Daylen Yang

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[Daylen Yang @daylenyang]

sf to san mateo via the US-101 freeway. @Waymo, rider-only

[Daylen Yang @daylenyang]

@profitandlost @kalo_nazih i usually take it a lil easier if my recovery is in the red

[Daylen Yang @daylenyang]

@alyssakrejmas laundromat

[Daylen Yang @daylenyang]

@laurenlself D is the only correct answer

[Sam Sheffer @samsheffer]

omni continues to blow my mind

(left original / right generated)

waymo looks sick in matte black

[Daylen Yang @daylenyang]

@Mike_Pevzner @Waymo definitely shotgun. you can lean back

[Daylen Yang @daylenyang]

@ky__zo No. Mics are off unless you’re on a call with Rider Support (in which case it is very clear that you’re on a call)

[Daylen Yang @daylenyang]

i love the art waymos

[Daylen Yang @daylenyang]

ok this is actually pretty sick

Prompt: Based on everything you know about me generate an image I can use as my wallpaper for my laptop that represents who I uniquely am. Do not overcomplicate it visually. Abstract representation is fine. No words.

[Dan Woods @danveloper]

Try this prompt in ChatGPT:

"Based on everything you know about me generate an image I can use as my wallpaper for my laptop that represents who I uniquely am. Do not overcomplicate it visually. Abstract representation is fine. No words."

[Daylen Yang @daylenyang]

new yorker visits san francisco 😅

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

“It's a little freaky not to have a driver,” says @AndersonCooper as he rides in a Waymo robotaxi. https://t.co/bZB4nh9ItX

[Daylen Yang @daylenyang]

Waymo's Perception system, which uses lidar, radar, and camera, sees even in extreme lighting conditions. If the headlights on this car were to go out, we would still detect all the people. Check out this side by side of a camera image and our detections overlaid on top.

[Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc]

Are autonomous vehicles (self-driving cars) “less able to detect people of color”? That’s what I read in The Atlantic this weekend, in Xochitl Gonzalez’s “People Who Don’t Like People Are Making All of Our Decisions.”

It appears to be entirely false.

[Daylen Yang @daylenyang]

waymo avoiding reckless street racers on the I-10

[Daylen Yang @daylenyang]

@antoniogm It knows you’ve exited and will move on to the next trip

[Daylen Yang @daylenyang]

@Thomas_Tao_1 @jeremyphoward @pangram slop?

[Andy Boenau @Boenau]

According to Waymo's published data, their technology is preventing injuries & deaths.

My view is that if this is true, and I have yet to see a debunking of their data, then we safety advocates should be welcoming the technology.

If Waymo is lying or manipulating data, then write about how they're doing that! Instead the analysis in this recent Streetsblog article is limited to "the authors of the Waymo safety report work for Waymo!"

FFS, are we going to toss out all the NYCDOT reports about how their bike lanes improve safety? Are we going to toss out the decongestion pricing reports because they were written by the transit employees who want transit to succeed? I hope not!

Here's what we've been told by Waymo:
✅ 170.7 million rider-only miles driven without a human driver (equivalent to roughly 200 human lifetimes of driving).

✅ 92% fewer serious injury or worse crashes compared to human drivers in the same cities and conditions (0.02 incidents per million miles vs. 0.22 for humans; 35 fewer such crashes).

✅ 83% fewer airbag-deployment crashes in any vehicle (230 fewer crashes).

✅ 82% fewer injury-causing crashes overall (544 fewer crashes).

✅ 92% fewer pedestrian injury crashes compared to human benchmarks.

✅ 85% fewer cyclist injury crashes.

✅ 81% fewer motorcycle injury crashes.

✅ No fatalities caused by the Waymo Driver across these 170.7 million driverless miles.

✅ At current scale (over 4 million miles per week), Waymo prevents 1 serious injury crash every 8 days.

If data is manipulated or false, then report on that. Otherwise you come out looking like someone who only likes safety benefits that aren't shaped like a car. It's going to set back Vision Zero advocacy in states across the country that are on the fence about allowing autonomous vehicle operations.

Waymo does have a profit motive.
So do corporations who build homes, distribute food, host concerts, publish books, and make medicine. Not all of them are the same and some are downright awful.

Always challenge motives and incentives.

What's interesting about Waymo is that they have a financial incentive in being the absolute safest form of motorized vehicle on the street. They'll lose business if their software is just as dangerous as an average human driver. But that in no way means streets must be overtaken by motor vehicles (theirs or any other brand).

What do we want? 92% fewer pedestrian injury crashes compared to humans? 85% fewer cyclist injury crashes? Then come up with a way to let AVs into cities across the country.

[“paula” @paularambles]

how it feels when your waymo’s on the freeway

[Daylen Yang @daylenyang]

opening the doors of the @Waymo Ojai 👀

[reed @reed]

public rides in four new cities today. @waymo is accelerating

[Daylen Yang @daylenyang]

@anothercohen @shaig driverless testing just started. accepting riders soon!

[Waymo @Waymo]

Autonomous mode activated, now in Nashville. ✨We’re going fully autonomous—meaning no human driver at the wheel, and one step closer to serving riders. Get updates at https://t.co/FpAUnlDkCm

[Daylen Yang @daylenyang]

@poorrichard jaguars are the majority of our fleet right now, and we’re starting to roll out the Ojai, and later the Ioniq

[Daylen Yang @daylenyang]

🧑‍🍳

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

New Hyundai Ioniq5 Waymo in SF