- Very neat. I recently went to the Waymo depot in Bayshore (Toland St) and snapped a couple of pictures of the new Zeekrs for Wikipedia.
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Waymo_Zeekr_Vehicle_...
[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Waymo_Zeekr_Vehicle_...
- That art fixture's placement at the Mission Waymo Depot is kinda cool. It's evocative of a future in which humanity lives a life of indolence propped up by automation.
- Makes me think of Miniatur Wunderland's "self-charging" system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC8aOLWR134
It's the world most complex model railway with cars (not just trains) that go around in predetermined routes, and also go to the charging station when their battery is low. And I guess Waymos are a version of that but with human-scale! (Oh they still need humans to plug the charging cables into them).
I wonder if they park themselves or if the maintenance people park them...
Also, the footage feels like Satellite Reign https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFZVXG0g40Q (or the original game, Syndicate Wars)
- Love the moonrise! Beautiful shots.
When most road transport is automated it will seem crazy that everyone had to drive for themselves, or sit in the car with a complete stranger, who may prioritise their comfort over the traveller's with regard to audio, navigation noise, air 'fresheners' / diffusers, temperature. Perhaps analogous to having a flatmate; it's mostly done out of necessity rather than choice.
- If anybody is wondering, the music in this video appears to be "Alonia" by Valante. Very soothing.
- Very interesting to see the workers in yellow presumably cleaning and manually plugging in the cars to charge.
- Gave me a new appreciation for the scale of the investment /bet that is being made on transportation of the future.
- There are also neighborhood self-help groups who try to "stack" the Waymos into alleys so that they can sleep:
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/25/us/santa-monica-waymo-bat...
by Cadwhisker
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- I had to replay that to appreciate how the transitions from night to day were done so very, very well. The dynamic range of the shots always seemed spot on.
That isn't easy to get right.
- Pretty cool. How do they get charged?
- Getting Bladerunner vibes from several things but mostly that giant translucent synthwave Marco Cochrane statue.
by rossjudson
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- This is actually rather beautiful to look at, covering a full day/night cycle. Well done.
- Great clips and editing. New perspective on the scale of self driving cars deployed currently.
by erwincoumans
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- Nice shots, would fit well in the Baraka (or Samara) movie.
- This is cool and soothing. Merry xmas
by KellyCriterion
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- Very impressive video! What you can clearly see:
If you scale this over the next years, "manual driving is over" :-D
This is just the very very early beginning, like the first seconds after big bang, we haven really started this whole thing: If you put just more ressources here, we will have giant parking houses for just self-driving-cars, like "coming home over night and recharge"
And this technology will come on a mass scale, Im pretty sure - there is nothing that can stop this?
How will this affect transportation jobs?
If you are today a big insurance like Munich Re, and you see already today that self-driving produces already much less accidents (90% or so I read days ago?), and the tech is really new & "not 100% reliable" and you believe that this tech will be rolled out - one day you will start lobbying politicans that manual driving needs to be forbidden, except some rare cases.
Lets come back in 10 years! :-)
by admissionsguy
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- Can't they get out and kill the Ubers already instead of sitting in the lot?
(half-serious, but I have been wondering what are the reasons they don't just push the price towards zero during low hours?)
- What amazes me about Waymo is how expensive the rides are. They're at least 20% more expensive than Uber (the much more expensive Uber of today, not the Uber of 2-4 years ago), sometimes 100-150% more expensive.
If they can't be cheaper, then what's the point?
by blueblisters
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- Surreal. Almost like an optimistic science fiction film.
After all, self driving cars have some of the highest positive to negative externality ratio of any modern technology
by lateforwork
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- Seeing all these Waymos together like this... is depressing. You get a sense of the scale at which machines are replacing humans. This could be a scary movie made in 1970s about the robotic future... and that future has now arrived. What will the world look like 10, 20 years from now? What would a scary movie made today contain?
by chakintosh
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- Waymo's been doing for the past 5 years what Elon's promised to deliver 10 years ago (and is still not delivering)
by transitorykris
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- Watch the Zoox test vehicles please. They do absolutely terrifying things, _in every encounter_.
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