Waymo

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• Tesla RobotaxiPeople praise its smooth, natural driving and low fares compared with Waymo and Uber, and say rides work fine. Critics say crash rates and unclear human supervision remain unresolved.41recommend
• Waymo DriverPeople recommend it as the most successful driverless system, with public rides that work, though critics note remote human help and limited service areas.23recommend
• Tesla CybercabPeople recommend it as a much cheaper self-driving ride than Waymo, built as a two-seat vehicle. The most common caveat is that its self-driving safety and camera-only approach are unproven.21recommend

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The 40 most detailed of 1689 comments. Each links to the original.

1. Insanely impressive. Dealt with traffic, ride share drivers randomly blocking lanes, people/bikes/scooters dashing into the path and more. All went flawlessly.

   Recommends · May 2026 · in “Uber, Lyft drivers in Massachusetts form first US ride-share union”

2. Waymo is operating at a much larger scale across a huge range of conditions with hardware that's generations behind their latest and still performing better.

   Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “All about automotive lidar”

3. Waymos have driven so many miles by this point, if they are hiding some data that would tip the scales back towards human drivers I have yet to see it.

   Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “Waymo 13x safer than human drivers”

4. they've cleared every conceivable statistical hurdle to conclusively demonstrating that they are better than humans on injuries and airbag deployments

   Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “Waymo 13x safer than human drivers”

5. We find that when benchmarked against zip code-calibrated human baselines, the Waymo Driver significantly improves safety towards other road users.

   Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica”

6. waymo slowing down and that kid surviving a crash after jumping on the road from behind a tall vehicle was the best PR waymo could have asked for

   Mixed · Feb 2026 · in “The Waymo World Model: A New Frontier for Autonomous Driving Simulation”

7. Waymo at least seems to take safety fairly seriously, with data indicating they cause far fewer serious accidents than the average human driver.

   Recommends · Oct 2026 · in “Waymo in Toronto”

8. Riding a motorcycle or even a bicycle around Waymos feels surprisingly safer. You can reliably predict so many things about how it will behave

   Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “Waymo 13x safer than human drivers”

9. the extra $30/mo for the small convenience of getting priority and being able to cancel a few rides could be seen as “cheap” by comparison

   Mixed · Jun 2026 · in “Introducing Waymo Premier, an elevated rider experience”

10. I’ve seen many ambulances get blocked just seconds away from the hospital because of Waymos unable to navigate complex intersections

    Mixed · May 2026 · in “California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws”

11. a peer-reviewed study showing statistically significantly lower crash rates than human drivers across 56.7 million rider-only miles

    Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Tesla is having a hard time turning over its FSD traffic violation data”

12. Waymo’s vehicles have been involved in 94% fewer crashes that cause serious injury or worse than human drivers on the same roads.

    Recommends · Jul 2026 · in “We Demand Perfect Machines yet Tolerate Human Carnage”

13. they've been much more aggressive in the ways that make a good driver a good driver - confident and assertive when they should be

    Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “Waymo 13x safer than human drivers”

14. every woman in our office always agrees they will choose waymo over uber every time, due to the lack of (presumably male) driver

    Recommends · Aug 2026 · in “Waymo – Dallas Open to All”

15. Waymos do this and have for years. They know where the people are around them and will take precautionary action based on that.

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica”

16. This honestly seems pretty ideal. In a dangerous situation, the only risk is property damage - there's no driver to threaten!

    Recommends · Jul 2026 · in “Waymo reports teen riders for bad behavior and delivers them to the police”

17. The statistics that are available say the Tesla AI is worse, in general over roads and conditions, as compared to Waymo's AI.

    Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “Tesla Shareholders Approve Elon Musk's $1T Pay Package”

18. I used one last time I was in Silicon Valley and I was super impressed with its driving. Very confident and felt super safe.

    Recommends · Aug 2026 · in “Waymo – Dallas Open to All”

19. crashes resulting in injury (5x reduction) and crashes where airbag deployed (14x reduction), relative to humans in Austin

    Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “Tesla reports another Robotaxi crash”

20. given the spotless record of these sorts of companies in zealously guarding our privacy it would be unthinkable that Waymos is listening in to our conversations

    Criticizes · Oct 2026 · in “Learning to live with Waymos”

21. force the driver in the actual rightmostlane to break to allow it to merge else it would have caused an accident as there was no lane in front of it

    Criticizes · Apr 2026 · in “A School District Tried to Help Train Waymos to Stop for School Buses”

22. A moderately expensive subscription service that simply provides priority access to something you're otherwise already paying good money for.

    Criticizes · Jun 2026 · in “Introducing Waymo Premier, an elevated rider experience”

23. inexplicably going 20 in a 35 with no one in front of it for nearly a mile. I loathe these things, they're like automated drunk drivers.

    Criticizes · Feb 2026 · in “Waymo Seeking About $16B Near $110B Valuation”

24. These systems were programmed to fall bad into "terrified 16yo/elderly lady" behavior because that's what's most legally defensible.

    Criticizes · Dec 2025 · in “Waymo halts service during S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams”

25. How is this useful in any way? by definition it's a subscription for people already using the service in the (few) supported cities.

    Criticizes · Jun 2026 · in “Introducing Waymo Premier, an elevated rider experience”

26. Waymo is overly conservative last time I checked. Driving the speed limit basically means getting to your destination twice as slow.

    Criticizes · Nov 2025 · in “Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides on freeways in LA, SF and Phoenix”

27. Yea you get "privacy" in a car kitted with the most advanced 360 degree camera system in the interior and exterior of the vehicle.

    Criticizes · Jun 2026 · in “Introducing Waymo Premier, an elevated rider experience”

28. Because booking is deterministic (it says 20 minutes, it will be there in 20 minutes, even if it's a short ride), I can connect with the loose network of city and regional rail systems

    Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Waymo says expecting driverless taxis to stay out of bike lanes is unrealistic”

29. With Waymo and Tesla increasingly doing what they said they would do, and a small number of early adopters happily paying money for their services, that do work.

    Recommends · Oct 2026 · in ““Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically”

30. Waymo (or ideally, a wide variety of competing robotaxi services) should exist everywhere in the country and be as widely available as cars and roads themselves.

    Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Waymo in Portland”

31. Dropping a precise pin on the map is no guarantee that it will actually stop right there, depending on the situation on the ground when it arrives.

    Mixed · Aug 2026 · in “A look under our trunk: what's in our compute”

32. It's just an vastly more inefficient than any other form of public transit, but an order of magnitude more efficient than private passenger cars.

    Mixed · Apr 2026 · in “Waymo in Portland”

33. Waymo isn't relying only on speed matching the car in front, so your experience with SuperCruise and BlueCruise doesn't extrapolate to Waymo.

    Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides on freeways in LA, SF and Phoenix”

34. A network of fully autonomous electric self-driving cars on a developed roadway can only be superseded in efficiency by high speed rail.

    Recommends · Aug 2026 · in “Waymo – Dallas Open to All”

35. I think it was a perfectly acceptable reason for the Waymo Driver to refuse service to these customers who had broken their policies.

    Recommends · Oct 2026 · in “Police are using AI to pull over drivers for 'suspicious' behavior”

36. Waymo is already working, on roads today, for less time and money than it took to build zero miles of high speed rail in California.

    Recommends · Aug 2026 · in “Waymo – Dallas Open to All”

37. Every year that skeptics delay adoption of autonomous driving is another year where tens of thousands of deaths could be prevented.

    Recommends · Aug 2026 · in “Waymo – Dallas Open to All”

38. this is a statistical negative mark for Waymo putting their child pedestrian injury rate at ~2-4x higher than the US human average

    Mixed · Jan 2026 · in “Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica”

39. They're doing the right thing here, but they also surely realize how much worse it would be if they tried to deny or downplay it.

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica”

40. it will be a massive draw turning that into a pure transaction with a robot instead of it being a potentially social experience

    Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Joby Kicks Off NYC Electric Air Taxi Demos with Historic JFK Flight”