I've been riding Waymo in Austin for several months as an early. They service the central Austin area. In that area, they've generally been available within 5-10 minutes.

The routes it takes are optimized for safety, if you compare the time of arrival between Waymo and Google Maps it's typically 20-30% slower to get there.

Most of the rides have been without issue, but I have had some things happen:

- It hesitated in the middle of an unprotected left on Lamar and had a car honk at

- It used a bus-only lane.

- It stopped in the middle of the street to drop me off a couple of times, annoying other drivers.

- I've had it get stuck, and it called support to get it out.

Overall, they are great but imperfect right now; I'm sure they'll fix these as time goes on.