mumbai
And it will get 10 years of experience in 1 day
Haha 😂
Yash Kansal lmaooooooo.
Sahi hai
Would it get through a single day, though?
Rational_Thinker_86 lol what are you? 10?
This is cool but this will be a hilarious clip 10 years from now.
infernovoid make sure you put on your tin foil hat before writing comments
In 5 years
Isn’t that what we said 30 years ago
Dam that grammar big brain
agreed lol
Wow these are waymo advanced than I expected
9Br3ak3r it's amazing. But do know all the roads they drive on, are already pre-scanned by Google and extremely carefully mapped. These cars can't drive on any road, just the specific ones they are trained for
Yeah, pretty lame-o...
@@samuvisser yeah. And also if some thing changes due to construction or something like that, the system needs to be updated. Waymo makes cool looking stuff but not something scalable to the whole world. If self driving cars are the future, it must be level 5 and nothing less. It's a very difficult problem to solve so I still appreciate what Waymo has done to advance this field.
Samuël Visser This is why Tesla’s autopilot is so much more successful. You put it on a road and it works, even if it doesn’t work as well as Waymo does.
@@akzebraminer And when Tesla's autopilot fails, it is the owner/driver who is responsible. When Waymo fails, liability falls on them. Tesla can boast all they want about their auto pilot, but it still cannot drive you around without having a person behind the wheel.
Open the trunk, Hal....
"I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"
Your comment is extremely underrated !
"Open the pod bay doors, Hal"
"Sorry, this is Siri, I did not understand what you just said"
Open the trunk and you will find a guy with joystick 😂
The editing is awful, show the damn road and wheel not the dude
editing problem
it's footage not editing
@@Molemanski thanks for caring that much that you came back to see other replies
Ruan Moleman 😂😂😂😂
Agree Terrible host and vid
My exact thoughts. Incredibly stupid camera work.
"You can trust these robots" *famous last words*
They might DieYoung lol
@@labacnotan i felt like they paid him to say that
It consistently respects the lives of city doves and yields to pedestrians so we can indeed better trust these robots.
Tube Specific yes, big tech knows best. Trust big tech, next will be the brain chip... we can trust the brain chip... lol
@@Jimmystockphoto I don't want to take the mark of the beast system of greed. I know it's all profit oriented...
seat belt buckled. It's the invisible man at the wheel)))
On a serious note, the seat belt needs to be buckled because otherwise the car will turn on the no seat belt blinker
Aayushman Bhatia they can deactivate that, I don’t know why they didn’t
@@willinton06 probably because its far easier to just click in the seat belt :)
willinton06 It’s a Chrysler. One wrong mod and the things broken LMAO
@@aayushmanbhatia6561 Also many driver assistance features behave differently, like auto hold, parking brake won't self apply, and some cars will limit top speed.
7:02 Lol, that's the best reaction you can have when you realise someone is filming you.
This is my stop Waymo... Waymo this is my stop!
I’m not going to be able to do that Dave.
Too much video of us watching you talk inside the car. Show us the view outside while it's making manoeuvers.
Couldn't you rent another vehicle to do follow shots?
agree, what value does seeing him talk add to this video, would much rather a dual view, with a small inside camera view if they must and mostly outward view of the vehicle. Also how long was the trip?
@@TonyTylerDraws acceleration, lane change, and overall smoothness is similar to a human? If so, that's really impressive.
canngo123 100% agree
@@canngo123 Yes, you couldn't tell a difference if you didn't know it was a self driving car. They drive like a very cautious defensive driver.
I agree. We didnt see the car changing lanes. He just said it did that.
Filming was bad.
I like how for every company, they always say "no other company is doing this, no other company is close to us."
Everybody gansta until the Chrysler starts driving itself
Spotted a few of these while driving near the resorts in Chandler! What a sight to behold!
I just made a comment on how they're overtaking the phoenix area lol
masterimbecile I bet it wasn’t raining, snowing, or foggy the day you spotted a few of these. In other words the car is totally useless at this point 🙄
That "routing correction" is a mapping detour. They don't usually take a direct route and instead try to cover some extra ground in lesser known areas so they can have more variety in their mapping.
Are passengers paying for the longer route? It sounds like these self-driving taxis could be programmed to be just a crooked as some taxi drivers.
Oh wow, you stopped right next to my apartment complex! My roommate’s car was in the background!
Imagine looking over and seeing no one in the driver's seat 😂
As someone who owns a small dog and who hates seeing dead wildlife on the road, I have wondered for a long time if autonomous vehicles will be taught to recognize animals. I am VERY happy to see this Waymo stop for those pigeons! ♥️
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Agree, but now imagine how many obstacles it will also stop for instead of going around like roadkill and debris. The failsafe solution for autonomous vehicles seems to be stop for everything, which isn’t always the best response.
What if someone was behind it?
@@lgaddy
The cars are programmed to see the person, but not the animal. So it's not that I care less about people than animals. The point of my comment was that the car needs to be programmed to recognize both.
@@anneahlert2997 I'm not sure if you meant to reply to me or not, but I was just wondering if the car would be able to tell of there was a vehicle behind it.. would it cause a pileup? Don't get me wrong I'm glad it stopped for the pigeon, but wondering if it would know what to do in that type of situation..
Plot twist : There is someone driving this car via 5G network from waymo HQ
If drivers work like that i wont be mad at this
I said this 5 years ago and I'll say it again: "This car is terrible for robbing banks."
Maybe yes , maybe no... just think about it for a moment : police officer asking Witnesses what did the driver of the car look like ...
@@gardensofthegods 🤣🤣
@@gardensofthegods 😂😂😂😂
@@gardensofthegodslol 😂😂
3:29 - weird wheel twitch
Road bumps i guess?
It probably got a little confused, since it wanted to make the turn, but a car was approaching so it perhaps tried to do both things at once.
Yielding on solid green light
It's being "safe" the logic it believe it needs to avoid something. But good eye.
It may have experienced higher ping
One day the folks in 2050 are going to be like “unreal experience wtf lol”
I'm pretty sure In 2050 they'll be making fun of our technology
@@themandoloreean2314 Yep. Just like tech in 1989 is super outdated today. in 2050, I can't even imagine what's gonna be around
Peter I. Technology hasn't progressed that much in recent years. I think people advanced so much that they kind of got "stuck".
@@starchannel123 What are you talking about? We didn't even have smart phones 13 years ago. Now we're putting on VR goggles playing 4k games. Technology progresses every year, you just have to notice it.
Yeah when they driving at 400mph because all cars are self driving
I like how the drivers seat belt is properly fix
Safety first
someday, cops will be out of the business of giving speeding tickets
A lots of people who drive for a living will also be out of business ...Driverless cars looks cool but also boring at the same time ...Most people love the feeling of getting into a car and driving it ..
@@blast4me754 it may seem boring now, but soon we will be able to use our phones and watch movies on our way to work, which is by far more fun than driving
@@baitreview We already do that all day as it is lol ..I love my internet but I don't love it that much where I need to use it while I'm driving ..
@@blast4me754 You do you bro. But 2 hours of the day for me is just spent in transit. I could do half the work and catch up with a tv series on the way
@@blast4me754 do people actually like driving wtf what is there to like
years from now this video will be uploaded and entitled “The Ancients experiencing AiCars for the first time lol”
'Before we know if self-driving cars are really worth all this effort'. Of course they are! Of course they will get safer than humans. This really is purely a question of the timeframe. Once a computer learns to handle a specific tricky situation, it will always handle that situation perfectly. It's just a question of getting them used to all tricky situations possible
There are infinite situations that’s the thing I don’t believe a machine will ever drive aswell as a human
@@drivingandvloggingforalivi929 "a machine will ever drive "
No need. There will be remote operators standing by to take over if the car is unable to continue.
The self driving software can predict seconds in advance if help needed, so maybe the passengers will not even notice.
@@bokoloaranyfa3824 what’s the point I would prefer a driver
@@drivingandvloggingforalivi929 it's not what you prefer, it's what the company that runs the service prefers. I can already see it. In 2040 people are gonna say things like "Oh, I only take taxis with real people" Like the Organic craze that started in 2014.
@@starmorpheus you’re dreaming this is a fad that’s already losing steam in 2040 people will laugh at the idea of robotaxis taking over it also is about what I prefer as I am the customer and believe most people would agree I’m bound to find it he people that wouldn’t on a video like this aren’t I good day
Self driving cars just need to hit a critical mass where if enough cars are self driving then there is no human error they need to account for.
Yes insurance will be so expensive for human driver cars. Get them idiots texting while driving off of the road.
So therefore insurance should be dirt cheap
The thing is that it will probably be 50-100 years after self driving cars launch for almost every driver in America to have a driverless car. Think about all the 20th century cars we see on the road today.
Some of us humans actually like driving and are good at it.
3:28 Had me so nervous !!!!
"with nobody in the front seat" it is hilarious!
I just wish waymo would do their testing in more cities.
They do, in waymo cities than you know.
@@thedukeofbellington8898 LOL this comment needs to be appreciated more. Haha good one.
Yes, it would be fun if they had some in my city so I could prank them. Can’t wait to see what the kids do to mess with them. 😂
And just wait until the muggers interfere with them to rob passengers stuck in them. Oh, that’s going to be interesting.
As someone who who cannot drive, I really hope this technology matures.
Do you have some sort of disability that does not allow you to drive?
Same I legally can’t
Pay a taxi driver
@@drivingandvloggingforalivi929 That's not an option for me, and lacks autonomy.
Ben Dunaway why does autonomy have to be present ?
Damn, it's very cool to see that they're starting to feel comfortable enough to send these things out without humans in the driver's seat.
No its not. People need jobs
@@circusboy90210 Bro, take a second for me and look back at the history of those fighting to keep the types of jobs that were sufficiently replaced by technology. What you'll find is a 0% success rate. Trying to stand in the way of automation is a losing battle every time. The move isn't to sit there and stubbornly refuse to adapt. It's to look at which way the wind is blowing and adjust. Otherwise you'll find yourself in the same spot that elevator attendants, switchboard operators, and travel agents did.
@@circusboy90210 Overall, automation creates more jobs than it ends. The printing press replaced scribes, but created a monstrous media industry. The problem is job re-training, not technology. Also, taxi driver is one of the worst jobs on earth.
Very scary.
I’m just wondering how these cars merge onto a highway if no one lets them in 😅
I got a guestion. What happens when someone decides to weaponize a self driving level 5 car, as in load it up with explosives. Just a wondering. Not saying anyone would ever do that.
Tech Innovation Rocks! 🔥 This Topic Sounds Interesting and Scary at the Same Time 🔥
Yes, finally we're seeing "Jetsons" reality come to life, except the car doesn't fly.
Yet.
Lol when I saw his phone I started laughing. I forgot that phone still existed.
Plot twist: it's controlled by aliens chilling there ship in out space
We now need moustachless Verge reporters.... not just driverless cars...
Another 10 years and we might see this in almost every car
At least 15 years before mass adoption
@@Btt8 personally owning a car is not the future. Instead the majority of people will simply hire taxis. Waymo can do this method in 10 years easy.
1000 years haven’t even discovered mylon technology
A 5:40, the Waymo tech explains why Tesla's approach is going to eat their lunch. Tesla will understand the weird edge cases much sooner than Waymo. They simply have more data.
the anxiety masking in this video is HILARIOUS
1:40 "and it's changing lanes on its own"
SHOW IT THEN, I want to see the car change lanes, not see some guy say that the car is changing lanes.
Wow! Google has their hand in Waymo things than I knew.
Awesome concept that will become a reality but give it time please!
5:36 They will need employees remote monitoring every car live in order to keep it from messing up lol
Truly nowadays I trust a computer to drive a car more than a human Some Humans are really crazy unsafe drivers
When are we going to see full-fledged fleet in all major cities of USA of this Waymo's full driveless car?
03:27 scary as f*ck routing correction 🤯😬🤪
I've had to make plenty of routing corrections due to wrong turns I've made. So, I don't have a problem with that, besides, I wouldn't want to be dropped off at to wrong destination.
@@daveid7247 I think thomas' comment was more about the wiggling steering wheel than the fact that the car did the routing corrections in the first place😄
I think that was caused by bumps on the road, not by the actuators of the steering wheel.
Real word traffic is dynamic, meaning always changing. If you use Google Maps on a daily basis, in a metro area, it will always find the best route, and it will take you on that route. Same thing with self-driving vehicles.
Sean or perhaps it's algorithm determines that's the safest way, albeit unintuitive
This is amazing. Technology has gone crazy. I don't believe this type of driverless cars can ever be invented and produced. But this is a prove that human beings has the capacity, ability and capability to invent whatever the mind can conceive. Am so proud of those that invented this wonder on wheels. Hopefully, I'll be able to purchase one in my life time. Thumb up guys. This is simply Genius.
why is waymos cars having a steering wheel.
Problem is that they still need super detailed map and human intervention. The next step is the hardest
It would seem the human intervention part isn't as necessary anymore considering they're letting them run without safety drivers.
@@laserlemons1577 but with people remote monitoring and taking over when the car doesn't know what to do, so not totally autonomous yet
No driver on the driver seat 💺 but still strapped with the belt ohhhh come on now. 😂😂😂
6:30 Yes it is worth it, I figured that out in 2010.
Less accidents, no parking houses, no parking spaces in cities, specify your destination and go down to the sidewalk and a free roaming car will pickyou up and deliver you, have the cars charge at solar hubs when necissary and optimise their routes with pickups, deliveries and charging.
All of these are equally true today.
Yeah, and just imagine how much it’s going to cost for a taxi ride at least twice a day for back and forth to work. Then add in all your other trips. And unlike bus fares, taxi rides won’t be government subsidized, which reduces the cost of bus fare seven-fold.
@@LuckyCharms777 Seriously, are you basing you comment about the future on todays world? In a world with cars rushing through intersections without lights in 60 mph, one lane roads, and decentralized swarm behaviors.... why would there even be busses? What function wold a buss provide that wouldn't inhibit everything else? Why would people ever agree to go out of their way to pick up others, or sit and waste time to let others off where you yourself is not exiting? There would ofcourse be larger self driving vehicles that would take people between two large commuting points like a train station and a university or some recreational facility, but there will never again something like a "buss" that takes people around a city and make slight detures to stop and pick up more people.
And about the cost, this would ofcourse be the cheapest transportation available. Driverless vehicles that never stop or never rest except to charge, with a uniform simplified design to keep cost and repairs down, with a tiny battery but fast charge rate, that takes you where you need to go 5-10 times faster than today will cost litterally next to nothing and that is what you will pay aswell. Also, since there are no busses these vehicles would be subsidised insteast, which actually makes them free to use by the public. AND they still make the city save money due to fewer accidents, less roads and roads maintenance, more space in the city when additional lanes, parking zones, parking houses, parking next to the road can all be removed in favor for other things.
@@johanlarsson9805
Lol, you’re ridiculous. You have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about.
@@LuckyCharms777 Lets come back here in 25 years and see which of us is correct
Love that the seatbelt is on in the drivers seat
Imagine looking over and seeing no one in the front seats of a car while it's driving! Lol
Technology has come a long way since DARPA’S driverless race across the desert in which ONE CAR crossed the finish line.
This is a 3 mile trip and approximately ~ 7 minutes to destination. The road to Baby Kays is just a straight shot from the Watershed. Don’t be fooled with this video .
Waymo has been operational everyday in Chandler for a few years now. Are you making the assumption that this was an isolated trip just for this video?
Human: I'm the best driver 😁
Computer:
what if they get pulled over and the police officer ask for license and registration 😂
beginning of skynet
Who needs a getaway driver?...
Not me 😊
If I was driving besides this car I’d be mortified
I think they need to tweak the AI on the steering. It seems to over correct which causes the shaky 'undecided' movement
Have you seen people on icy roads?
Great I new the day would come when we could drink and drive
When they go into the residential area, it really makes me wonder how the robot car would navigate the streets, because where I live, especially where the house driveways are like 6 feet from the garage to sidewalk, and everyone parks on the street. Would be interesting to watch. Lot of times there's only enough room on the street for one car to go through at a time.
Absolutely! Situations like these are very difficult for computers. Also on snowy roads where you cannot see the adge of the pavement. A human could look at the texture of the snow to determine the surface under it.
@@jvinsnes the great thing about self driving cars is that they can see everything humans can, and then some! with training from cameras on non-autonomous cars and virtual simulations, combined with the possibility of adding sensors or cameras that can do stuff like see light that passes through snow to get additional information! there are no inherent limitations of a computers perception that humans can do, but there are human limitations that AIs can surpass (of course they need more information and training on snow and stuff, but once they get it to the point where they can drive them safely, they'll get information and training exponentially faster as all the cars share training for recognizing situations like snowy roads)
We are finally in the jetsons Era
This is a great idea and even better for those who have seizure disorders.
Enjoyed the video, but the 80's called and they want your mustache and jacket back ;P
The 90’s called, they want your overused prank call phrase back
"Andy with the Verrrrge"
I have worked on waymo process in hyderabad for 2 n half years..in future all roborts will help us
Casper the Friendly Uber Driver.
People think Andrew Yang is making this up.
Andrew Yang is repeating what was said during the industrial revolution
@infernovoid change is often unpredictable. That's why I like the future. You never know what you might get. Hopefully good things though.
It would be a great idea to make a partition or something to not see that twitching wheel. It’s absolutely terrifying to look at this while the driverless car is driving by a truck on the opposite lane.
It has a highly detailed visualization map.
Tesla: Hold my electricity.
PONY in Irvine CA is doing driverless cars now too currently although they still have humans in the driver seat. Fascinating.
Me on a roller coaster : “ Pfftttt piece of cake “
Me in a self driving car : “ *AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH (breathes)AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHfuckyouletmeoffHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH* “
This is going to be a Uber/lyft job killer! Good luck on finding other jobs guys.
I was so nervous watching the video,expecting it to bump into something, but I think it drives better than I do.
They drive like an overly-cautious person, so yeah it's probably safer than most people.
In 30 years people will be like why were they so concerned in this video😂
I give it 15 years
I think down the line Tesla’s implementation will prevail cause it’s much cheaper and much more suited for mass production, but idk how long will it take it to get there
Does it work when there is construction on the road, police directing traffic, past a scene of traffic accident ?
I can see my mom’s face starring right at me from outside the driver side looking in…..
We've learned nothing from the 10k movies about robots turning on us smh 🤞this doesn't go bad
I assume Waymo pre-plan and heavily map their routes so it becomes a "routine" drive. You can have an unlimited number of variables where a human needs to take over, eg. traffic officer directing traffic with hand gestures, traffic lights malfunction, drivers yielding to each other etc. In Europe the roads can be narrow and there's usually a lot of "I wait" or "you go first" and vice versa. I can tell if an authorized person is holding a stop sign or not - but could a self-driving car ever know?
It can 'every know', yes or course. Your brain is just a glorified computer, making decisions based on data it gets. What your saying is the reason driverless cars are still a ways out, but when talking on a infinite timescale anything is possible :)
Would've wished to see a more interesting route. Anyone living in the area knows this is a 3 mile straight route.
There's not much variety in the area these run. It's all a big grid with the occasional neighborhood or parking lot to navigate.
Government need to ban self driving vehicle work as any taxi or delivering stuff, but personal use.
Funny. I see these every day they are 5 minutes away from where I work. It's normal seeing these driving around
Pablo looks happier now that he has lost his billions. more money more problems.
Ppl are going to stop learning how to drive and then when something goes haywire they won’t know what to do even if manual controls are handed over
Now I’m totally convinced that humanity is on its last leg!
It stopped for the pigeons now that's safe lol
Here goes another job 😱
Andrew Yang
We've been talking about that for decades now. If any driver hasn't prepared for that time and is not retiring in next 10 years he'll have only himself to blame.
Why would I want to pay a person if machine does it for a fraction of a cost? This is a normal course of events.
id love a driverless car now, no more accidents, traffic, or parking problems
Um yeh and software can’t malfunction?? What happened to Boeing
Super advanced car, with self-driving power. still have to plug the driver seat belt, probably because they can't disable the ring
just like in total recall when he gets into a "johnny cab"
Just need R2D2 in the front seat and I’m sold!
Im not going to lie I really hope they make roads for people who choose to do a full auto drive and a road for people who want to drive on their own. That will make life so easier no traffic just smooth driving
Squirrel hijacks a Waymo, goes nuts.
Did I get that right that they just work in Phoenix because they trained the cars there and the area is detailed mapped? So the cars wont just work in any city?
Exactly! Waymo is about ten years behind Tesla.