[HN Gopher] Waymo has completed 2M paid rider-only trips
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       Waymo has completed 2M paid rider-only trips
        
       Author : ra7
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2024-07-26 18:31 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | more_corn wrote:
       | Completed is a strong word. Mine wouldn't let me out. I had to
       | wait for it to stop at a light and bail. I'm pretty sure they
       | should mark that a zero. MARK IT A ZERO DONNIE THIS ISNT NAM,
       | THERE ARE RULES.
        
         | JumpCrisscross wrote:
         | > _Mine wouldn't let me out. I had to wait for it to stop at a
         | light and bail_
         | 
         | You're upset it wouldn't let you out of a moving vehicle?
        
           | spaced-out wrote:
           | Some of us like to jump out of moving vehicles and do a cool
           | roll or flip like in an action movie! This is yet another use
           | case the Silicon Valley technocrats didn't consider...
        
         | 39896880 wrote:
         | "Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules."
        
       | MichaelNolan wrote:
       | The 1m rides mark was announced May 10th and 50k trips per week
       | was announced May 16th. So they must be getting close to 100k
       | rides per week if my math is right.
        
         | refulgentis wrote:
         | 100%, 90,900/week. Astonishing. 2x in 3 months? [1]
         | 
         | Are we seeing the hockey stick?
         | 
         | They've been consistently candid, and indicated the next
         | vehicle is the one they'll scale on, custom taxi by Chinese
         | automaker Zeekr. I figured it'd be another couple years, maybe
         | build out LA, scale SF to highways, and maybe the Zeekr was
         | just PR. But they recently started testing it, way ahead of
         | what I thought they would...[2]
         | 
         | [1] May 10th to July 26th = 77 days 1,000,000 rides / 77 days =
         | 12987 rides/day 12987 rides / days * 7 days/week = 90909
         | rides/week
         | 
         | [2] https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/23/the-waymo-zeekr-
         | robotaxi-h... Steps: May 10th to June 1st = 21 days June 1 to
         | June 30th = 30 days July 1st to July 26th = 26 days
         | 
         | 1m rides in 67 days = 130k
        
       | lopkeny12ko wrote:
       | > over 2 million paid rider-only trips completed
       | 
       | And how many of those trips were actually "rider only" and not
       | "rider with remote assistance operator"?
        
         | andrewmcwatters wrote:
         | > rider with remote assistance operator
         | 
         | Do you mean like, remote driver? Or a specialist had to help a
         | fleet vehicle out of a weird hangup? Because based on my
         | experience, it's probably nearly all of them minus some nominal
         | percentage during events like navigating downtown Phoenix
         | during Comicon.
         | 
         | If I remember reading, they can't remotely drive the vehicles.
        
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