After 48 hours we haven't seen any sign people are using Waymo's service
Autonomous cars are a very difficult problem, more than I think most people anticipate. There's been a lot of tax breaks/money that goes into these programs too, and that's the tragic thing, since that funding should be going to known solutions: public transportation (trains, trams and express buses).<p>Even if you had a full-autonomous only Interstate where each car could be fully loaded and ride bumper-bumper at over 100kph, it wouldn't even begin reach the carrying capacity of currently existing fully autonomous subways systems like those in Singapore.<p><a href="https://penguindreams.org/blog/self-driving-cars-will-not-solve-the-transportation-problem/" rel="nofollow">https://penguindreams.org/blog/self-driving-cars-will-not-so...</a><p>These driverless cars would be great in Europe where they can solve the last leg problems in countries that already have strong public transport infrastructure. In places like America, the existing infrastructure has a long way to go before autonomous cars won't lead to the same gridlock as normal cars .. and an even longer way to go before they're ready for mass consumption.