New self-driving car company offering free L.A. rides

Residents and visitors in six neighborhoods across Los Angeles can experience free, fully autonomous Waymo One rides for a limited time. Samantha Cortese reports for KTLA 5 News at 10 p.m., October 6, 2023.
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[@Native722]

Lets go Waymo!

[@OptimusOne]

It's like a Johnny Cab minus Johnny! "Hello! I'm Johnny Cab. Where can I take you tonight?"

[@EricWilliamsCG]

Drive!!! Just drive!! Could you please repeat your destination?

[@fransschreuders8488]

Somehow LA is gunna turn this into a police chase.

[@neckarsulme]

or some lunatic will hold it hostage and then all the parts will be stripped

[@gmc8810]

​@@neckarsulme exactly somehow coming soon.

[@neckarsulme]

Lol, I just saw a story about some guy who tried to car jack on of them@@gmc8810

[@r3d260]

I usually trust human drivers a little more, until I was riding Uber for my whole one-week trip in LA… I did not feel safe at all. And the drivers were in general unprofessional and impatient. I would definitely try the driverless taxis if it becomes widely available on my next trip.

[@tomtom3889]

Yea that’s Uber. Call a taxi service.

[@gabiausten8774]

Me: ,,Bel Air please!” Self driving car: ,,Bellevue Ohio locked, car doors…locked.”

[@hashfors]

Better than Belarus I guess.. poor Donald Jared Dunn, some say he died in that container..

[@gabiausten8774]

@@hashfors 😂😂😂😂 was that a Silicon Valley reference I see?

[@octoberwhatever8033]

How 🤔 many traffic jams will these cars cause?

[@matw1x]

Way better than human drivers.

[@scholarlyreader383]

Please explain why?????

[@endersonuser]

​@@scholarlyreader383had too many bad experiences with human drivers. Once took an Uber in LA with my friends and I sat behind the driver's seat. Multiple times, the man reached to the back through the door side, secretely touching my legs pretending he was reaching for something in the back. On a different occasion, I took an uber from LAX and the driver went 100mph on the highway and went 60mph at a 30mph zone whule running over 2 red lights. There are good drivers, but I'd rather not gamble and be safe without human drivers all-in-all.

[@darrylwashington1398]

I love the car❤❤❤

[@anpanmomdesu]

It's scary being the guinea pig but this is the wave of the future.

[@eyehavesumtosay]

LA need stricter driver safety laws because we all know people don't listen.

[@oeao2841]

Why?

[@neckarsulme]

they need people who actually adhere to the existing laws

[@scholarlyreader383]

You make no logical sense... People don't listen to whom?

[@samp6237]

Dickhead solo drivers need to get tf out of the carpool lanes

[@eyehavesumtosay]

@@scholarlyreader383Oh in layman's terms I'm referring to people not following rules. Most people in LA like to speed, make illegal U turns and park in no park zones lmao! So, if we decide to have self-driving cars, we need people that listen or there should be stricter consequences.

[@jimbobfisher8904]

Not if these drivers have something to say about it.

[@inthefaceofdanger3160]

Wow people are so clueless!

[@roydimanalata8505]

Omg so chill kind of car .😁

[@jeffscott6656]

How do you buy insurance?

[@alfredoalfredo8796]

Most of these will be at your local bars 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺....🎉🎉

[@junkboxxxxxx]

Why does rhe car have rear view mirrors? There's no human to view

[@mark99k]

I understood it's because the cars still sometimes need to be driven by humans. We've seen a few on the freeways, where self-driving isn't currently allowed.

[@homaassal2794]

What if someone jumps over to the driver seat and take over, is the car gonna hang and cry

[@philliplewis3754]

In San Francisco one of the autonomous vehicles up there just hit a female pedestrian and it stopped on top of her.

[@littlebookbook]

its the human driving car hit and run, throwing the woman under the Cruise car. But cruise car did not detect it.

[@philliplewis3754]

@@littlebookbook thank you for making the point really clear, the autonomous vehicle didn't detect it. There was also an 18 wheeler making a giant left turn, "swing wide it's a friggin trailer" is their mantra, the autonomous vehicle didn't detect it and crashed into the trailer. Another ½ second and it would have been under the rear tandems. In the news clip when the EMS truck was in it's lane, did you see how fast and careless it went around to the left. It scared the hell out of the news reporter. 20,000,000 miles of testing and they still don't have it right.

[@gooderlinsen]

No idiot. It's a human driver hitting it and ran away. And it detected it. However, you idiots don't know physics: the car hit the brake , but it was moving so need time to come to full stop.

[@nrs2052]

and she survived, so?

[@philliplewis3754]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZ3TcmmapsZppJosi=yyXtphfgdGNXS3jk California DMV suspends Cruise autonomous vehicles permit to operate in California because this accident was no big deal!

[@wes5150.]

Who goes to jail when the car kills a pedestrian ?

[@Native722]

You

[@Siliconevalley-rw7xl]

Waymo hoeing is OPEN 🤣🤣🤣🇺🇸

[@Lovely-rm8np]

So that will take hard earn living people who works full time or part-Time on Lyft and Uber drivers and the city will allow to take away their jobs and their livelihoods, that’s stupid!!! So more homeless and there are who cannot work at desk job or work with people for medical reasons or this is there extra income for the rise of rent and cost of food. Wow if Los Angeles allows it then that’s shows how they don’t care about humanity way of trying to survive.

[@Hamid-cm2pt]

They’re fixing homelessness problems

[@raymundohernandez8322]

They never cared you're gullible if you think they ever cared

[@mark99k]

The laments about taking jobs are misguided. Your town no longer has a blacksmith because we don't use horses for travel. The invention of the sewing machine means it takes fewer people to make clothes. A combine harvester does the work of many farmhands. Almost ANY major technological innovation changes the workforce.

[@AJ-mm1iy]

No License Required

[@jeffscott6656]

I witness this car run a red light. It was late at night. Very dangerous to ride in, and driving next to.

[@disgracetodiscuss9410]

Isn’t California getting rid of roads in the future around 2035

[@ObeseCaligula]

Climate change will take us all by 2025. Guaranteed.

[@lilyrose7082]

What happens when it drives you off a cliff or into a large body of water with all the doors stuck on lock? They also could drive you somewhere you don’t want to go and that computer voice is creepy! No thanks, I’ll drive myself!

[@hotnerd8428]

Rather those cars than electric cars my opinion

[@mark99k]

These cars _are_ electric.

[@elinoreberkley8221]

Green deal is a bad deal.

[@crystailmoniquesmith8088]

I want free code

[@elinoreberkley8221]

Yeah no thanks 😂😂😂

[@RAY.POLARIS]

This is it. Robots taking over, we're doomed!!

[@RAY.POLARIS]

What if the car initially has been programmed to drop you off to a Starbucks few blocks from you, as you have requested it , but somehow the system of the vehicle flips out on you, locks all the doors and you end up being dropped out to San Francisco 😂?

[@pennytrui1149]

Lmaoooooo 😂😂😂😂

[@TheBerlyn186]

Good bye Uber and Lyft drivers and say hello to subscription taxis from apple, Tesla and others you won’t a car in the near future

[@scholarlyreader383]

Very poor reporting

[@olivrrrr]

Voluntary beta test at your own risk 😂

[@gooderlinsen]

It's NOT Tesla. Sing a new song

[@bombaybeach208]

What is the obsession with self driving cars?

[@eddieg6436]

….Most people are HORRIBLE drivers. These self driving cars will reduce traffic caused by human STUPIDITY.

[@THEVOIDZ]

big companys love and financially support self driving cars because it gives the consumer less control.

[@bombaybeach208]

@@ICallItAsItIs Not going to happen. By taking away things that humans do, you take away humans. No one wants to sit around doing nothing.

[@bombaybeach208]

@@ilikeswordsnstuff Just malfunctioning vehicles.

[@bombaybeach208]

@@eddieg6436 So, we all sit silently in taxis saying nothing to anyone, we all silently do our own groceries, pump our own gas, and become more and more isolated, depressed and enraged.

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[@stevegonzales527]

No thanks. They wokies can ride it. You shouldn’t be scared of the driverless car but the people behind wheels that’ll crash into you and on top of that electrical bugs will be your coffin 😂

[@briancleveland6115]

Do you know that airplanes have been flying themselves for a long time ? It's called autopilot.

[@vb5662]

Only the lame will ride in these.

[@littlebookbook]

2008: Only the lame will use the iPhone.

[@chairmanzia3556]

Good, much cheaper