Thank you for sharing this. Safety is our top priority. We'd like to look into this further and share your feedback with the appropriate teams. Details like cross streets, time of day, email used for your account, etc will make it easier for us to look into this. Can you please share more details here? https://support.google.com/waymo/contact/feedback?p=waymo_email_contact_form
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No RA. And we got you u/OlliesOnTheInternet.
We’re all for enhancing road safety, but we’re not familiar with their system.
But if you want to discuss the Oxford comma ;)
- Trent
For some reason, I can’t help but think about the Little Mermaid’s Ursula and “the importance of body language” whenever people ask me this question. (Can you tell I have a kid?)
All this said, without the presence of a human driver, our autonomously driven vehicles do communicate their actions and intentions to other road users. Because our cars operate autonomously without a human in the driver’s seat, Waymo leverages its core autonomous driving technology to help fill those gaps and communicate what our cars do to other road users so they respond accordingly. The Waymo driver will (along with a bunch of other things) nudge, start slowly, use all available vehicle indicators, and honk to help communicate intent.
The Waymo Driver also communicates several messages using audio and visual cues. One of our newest signals visualizes on the Waymo dome display to the folks behind us that we are yielding to a pedestrian. We also communicate that a rider may be entering or exiting the vehicle to help prevent dooring collisions. - John
u/diplomat33 That’s correct, we did co-author the 2846 standard, and it’s important to understand the role we give to that standard. 2846 establishes the notion of a “safety-related model” that is capable, through kinematic envelopes, of informing when the driving policy of an ADS may not be appropriate for the current road environment. The standard itself establishes the reasonably foreseeable assumptions that can be made about the behavior of other road users that serve as an input to such a model. Waymo uses these models for behavioral evaluation, but not as a direct rule-based generation of trajectories. In other words, we use them to evaluate how we behave, but not to determine HOW TO behave in the first place. - Trent and Francesca
u/wannagowest Our strategy is 100% to hang out here on Reddit with you!
Jokes aside, we recognize that it’s hard to trust the new and unknown, and it’s not a one size fits all solution. Some other ways we build trust include attending local events, developing relationships with organizations like Mothers Against Drunk Driving, and through more public education, including our safety research papers.
Our experience and research has shown us that as the technology develops and more people connect with our driver, consumer acceptance will follow. I personally find it really really fascinating with this Safety Paradox (when what is later seen as a key safety technology is initially seen by some as unsafe). - Trent
No, Thank YOU u/Queasy_Rub7414, for making Waymo One your main form of transportation! It’s really inspiring for us at Waymo to see real people using and loving our service.
While it’s hard to speak to a hypothetical situation, here’s a few ways the Waymo Driver is well-positioned to navigate scenarios like this:
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Our sensors are uniquely positioned to provide our system a comprehensive view of the world — whether it’s our peripheral vision system enabling us to peek around traffic or from our central perception dome’s added height.
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Likewise, our maps can inform our planners and behavior systems to better inform us of what could be happening on the road and to inform our path based on deductive reasoning.
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And lastly, when in doubt, the Waymo Driver will wait it out and look for other context clues, such as what other road users are doing, to inform its path of action.
- Kris
