this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2026
76 points (94.2% liked)
Technology
89619 readers
3181 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Waymo is quietly turning robotaxis from a tech demo into infrastructure. 500,000 paid rides a week, roughly 4,000 cars and 15 US cities is no longer a cute experiment. The interesting part: 80% of the fleet is still concentrated in California and Texas. Scale first where density works, then expand. Tesla has a real race on its hands.
Not really a race. Waymo uses LIDAR, RADAR, and cameras. Last I checked Tesla only uses cameras.
teslas has the ability to lock onto children and increase the speed.
Underrated feature. Some might also say underutilized
They had to roll that back after the cars kept targeting their petulant child of a CEO
I’d pay extra for that version.
probably identifies non- white afrikaaners.
Tesla got some strong orphan crushing game
Especially not a race when Waymos decide to descend upon a random cul-de-sac and gridlock themselves. :)
Which is probably mostly fine in sunny weather. But fuck if FSD hasn’t scared the fuck out of me when you get weather that obstructs cameras.
I heard that the Sun doesn't light things up good enough at night. I heard that it is dark at night. Probably mostly stupid rumors, but lidars/etc wouldn't harm anyway.