Edit: upon closer review, I see my neighborhood at the edge of town is completely excluded from the new map. I guess “all of San Francisco” only includes about “half of Bayview.” Boo. Some of the people who would benefit most from new forms of transit live around here and I’m more disappointed to see them erased from GM’s stated view of “all SF” than I am to personally miss out for now.
Well, I’m excited. We took our first Cruise this weekend to get between the Richmond and Hayes Valley and it was great. We were immediately saying how much we hoped it would expand to a bigger area with better hours - I’d actually gotten into the beta a few months ago but hadn’t gotten an opportunity to use it at the right time and place.
The biggest flaw, to me, is that I can’t play my own music over Bluetooth. But just being able to select the radio station is a welcome change from the country pop lottery. I think that sort of experience quality improvement will compete hard against human driven alternatives. The Cruise drives a bit like an overcautious grandma, but I’d prefer that any day to the chance of an Uber or Lyft driver that’s aggressive or sloppy on the road. Yes you’re being recorded (I’d assume live monitored right now), but you can talk about whatever you want without potentially being interjected.
Never did get into Waymo - I see them everywhere, and it would have been really convenient for me since I live at the edge of SF without my own car. So woohoo, thanks Cruise!
I’m becoming a true believer in the self driving car vision. Even if they can’t work everywhere til the distant future, they’re already extraordinary in the places they are able to work now. I chuckled to see the headline on HN about self driving cars being a “dead end”, considering how many empty Waymos I see in traffic all the time.
The hype cycle burned people out too early. I see the same happening with GPT now.
Turns out hard problems take time and money. I don’t know how much has been spent on self driving research in the last decade, but globally it’s likely approaching $1 trillion.
A trillion dollars can solve most problems, including this apparently.
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Edit: upon closer review, I see my neighborhood at the edge of town is completely excluded from the new map. I guess “all of San Francisco” only includes about “half of Bayview.” Boo. Some of the people who would benefit most from new forms of transit live around here and I’m more disappointed to see them erased from GM’s stated view of “all SF” than I am to personally miss out for now.
Well, I’m excited. We took our first Cruise this weekend to get between the Richmond and Hayes Valley and it was great. We were immediately saying how much we hoped it would expand to a bigger area with better hours - I’d actually gotten into the beta a few months ago but hadn’t gotten an opportunity to use it at the right time and place.
The biggest flaw, to me, is that I can’t play my own music over Bluetooth. But just being able to select the radio station is a welcome change from the country pop lottery. I think that sort of experience quality improvement will compete hard against human driven alternatives. The Cruise drives a bit like an overcautious grandma, but I’d prefer that any day to the chance of an Uber or Lyft driver that’s aggressive or sloppy on the road. Yes you’re being recorded (I’d assume live monitored right now), but you can talk about whatever you want without potentially being interjected.
Never did get into Waymo - I see them everywhere, and it would have been really convenient for me since I live at the edge of SF without my own car. So woohoo, thanks Cruise!
I’m becoming a true believer in the self driving car vision. Even if they can’t work everywhere til the distant future, they’re already extraordinary in the places they are able to work now. I chuckled to see the headline on HN about self driving cars being a “dead end”, considering how many empty Waymos I see in traffic all the time.
The hype cycle burned people out too early. I see the same happening with GPT now.
Turns out hard problems take time and money. I don’t know how much has been spent on self driving research in the last decade, but globally it’s likely approaching $1 trillion.
A trillion dollars can solve most problems, including this apparently.
Well, on that note, learning that the far south end of SF is excluded from “all of San Francisco” certainly reduced my own hype.