> I recall a particular incident where Waymo was marketing their car being able to drive a blind man to a drive-thru, way before the thing could safely drive more than a mile on it's own.
How is a marketing video relevant from 2015 relevant to their safety record? They weren't even operating a public robotaxi service back then.
> My understanding is that in 2021, it still can't navigate parking lots (which would preclude using it for drive-thrus).
Completely false. Here is one navigating a Costco parking lot (can't get any busier than that) [1]. If you watch any videos in that YouTube channel, it picks you up and drops you off right from the parking lot. Yes, you can't use it for drive-thrus, but it doesn't qualify as "lying about capabilities".
> Later, they were talking about how sophisticated their technology was: It can detect the hand signals of someone directing traffic in the middle of an intersection. Funny that a few months later, a journalist got an admission out of a Waymo engineer that the car wouldn't even stop at a stoplight unless the stoplight was explicitly mapped (with centimeter-level precision) so the car knew to look for it and where to look for the signal.
Here is one recognizing a handheld stop sign from a police officer while it stopped for an emergency vehicle [2].
How is a marketing video relevant from 2015 relevant to their safety record? They weren't even operating a public robotaxi service back then.
> My understanding is that in 2021, it still can't navigate parking lots (which would preclude using it for drive-thrus).
Completely false. Here is one navigating a Costco parking lot (can't get any busier than that) [1]. If you watch any videos in that YouTube channel, it picks you up and drops you off right from the parking lot. Yes, you can't use it for drive-thrus, but it doesn't qualify as "lying about capabilities".
> Later, they were talking about how sophisticated their technology was: It can detect the hand signals of someone directing traffic in the middle of an intersection. Funny that a few months later, a journalist got an admission out of a Waymo engineer that the car wouldn't even stop at a stoplight unless the stoplight was explicitly mapped (with centimeter-level precision) so the car knew to look for it and where to look for the signal.
Here is one recognizing a handheld stop sign from a police officer while it stopped for an emergency vehicle [2].
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5CXcJD3mcU
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpDbX1FViWk&t=75s