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As far as I can tell, that literally didn’t happen. Instead, they both got approved for a major expansion this year and have no new restrictions on any future expansions.
CPUC approved a major expansion this year, some local agencies raised issues and called for a rehearing, and CPUC reheard it and approved it again. There’s a member of the state legislature that has proposed a bill changing the process for such expansions to a less favorable one in the past who talked about maybe reintroducing it this session in response, but nothing like that passed that I can find.
https://waymo.com/blog/2024/11/waymo-one-open-to-all-in-los-...
> One of the world’s first fully-driverless taxi firms has been blocked from expanding its business in California, where several of its vehicles have recently been involved in accidents.
> Waymo, which is the driverless car division of Google parent Alphabet, currently operates in parts of San Francisco. Attempts to roll-out its robotaxi service to Sunnyvale and Los Angeles were suspended for up to 120 days following a ruling by the California Public Utilities Commission’s Consumer Protection and Enforcement Division (CPED).
Then there's the federal investigation for Arizona crashes: https://www.azfamily.com/2024/05/15/feds-investigating-eight...
Your cars honking at each other in their own parking lot, at 4AM: https://youtu.be/Xvs0K1LG1ac?t=15
Your cars getting confused by a traffic cone: https://youtu.be/fMFzs0NZ_Mc?t=55
Your cars barely able to make a lane change under the most ideal circumstances: https://youtu.be/spw176TZ7-8?t=95
Unable to respond to the instructions of a police officer and it taking a minute and a half for employees to manually control the car: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ix98jFVyGxs
Blocking a fire truck: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eZMXVaF7Bj8
Breaking the law and getting pulled over by police for driving in the oncoming lane: https://youtu.be/7W-VneUv8Gk?t=28
One of your cars cutting off another one of your own cars in a wildly unsafe, illegal maneuver:
One of your cars running a red light: https://youtu.be/CHEtQ3Egt0c?t=244
...and then a few minutes later, illegally entering an intersection and stopping, then continuing to block the intersection because someone made a u-turn 30 feet in front of it while it was stopped: https://youtu.be/CHEtQ3Egt0c?t=474
And here's the icing on the cake: your company harassing reporters, calling the police on them because reporters were following it: https://youtu.be/spw176TZ7-8?t=170
Why do computers have to be perfect but it’s perfectly legal for humans to kill someone if the sun was in their eyes?
Make a list of those stuff for humans every day and it would be gigabytes of records. Almost all goes unpunished.
Reality is "because humans can take responsibility for their actions". And it seems the way our society is built, we'd rather have individuals take responsibility than question the system
But we see bad driving whenever we are out ambulating in the streets, anyway, even in a world with vehicles that are almost always operated by humans.
In this world we have today, illegal things happen on the road all of the time.
(And we've always seen it, at least in quasi-modern times. It isn't something recent. I'm absolutely certain that we saw it in the horse-driven era, too; we just didn't have much in the way of pocket supercomputers back then to record it with.)
Saying it can and will kill innocent people when this hasn’t happened in fifteen years doesn’t pass the smell test.
So, the idea that they are fleeing to Japan because they’be faced some kind of permanent, or even significant, barrier to expansion in California is wildly incompatible with the facts.
> How are things going in Arizona? So badly they pulled their fleet (before state regulators could) and a federal investigation was announced right after:
They didn’t pull their fleet, and the article you posted to support this doesn't say they did. It says they did a safety recall to fix an apparent software error; the service is still in operation, and the implication that they ran away in fear of state regulatory action is as baseless as the idea that they have been blocked from further expansion in California. For someone who is accusing everyone who disagrees with you of being an astroturfer or dupe of Waymo propaganda, you seem to be very fond of promoting arguments that twist what is in the notionally-supporting sources to the limit of what would be plausible taking them entirely out of context,and which rely on ignoring every other piece of information ine existence, as if you were not presenting good faith arguments but desperately constructing anti-Waymo propaganda of the same type you accuse your opponents of doing in support of Waymo.
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