Today is such a proud milestone for our @Waymo team as we launch our first-ever national brand campaign. And awesome to have it air during the first US World Cup game tonight in LA!!! ๐บ๐ธ ๐ต๐พ โฝ
With this campaign, we want to open up a conversation about who we are doing this for... It's about our riders, the drivers with whom we share the road, cyclists, pedestrians, and the communities we serve. We build this technology and grow this service not because humans arenโt enough, but because to us, theyโre everything.
This campaign is an invitation to connect with our mission on a deeper, more human level. And as we look to the future, we want to hear from you: raise your hand and let us know where you want to see the Waymo Driver next.
๐คฉ A massive thank you to our phenomenal team for bringing this vision to life with so much creativity, care, heart, and sleepless nights. ๐ ๐ ๐ Watch the film below and let me know your thoughts. ๐
This aged horrifically.
California politicians dunked on Elon and helped drive out SpaceX, Tesla jobs, engineers, suppliers, and the tax base.
Now SpaceX is headed for a $1.75T IPO.
โMessage receivedโ may be the most expensive political own-goal in California history.
It's been a month since @CMCharlesAllen introduced his bill to bring AVs to DC โ and DC Council hasn't moved forward at all.
At another hearing last week, CM Nadeau said an AV hearing is "months" away.
Local supporters of AVs are now writing to @councilofdc to move forward. ๐งต
That feels about right.
If every driver was as good as Waymo, then America's longevity gap with peer nations would shrink by 9%.
Almost 10% of the entire gap is due to bad drive of the sort that Waymo, Robotaxi, Zoox, etc. seem poised to eliminate.
Great moments in unions expressing concern about air quality in CEQA history:
1. New A's Stadium taking over a port
2. New Whole Foods in a vacant Best Buy
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State worker unions threatening lawsuit under California Environmental Quality Act over the governor's return-to-office mandate: โPutting 90,000 people on the road and pumping that much carbon into the air has an environmental impact."
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SITUATION ANALYSIS: Approximately 40,000 Americans die in road crashes every year, over 100 deaths per day.
Cities including DC, New York, Boston, and Minneapolis have either blocked or slow-walked autonomous vehicle deployment despite mounting evidence that AVs dramatically reduce serious crashes (Waymo's 100M-mile safety data showed 91% fewer serious injury or fatal crashes vs human drivers).
@slotkinjr (Vice Chair of Neurosurgery at Geisinger) and @EricTopol (cardiologist and Scripps professor) argues this is no longer a tech story. It's a public health crisis being blocked by bureaucratic inertia and special interests.
"I'm a practicing neurosurgeon, so I have blood on my hands ... blood of our children ... every week from car crashes. We have 100-plus Americans die every day. That's a 737 dropping out of the sky every day. If we had a 737 dropping out of the sky every day, we would ground the air fleet until we had solved this problem. But somehow we've accepted that."
"The data is really, really strong that we need to smartly advance this technology now, but it's hitting roadblocks in a lot of areas."