This is just my anecdotal experience, but most of the time when I compare Waymo and Uber prices in my city, Waymo is cheaper.
For example, I’ll use both apps to calculate the fare to the same destination. Waymo is almost always slightly cheaper, and that’s before considering that you aren’t expected to tip.
Even if it was slightly more expensive, I’d prefer Waymo every time. Not having to deal with a driver, being able to put my own music on, and the flexibility of being able to edit my route at any time are great.
Paying “way mo” not to talk to anyone.
Apologies, I recently became a father
One of us! One of us!
I don’t have to tip my Waymo
Waymo is really premium and more like getting an Uber Black, probably better. You get to talk shit with your friends as loud as you want, play your own music, and there’s no pressure about anything. You know exactly how long it’ll wait. What it feels like is those movies where the rich guy has a private driver with a privacy screen like a limo. The overall standard of the vehicles is very high, clean, and safe feeling
I mean they have cameras and mics in the car, they say they don’t have the mics on unless you call support, but they are apparently recording video at all times.
A bunch of Uber’s do too. Unless it’s your own car there really isn’t an expectation of privacy.
Yeah, even with personal vehicles the amount of “telemetry” data being collected is getting ridiculous.
I’m guessing for vandalism reasons?
I tried once as a novelty.
The bus running the same route was 1/5 the price, and probably more direct (at the time, Waymo would not use freeways) but it was an experience for the sake of “nifty optimistic future thing”
