Waymo will start testing self-driving cars in New York City
As someone who both bikes and drives around Brooklyn, I would bet this is going to be nearly a decade of testing. There are so many edge cases that I encounter on almost every single trip, and I just don&#x27;t see anything but very advanced AI handling it<p>- obvious, but large numbers of pedestrians and cyclists<p>- 2 way roads becoming 1 lane where the directions must take turns due to construction, deliveries, or the Uber in front of you stopping in the middle of traffic for a pickup<p>- resurfaced roads that don&#x27;t have lines painted on them for weeks or months<p>- congested intersections where you&#x27;d probably need to wait 3 hours to pass through legally, so you have to just pull into the intersection trusting that traffic will clear when the next light turns green<p>- pittsburgh lefts need to happen for the sake of traffic flow sometimes<p>- sometimes you need to do very human and assertive &quot;negotiation&quot; to get into the lane you need.<p>- another comment mentioned Waymo cars just rerouting to the next turn when no cars would let them in. There are a decent number of situations where that will cost you 5-30 minutes of extra trip time<p>- you can disrupt traffic flow quite badly if you e.g. don&#x27;t pull up to the crosswalk, and out of the way of cars behind you, while waiting for pedestrians to cross on a turn (humans are also bad at this)<p>- it&#x27;s difficult to overstate how often cars&#x2F;vans&#x2F;trucks are double parked, changing the lanes available, forcing cars and bikes to improvise lanes. This isn&#x27;t an occasional thing, this is a 10x on a 15 minute trip thing