Tourists Violate Driverless Waymo’s Personal Space | Waymo Ride Along #4

[@JJRicks]

This is the best coverage of Waymo dealing with tough roads I've ever seen, bravo 👏👏👏

[@jerrysapepine]

I love how pedestrians wave at the driver but theres nobody in there haha

[@GangStalkingIsACrimeDotCom11]

Some people mistake the waymo for a Google maps driver.

[@dieglhix]

they know there is a camera

[@vinn7944]

I loved that you loved that.

[@xogmaster]

At 14:31 what actually happened is that it knows it shouldn't be stopping in the middle of intersections and registered someone across the street on the left who had a path that would intersect with the car so it stopped before getting into the intersection, that's why the brake was so hard.

[@JJRicks]

Mr. fast-fingers in the back seat there changing the destinations all the time to make the video better. Love it

[@fastbuckwu]

Watching the system react to pedestrians in those cramped streets was fascinating.

[@pennyharris446]

People just walk in front of the Waymo knowing it’s going to yield to them. Waymo is impressive.

[@nikpapado9785]

This is one of the problems with Automated driving, the other drivers/pedestrians can bully it

[@MsArt888]

@@nikpapado9785Maybe it could emit some warning about jaywalking and the fact that it is recording.

[@nikpapado9785]

So? People would still bully it, they are made to yield.@@MsArt888

[@Sashazur]

@@nikpapado9785Sure but unless the other driver or pedestrian is crazy, they won’t bully it for too long. Most people - even bullies - eventually realize when they’re wasting their own time and will move on.

[@nikpapado9785]

I do not mean actually bullying, I assume that the vast majority of people driving are grown ups with things to do. What I am talking about is cutting it off, or similar behaviors that would force the automated car to yield.@@Sashazur

[@theblacksorrow]

23:59 really impressive, detected the pedestrian and tracked his movements even from behind a vehicle

[@zachb1706]

It would’ve seen him. The cameras on the roof are much higher than the view we get from inside the car

[@hindugoat2302]

@@zachb1706 it can detect whats around it without a camera, like in pitch black it can detect through solid vehicles

[@brianwilt5379]

thanks for recording the screen too

[@janicekingshott52]

I was visiting San Francisco and was going to take a Waymo to the rail station to head home yesterday. I had it all set up. When the car pulled up I did not know I was getting into a shared trip? My initials were supposed to show on the overhead. My initials were not there so I assumed, since someone else was already in the car, that it was not my ride. Then about five minutes after it pulled over I got a message saying “Sorry we missed you!”. I was charged half the fair anyway for missing my car?? I don’t mind about paying, it was a minimal amount but they need to figure out a way to let people know it’s shared rather than a private ride.

[@rileyburnett720]

I think it’s supposed to say on the app that it’s a shared ride. But I’ve never taken it so not positive.

[@JJRicks]

Just a few minutes in here and hoooooly cow you picked some good spots. This is incredible

[@geoffreycarter3981]

Something I noticed was how crazy and dangerously other human drivers were on the streets compared to the Waymo. I'm impressed.

[@warsameegal5179]

12:47 im fully convinced that guy with the suit wanted to get hit by the self driving car and get a fraud claim.

[@cosmoslawls]

...which is such a stupid thing to do, there's so many cameras in that car

[@MrJames1034]

If he's a Chinese immigrant, then that makes perfect sense. It's an integral part of their culture to make false insurance claims.

[@seanthesheep]

If you look more carefully, he saw the car and slowed down, and tried to make eye contact with the driver. Since the car slowed down, he took it to mean that the car is letting him cross, and rushed across to avoid inconveniencing the car. The same interaction commonly happens with human drivers; the pedestrian was obviously neither malicious nor ignorant.

[@leokim8340]

@@seanthesheep then why did he cross the street at 12:38 and cross again when Waymo is trying to cross it?

[@P2Feener305]

😂🤣 this comment makes no sense.

[@amazman977]

Great video. No shaking no giddiness. Thanks.

[@Bobrogers99]

I'm impressed! Heavy traffic, lots of wandering pedestrians and weird intersections. A couple of times Waymo went through on a yellow light, but it may have been better than stopping on top of a crosswalk. It stopped before the firestation to keep the space clear, which is something that a human driver might have missed. Waymo is sometimes cautious, but that's not a bad thing. A video like this is a fine display of Waymo's capabilities!

[@DisgruntledPigumon]

Having driven those streets for decades, I’m impressed. As far as the override… I would say a pull over button right on the screen is an override.

[@tyronenelson9124]

I wander how this waymo taxi responds in bad weather like thunderstorms, rain or snow especially at night?? you only seem to see videos of them in clear daytime weather!

[@pennytrui1149]

No there are videos of maymo driving in the night and fog watch Maya. She has a few videos of waymo driving in the rain

[@P2Feener305]

No ?

[@Sidicas]

today I learned you can turn left on red from a one way onto a one way in some states. 🤔

[@blocktech1911]

great vedio ecspecially on the busy small road , amzing job ,thans Kevin !

[@ConstantinPhillipou]

This is truly unbelievable

[@jckncoke]

Interesting path it chose. Instead of just turning right onto Columbus when it turned right onto Broadway from Grant, it took you several blocks down Broadway to Montgomery just to circle back at Pacific to make a left onto Columbus. That is a longer and more accident prone route.

[@MelissaAndAlex]

1:57 lmfao the guy honking

[@rioriggs3568]

@14:10 the light was yellow with pedestrian on the other side of street. It couldn't just accelerate through the intersection. Excellent call by Waymo!

[@ruskiedie]

pretty funny honking at a driverless car:) I saw this in Phoenix as well when a waymo let out a huge load of kids that just walked slowly in front of it after as traffic backed up forever . Kids knew what they were doing

[@hindugoat2302]

the waymo needs a way to defend itself from bully pedestrians, maybe like a water squirter?

[@jan3019]

I'm very impressed

[@BronsonOsborne]

AWESOME VIDEO

[@harshadmahadik3022]

In a heavy traffic 🚦 it drives smoothly & carefully without any hassle

[@cjboffoli]

Fascinating. Thanks for posting..

[@kafenaded]

Thank you for the people at waymo! you guys are so smart!

[@Nibiru420]

Is it perfect?? No, but it's damn good. Can't wait to see it 5 years from now.

[@bearcubdaycare]

"Waymo doesn't understand hand gestures." That's a skill that should be expected of autonomous driving. Pretty essential.

[@Canleaf08]

I have my clipper card, I use traditional transit, BART and the Muni. Best connection to SFO and Millbrae, whenever I’m there.

[@yuyouyou5995]

super impressive! thanks for sharing.

[@amazman977]

You may miss your flight to the airport if the car cannot find a safe spot to pick up the passenger.

[@Jens.M]

Ohh man I should have tested Waymo out when I was in SanFran!

[@petecoventry6858]

Amazing can't wait to try one

[@jeffdur1330]

I'm not ready for this.

[@P2Feener305]

Have you seen these cars in a parking lot 😂 they aren’t ready for themselves.

[@Gryphonisle]

It should be noted that Waymo chooses a route best suited to the car, not the most direct route. A recent trip I took from Hyde and Geary to 1 Market at the foot of Market, that should have turned left a block south on O’Farrell to reach Market at Stockton (or…) instead went Left on O’F, then left again a block east to go up Leavenworth to Clay, and down Clay through Chinatown. Then a loop for a block to Mission and back to deliver us at 1 Market st. Still it’s the most serene driving experience and the best advertisement for full automation and getting inferior and incompetent humans out of the drivers seat.

[@Tokyo_1031]

we should also remove human passenger element and just let the robot drive themselves since we're so disgusting. Idiot.

[@RogueAI]

Waymo seems to have much better situational awareness than the pedestrians

[@GRamerDim]

I bet it needed a blinker fluid change at the end

[@SahilChaturvedi]

Really impressive! Can't wait for them to come to Austin

[@a.thiago3842]

People are talking about the 14 minute mark. And i think that it break that strong because he's right on the edge of an intersection, where it cannot stop on the zebra lines. There's cars coming from the other street. So, if he continued without caring, he would stop right in the middle of it, blocking traffic. It's a think every driver should do aswell. But you know, people would just drive by and block traffic regardless.

[@MelissaAndAlex]

11:34 she was really like I’m just walking in the middle of the road

[@washtecsoftcarejunoguy2143]

Looks like this Waymo car has the artwork on the side

[@Vegasmafiaboss]

Looks more like remote control to me when the car pass the truck

[@agildehaus]

You have an excellent setup and I look forward to more of your videos. Can you explain how you've mounted your cameras? I want to do similar when I'm in a Waymo again. I'm loving these SF and LA videos since they're so much more challenging than what my Waymo had to do in Phoenix. Seeing the Waymo stop to keep the path clear for the fire station was very impressive. There's so much confidence here, with just a few minor sub-optimal moves that I'm sure will be ironed out over time.

[@KevinChen5]

Thanks for your kind words! The main camera is a GoPro mounted according to JJRicks guide here: www.jjricks.com/make-a-waymo-video The screen camera is an iPad on a keyboard case. I wouldn't recommend this setup because the keyboard case is pretty flimsy. I'm switching back to an iPhone on a tripod soon. Both cameras have software stabilization disabled since I found that it introduces artifacts when the vehicle turns. In my opinion, these artifacts are worse than not having stabilization.

[@JJRicks]

​@@KevinChen5Oh hey thanks!

[@JJRicks]

​@@KevinChen5^^^^^ yes, definitely disable stabilization. The I-PACE is very smooth already so if your mounts are solid it should be good

[@abhishekgarg5286]

Just hold up a fake stop sign & the Waymo car will stop. Dumb as a rock. LOL

[@Sashazur]

@@abhishekgarg5286 Road workers can hold up temporary stop signs, and it’s also possible to have legit stop signs placed temporarily. Waymo should stop for all stop signs whether they’re on its map or not.

[@BLKBRDD]

14:08 there was a pedestrian about to cross on the other side of the intersection (LHS)

[@DanFrederiksen]

I'm not sure it is supposed to do the u turn at Pacific avenue, which is actually a 6-way intersection but they don't make it clear that it's not allowed.

[@haroldsmith45302]

Good video, thank you. I wonder how Waymo would mark (on the screen) and handle a moving pedestrian wearing a white T-shirt with a traffic cone stencilled on it.

[@briq4409]

Wow, Jaguars have the most annoying turn signal sound ever.

[@Ggg496]

Scary!

[@FOPAudits]

11:22 Can you please reach up and honk at this person please 😂

[@alabamaredneck4010]

Try it in Harlem and see long it will survive or before it gets jacked 😅😆

[@dr.yeminswe8860]

1:45 It look like a real human driving.. despite waymo don't understand human gesture, it honk twice as if "hey man I am going" and then, there is 1-2 second delay as if waymo is waiting for human movement and gradually speed up .. like so smooth like a human

[@abhishekgarg5286]

I don't think that honking was from the Waymo car. Honk was from someone behind the Waymo car, honking at stupid AI of Waymo.

[@Sashazur]

@@abhishekgarg5286I agree. I think it’s technically illegal to honk in this situation, so Waymo wouldn’t do it.

[@youtubehub8190]

this is way better than tesla FSD

[@AdamWood]

They've had 20 years. We'll see if that stays the case. if Tesla can pull it off, FSD Teslas will be everywhere, including the highway and rural areas, where waymos can't currently go.

[@panjak323]

​@@AdamWood But why would anyone choose to use simply inferior vision only based system ? The Tesla PSD (partial self driving) is still struggling precisely because Elmo removed the necessary sensors to save a few bucks.

[@puregero]

Quite interesting watching old videos and seeing the braking so unsmooth. It's usually so much smoother in recent videos - I wonder if it's just anecdotal or if Waymo has gotten that much better over the year And wow, why does this video have 200k views, impressive

[@walker-snow]

It's like a NPC controlled vehicle in GTA5 😂

[@cccaaa9034]

14:10 It seemed to me that the person crossing on the other side of the intersection was too close to the cross walk and with the yellow light soon turning red, it would have left the Waymo sticking on into the intersection after the red light, at least for a couple of seconds, until the person cleared the road. It was a decent decision to just wait for the next green light.

[@cabbagememes2852]

Damn the future is already now they might even put driverless semi trucks also with this technology

[@ab8817]

how about driverless school buses, and pilotless commercial planes

[@cabbagememes2852]

@@ab8817 yep Thoese are good too but I can see people won’t trust it as much because even with driverless cars and such they can have issues and might cause accidents or even glitches that can harm humans. But I think software engineers can find solutions to fix these type of issues and make the ideas you said a possibility I bet there already testing it out anyway

[@jerrysapepine]

Would love to see that in snow blizzard

[@cabbagememes2852]

@@jerrysapepine agreed waymo needs to implement there vehicles in snow states where they get the most snow to see what it’s capble of

[@Dave05J]

​@cabbagememes2852 then who would watch the kids? And who would get in a pilotless plane?

[@_symmetry_]

This Johnny Cab doesn't whistle the Norwegian national anthem while driving

[@michaelWells-ef9bx]

Like the way U can see those “ Scum” on the Scooters passing on the Right on your Screen .

[@UrbexTroll]

1:44 This is hilarious, people are in so much of a hurry they are honking at a self-driving car. If they only knew how stupid they look.

[@FOPAudits]

15:12 this was impressive.

[@MiniKodjo]

How would the car behave if it had to gather momentum to climb a sidewalk or go over a speed bump at low speed? Would it stay stuck???

[@weekdaycycling]

What if the police pulled the car over for a traffic stop or some other reason? Will it respond to the light and siren signal?

[@pennytrui1149]

Yes

[@Mrdachs88]

Wow, I didn't know they were this advanced. Impressive

[@Fiarrari]

Hmm, I wonder how this AI would perform in a snow blizzard

[@blackeyeni]

As a German, this footage of the American streets and traffic is horrifying to me. I mean... Our streets and traffic are bad, but not THIS bad 😂

[@Canleaf08]

German here too. Driven in SF once, it is horrible. The BART and the SFMTA Muni is better.

[@RM-xr8lq]

lmao wait until you visit a civilized country outside of germany 😂

[@TVAD1701D]

The Karan honker lol behind

[@YouBuyEats]

Good🎉

[@insaneapples1559]

One of these days someone is going to buy out all these self driving start ups and we'll have a huge network of them under a single brand. Problem is sadly we are unlikely to ever see this in the north where it snows, causing obstruction to cameras and difficult road conditions.

[@ahmet6144]

Camera problems can be solved with a heating element on the cameras, difficult conditions is a bit more difficult tho idk how to deal with that

[@Sashazur]

One huge network could be safer, but the main thing the operator of the network would do is jack up the prices.

[@Dave05J]

Then there would be no competition and the cost will go straight up

[@Archimedes.5000]

Why would that be a good thing tho

[@FOPAudits]

11:22 I woulda just give a quick honk tap

[@iPhoneVídeos-z5s]

Sooo cool, we need this in Europe 😂

[@Jakevd]

0:45 look at that face

[@lancewood1410]

these tourist just came out of their villlage.

[@DieserLukas]

crazy

[@arnedomi]

This in insane. I hope this horror never comes go my country.

[@uhjyuff2095]

I think the override comment meaning can you tell the car to abort the ride.

[@mobiletransportvideo]

5:05 curious what the guy on the left was doing?

[@yeahnoway111]

what guy

[@mobiletransportvideo]

@@yeahnoway111the Toyota driver.

[@kingderderder]

Illegally turning left on red. There is a "no left on red" sign

[@yoHOBODAN]

I could crawl faster than LA traffic

[@adrianaugustus2815]

At 1:22 blocks a car that wanted to pull out. Selfish driving just like a real driver.

[@Frozenfireist]

We need these instead of Tesla

[@fernandoberger1187]

Lol $250k car with lidar

[@alakani]

​@@fernandoberger1187 I'd prefer the one that doesn't send $45mil per month to a psycho's SuperPAC

[@migzz7976]

How do driverless cars even get car insurance?

[@Operator_Fate]

im pretty sure one day these AI will have enough of these peds

[@Archimedes.5000]

17:20 bruh wtf is that diagonal crosswalk

[@rioriggs3568]

@5:00 the guy just runs a red light... What the hell in going on in the US these days?

[@telekommandant]

How much tip is Waymo demanding?

[@KevinChen5]

No tip accepted

[@jk35260]

Delivery jobs will be gone soon, just missing delivery bots to move the goods to the door.

[@MINIMAN10000]

A lot of delivery is the last 100 feet though. Just driving to a location doesn't get you all the way. If you're going to have a person you might as well have a person do it instead of investing in automation that doesn't reduce staffing. When it comes to business side of things, employees can take over the last 100 feet. But consumer delivery not so much.

[@FunFactFreaks]

A solution to a problem that never existed. Just another way to strip people of jobs and a purpose in life.

[@zachb1706]

Driving people from A to B isn’t a purpose in life

[@FunFactFreaks]

@@zachb1706 It is for those millions who currently do it for a living. It feeds their families. I'd say that is a pretty good purpose.

[@waza3350]

Cars invention is another way to strip away people job then.... If we use your logic Taxi driver would be a thing. And pretty funny to see your message when you are literraly using AI voice over for your video instead of real voice over. Look like you no more care about losing their job to AI here....

[@ajstevens1652]

It's corporate greed trying to make more people unemployed.

[@szymczak34]

Hey I'm not saying this isn't pretty cool, but does it really make economic sense in the end? All of the tech required to make these things go is not cheap. They also have to go back to the depot every day for daily maintenance and checkup, also not cheap. Without the driver there is an increased chance of riders / pedestrians abusing them. They are fine in the nice parts of SF, but what happens when they venture out into the bad parts of town? If some drunk dude throws up in it, does it then just continue onto the next ride like nothing happened? Again, it's cool, and it works, but it doesn't come without big operating costs. I don't see how it makes sense for the long term if the economics struggle to work vs your typical Uber with driver.

[@KevinChen5]

I agree. They have shown it can be done at great expense. Now they need to prove the commercial viability.

[@nou7401]

this is testing phase m8

[@mrcaz9164]

Are Waymo's gas or electric?

[@randomshortshq2434]

How is it that we can have these operate themselves without a human sitting behind them, but Tesla’s have to abide by strict regulations, when the car is more than capable of driving itself without a human even in the car.

[@Matt561]

Lidar, without it Tesla will always be behind.

[@Matt561]

Lidar, without it Tesla will keep falling behind

[@Easore]

​​@@Matt561nah, not really true. Cameras can do the job too. A waymo costs well above 200k, while a Tesla can do the same and even better for starting prices of 39k. A big cost factor is the lidar sensors. Thats also why waymo is not able to scale to make it useable on the market. Also, waymo only knows how to drive on those lidar premapped cities, it wont be able to operate in nonmapped areas like Tesla which interpretes camera signals on the go in unknown terrain. Relying on lidar mapped areas is too unreliable for scaled up world wide operation

[@Matt561]

@@Easore The lidar is for mapping dynamic environment, only using cameras is what's holding Tesla back

[@zachb1706]

Because Tesla says itself that FSD is still a Level 2. Level 3 and above are liable on the manufacturer. Tesla has some way to go. Making Tesla Vision as accurate as LiDAR is one. It currently can’t judge distances as well as LiDAR can. Tesla also doesn’t use HD mapping data. That means it must rely on sight a lot more, which adds complexity.

[@lindasvensson593]

happy friday wtf

[@테슬라투더문]

웨이모 잘하네...그런데 장비 가격이 넘사벽이라. 그게 문제지..대중화를 어찌 시킬지..

[@jaybron5795]

All this technology will be the demise.

[@michaelWells-ef9bx]

~ Gotta tell u though. I had one pull over in a Turn Only lane the Other day to let out some ( Super hot Chicks ) On Montgomery st ( at Rush hour ) Took the girls a few minutes to get out ~ at a light that said ( No Turn on Red ) ..... I could see at least 10 Trapped Behind me. ( Thats was Sooooo Uncool Waymo. ~~~ Who uses a Dedicated Turn lane as an Unloading Zone? thats Crazy.

[@cisy]

The Waymo visualization is much better than Tesla. Tesla's often flickers and detects big cars / trucks inaccurately.

[@nou7401]

probably costs two times a tesla too

[@andeeznation]

The point of a steering wheel? not needed

[@zachb1706]

I think it’s too cautious. Watching FSD v12 it’s a lot more assertive - it’s more human like. Stopping for a pedestrian who’s not even near the crosswalk is stupid.

[@mozziezapper]

Can Waymo honk?

[@KevinChen5]

Yes

[@philh8023]

This is great but also sad because people going to lose job. We going to have universal income soon. I hope we tax this equipment high.