Cool and natural expansion of their ride services to match Uber for Business.
Not mentioned that I could find in the materials, but ride-sharing/shuttle service would be a natural option to first pilot with Waymo for Business. That would put Waymo one step closer to upgrading legacy public transportation systems.
Just read the blog post but I’m not clear on what's actually being launched here. As an org, why would I 'subscribe' today, what do I concretely get (coverage, pricing, SLAs, etc.) vs. just signing up for a future interest list?
This is really exciting news! I think many tech companies would be interested in this service as it's a huge perk if you make your people commute into work.
I mean how many people drive for 30 to 60 minutes just to get to work in or already a bit stressed out because of the drive.
But second, wouldn't it be cool if places that serve alcohol could have a whole bunch of these codes to hand out! If somebody looks a bit too buzzed, just give them a code for a ride and send them on home. Heck even give him another code to come back in the morning and get their car!
Hope it's better than Uber for Business. I signed up my company for Uber for Business and everything about their pipeline was broken for corporate accounts. They still send me regular reports for an account that I can't use because I can't log into it.
Worthless and a waste of my time. Total joke. For everything I hear about Uber's supposed good engineering, I couldn't see a lick of it.
“Meet Sustainability Goals: Waymo’s fully electric fleet helps organizations advance their sustainability targets”
Taking a private taxi to commute to work or school is easily the worst thing you can do environmentally in a city. Doesn’t really matter that you’re not burning dinosaur juice.
Why are they not hyper-focused on scaling the number of vehicles on the road now that they have a working system? Is Waymo afraid of flooding the supply and crashing prices? Are they too expensive to build/maintain to justify a lower price point?
What is going on, if you have PMF the logical next step is scale.
There are months long lead times to arrange to rent space for depots, install charging points, and to staff up the depots, which need to operate 24/7. The more visible part of the leadtime to open a new city is in testing the service areas. But I doubt that the critical path.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 33.9 ms ] threadNot mentioned that I could find in the materials, but ride-sharing/shuttle service would be a natural option to first pilot with Waymo for Business. That would put Waymo one step closer to upgrading legacy public transportation systems.
I mean how many people drive for 30 to 60 minutes just to get to work in or already a bit stressed out because of the drive.
But second, wouldn't it be cool if places that serve alcohol could have a whole bunch of these codes to hand out! If somebody looks a bit too buzzed, just give them a code for a ride and send them on home. Heck even give him another code to come back in the morning and get their car!
Worthless and a waste of my time. Total joke. For everything I hear about Uber's supposed good engineering, I couldn't see a lick of it.
Taking a private taxi to commute to work or school is easily the worst thing you can do environmentally in a city. Doesn’t really matter that you’re not burning dinosaur juice.
Let people work remote from home so they don't waste time and energy commuting into the office.
What is going on, if you have PMF the logical next step is scale.