I never thought I'd be so interested in a parking depot. Lol

The "time out" spot is where cars that need to be deep cleaned are sent, for example if someone spills something or damages the interior.

@NassimSYD

Ай бұрын

How do they know that a passenger has spilled something or damaged something inside the vehicle? Camera detects it and alerts Waymo team or what?

@zacharygrossman8316

29 күн бұрын

@@NassimSYD i believe they are inspected via camera feed after each ride by a real human... or it could be ai

@rosspatterson44

28 күн бұрын

No solar panels on that giant roof ??? Wasted opportunity

@zionismisterrorism8716

28 күн бұрын

@@rosspatterson44 Or wind turbines.

@andybrice2711

20 күн бұрын

Incorrect. That's where cars go if they've been naughty. To think about what they did.

Eating breakfast on a Sunday morning, watching a video about depots... Doesn't get better than this.

15 minutes flew by, amazing coverage and insights!!

@Mr_Battlefield

11 күн бұрын

( Fly-by ) or say "15 minutes of drone footage"

@RAMIRO0

5 күн бұрын

I don't want an autonomous vehicle because they're always crashing. However I still want one because they can pick up your groceries or fastfood curbside.

typically youtube recommends me tiny channels that have boring or low quality videos, but this is clearly an exception. nice work!!

@aaabbb-py5xd

Ай бұрын

What KZread have you been on?

@Bro-hx9yf

27 күн бұрын

@@aaabbb-py5xdhe’s not wrong, KZread does recommend shitty videos .

I'm ready for the heist movie that features these. 6 man job. Everyone has two cell phones. That's 12 getaway cars... We can do this.

Thank you so much for the detailed explanation. I used to drop off packages near the main location and I remember before when amazon had a warehouse and when waymo started buying that area. crazy how fast it changed and it’s a depot there now

They should have a Waymo always parked at the exit of the depot, so that it can get to customers faster rather than having to slowly navigate the entire parking lot. A standby car for the depot

@popcorn8153

Ай бұрын

Hear me out on this; we take the Waymo cars and replace their tires with metal wheels, then we create a track system that runs throughout an area, this can be a street level system very similar to a trolley. We remove the car engine and replace it with an electric powertrain that connects to an overhead wire that the waymo car can attach to via a telescopic boom. We create stops along the way similar to stations for a trolley. We also increase the capacity of the cars by extending them and adding more seating.

@25566

Ай бұрын

Since they're all on it should work like a taxi depot, cars are parked in line and when the first one leaves the other ones move 1 spot so there's always a car near the exit.

@puregero

Ай бұрын

@@25566 Oh yeah, that's smart, why are they parking the cars inefficiently like personal vehicles anyway

@zachb1706

Ай бұрын

@@popcorn8153trains are shit.

@jonathanbott87

3 күн бұрын

They likely (hopefully) are using an anticipated demand model where it keeps a distribution of cars around the service area without crowding. Uber in Chicago dispatches drivers to O'Hare from the waiting lot before they're assigned a ride. It's based on demand and minimizes the delay due to getting from the lot to the terminal.

Honestly what a fantastic video. I’m in Australia, & the thing of a driverless taxi is crazy. For a small channel I think you’ll expand good. Your quality is very good.

It's only when you see the Waymo depot in operation that it really highlights how far ahead Waymo are in providing a RoboTaxi service than Tesla with their FSD. Even if Tesla's FSD was capable there is so much more to providing a taxi service other than the automated driving. Waymo have made so many advances such as improving their interaction with emergency responders, allowing the emergency services to geofence an area from Waymo vehicles and having Waymo remote operators take over or give advice, and to train the emergency responders on how to interact or take control of a Waymo vehicle. There is a big difference going from an always supervised vehicle to one that has no driver. If a Tesla FSD disengages, the driver takes over, for a Tesla RoboTaxi after a disengagement there would be no one to take control, and that part of the service needs to be addressed before they can be let loose on the road. Waymo and Tesla FSD are often compared to one another when really there is no comparison. There is very little that Tesla FSD can do that Waymo can't, while there would seem to be a stack of things that Waymo can do, that Tesla FSD can't.

@TUBESPECIFIC1

22 күн бұрын

Tesla's robotaxi is to be unveiled in August. It's going to be the first car without operator controls such as a steering wheel. In the meantime, we're still waiting for robots to drive, clean, and work like slaves while speaking perfect English.

Thanks for sharing this. Great video, great production values!

The coolest thing about these cars is you don't have to worry about tipping

@constanttraveler

28 күн бұрын

Great comment!

this is awesome ! thanks for showing this

wow kevin! loved the way you walk through the video and the audio , video , content quality is top notch !! loved the aerial view ... Hope to see you big !! cant believe 15 mins went by soo fast!

i guess waymo is keeping the ipace line alive.

@nguyep4

Ай бұрын

Probably mean paying a premium for that.

@KevinChen5

Ай бұрын

I heard a rumor they own a majority of all ipaces 😂

@boostav

12 күн бұрын

@@KevinChen5 Do you know what the power output on those dc fast chargers is?

@KevinChen5

11 күн бұрын

@@boostav the ones in Arizona are 60 kW (check out JJRicks interview with someone who works in Waymo depot). Don’t know about these.

@boostav

8 күн бұрын

@@KevinChen5 Thank you

Really cool. Great narration as well.

Been looking for a video like this!!

That is interesting and informative! I have many questions about Waymo and this is a good start to understanding the technology 👍🏾

Very cool, thanks for doing this!

Terrific job, Kevin

Thanks, was curious about this.

I live down the street from this depot, it's really cool to watch sometimes.

Great video Kevin. I agree with your guesses at about 13:00 on data swapping going on during the trunk visits by the Waymo staff. I'd say the main reason for the disk swapping vs. wireless data transmission is speed (and maybe cost). Historically wired data transfers occurred at least an order of magnitude faster by wire than wireless. That ratio may have gone down somewhat recently with new WI-Fi and cell standards, but we don't know what they are doing with this data. If they just retain it briefly, then they might not even transfer it off the swapped drives Instead, they might just schedule the drives to be reused once the data was retained long enough to be sure there wasn't a big problem, like an accident that was reported somewhat later. BTW, two possibilities for the wired connection are USB or Ethernet. I believe most (if not all) of the 40 sensors (28 cameras, 6 radars, and 6 lidars) are networked to the Waymo computer in the trunk via one or more Ethernet switches, also located in the trunk. I believe the data drives you are talking about are external to the rest of the Waymo computer and either are connected via Ethernet (like a NAS unit) or as an external drive using USB or eSATA. Maybe some former Waymo or Cruise employees can comment on this, since those working with this onboard storage (probably mostly to archive the sensor data) would know best which drive types (although I'd guess big SSDs) and which wired communications (Ethernet, USB, or SATA?) are getting used in the latest self-driving systems like Waymo's.

@PangDaDriver

Ай бұрын

I understand that Waymo vehicles have a mobile storage device similar to that of Synology

@findlisa5

Ай бұрын

@@PangDaDriver Yeah, that sounds right. I'd just guess they are using SSDs inside that NAS unit for the speed and reliability (especially regarding vibration) over spinning disks as used in the old Synology NAS units and even over the hybrid drives. Yeah, I guess that means all the Waymo computer peripherals (beside the car's system like steering, throttle, brakes, and the Waymo displays which must be wired by DisplayPort or HDMI) are connected by Ethernet, maybe all on one switch in the trunk.

@AZaqZaqProduction

11 күн бұрын

They almost certainly keep all the data somewhere, offloading it to a data center at least. Whether that's by having a courier take the hard drives and just ship them right to the data center or by transmitting the data remotely is anyone's guess.

I'm willing to bet that the reason the cars use hazard lights and drive agonizingly slow is due to insurance guidelines. I notice similar activity at our local amazon depot.

@KevinChen5

15 күн бұрын

Thanks, really good point about insurance

never had issue with waymo in arizona. like it

@DerekDavis213

Ай бұрын

Too bad that 99.99% of America does not have Waymo service.

@petecoventry6858

Ай бұрын

@@DerekDavis213 agreed but when it does it's going to be awesome.

@DerekDavis213

Ай бұрын

@@petecoventry6858 Awesome? Why? Today, you can call for an Uber or Lyft and they will pick you up in minutes. Robo-taxis are not needed, and nobody is asking for them.

@xploration1437

Ай бұрын

@@petecoventry6858lol, Waymo will go bankrupt before that.

@Ample17

Ай бұрын

The approach of Waymo is not Scalable. Tesla robo taxi will be cover the US within the next 12-24 Months though. ​@@petecoventry6858

Awesome video of behind the scenes

Great coverage. I'm looking forward to when they get to my city.

Good work Kevin

I love the idea of the naughty corner 😂

Great video, Kevin. Greetings from Canada. I took one of these while on vaca in SF recently. It was very cool ride. I wondered where the depots were. Now I know. James.

My first thought was that they should have induction charging so that a human didn't have to plug them in. But since a human needs to check the car to make sure it's clean and ready, he might as well plug it in as well. It takes a second human visit to unplug it to put it back in service.

@boyangsong3091

Ай бұрын

For smaller charging station with no human, inductive charging will still be needed. Then we can increase the number of robotaxi charging stations and spread them out.

@seancopley499

Ай бұрын

@@boyangsong3091 theres no way induction charging will come even close to price competition with gas, allready hybrids in California are winning the price war. Induction losses would mean you would be better off driving a 16mpg dump truck

@spiderbite7849

Ай бұрын

They could have internal cameras to detect spills, dirt and lost items. Surely they aim to be completely autonomous at some point.

@theotheleo6830

Ай бұрын

Induction charging isn't as efficient as wired charging. If they want to reduce the human aspect, they could build robot charging stations. About a month ago, I saw a video of a robot gas station.

@szymex22

Ай бұрын

They could also use some kind of pantograph charging system like those electric busses have. Induction is very inefficient.

These are so cool

Very interesting.

Nice!

Brilliant

no matter where you want to go,your destination will be hell.😂😂😂😂

Great stuff! So silly that the autonomus vehicle service hasnt figured out how to automate the security gates lol

@VMYeahVN

Ай бұрын

I don't think it's a matter of not having figured it out. Automated security gates have existed for a long time already. I think having them be manned is more so a security/safety measure.

I see them throughout the day and night in SF zooming around with no one driving-LOL---now I know where they go to get serviced. Cool.

Great video. Engrossing. I can't wait for Waymo to be available in West LA. Waymo is multiple times safer than driven vehicles including Lyft & Uber.

@darkwing.17

Күн бұрын

Well, I’m off the waitlist and I was able to use Waymo within Century City and Westwood.

it is amazing

Also, there's a charging station right in downtown on Jackson Street that I always see them stop(about 8 cars) at and a live person cleans them while they are being charged-FYI

gread video, thank you!

3:15 There is a huge statue of a woman lying on her side on top of the building just on the left side. I noticed it from the freeway, and it seems that the amusing statue is on the top of a building inside the Waymo parking lot. I would be curious to know more about this strange statue story.

@seanhacking9749

Ай бұрын

Burning Man art installation, I guess they found a good place for the public to enjoy it. It's amazing metal work, especially up close and illuminated at night.

Waymo Gone Wild

I assume the slow driving in the lot is a safety measure for the people working there.

Weird seeing Waymo do it's thing on its own around in the parking lot. We need Waymo here in the Orange county, Ca area

The Waymo driverless cars seem to be better drivers than many humans. Maybe people who lose the drivers license for being bad drivers or DUI could be ordered by the court that they may only use driverless cars.

We have those in Las Vegas how to call them for a ride

Seems like the language we use for AI entities is just wrong. It's not "as they please", it's "as needed" or "as necessary".

凄い時代ですね😮

Small contribution to say thanks

Gotta love all the grafitti

I think there may partially be a safety speed limit in the parking lot - any loading zone at Amazon is signed at 5mph.

Thanks 👍🏿😁👍🏻🇨🇦🇺🇸🇵🇭

Wait do u get your money back after you cancel your trip?

I don't think you could hide in the back seats, the rider support camera can probably see what you're doing so it wouldn't be effective

@phillyphil1513

Ай бұрын

yeah they know when you're in there as the cars are equipped with 2-way Audio/Video, so they can talk to you and you can talk to them. source: i just talked to them from the back seat on 4/18 out in Phoenix.

@trektn

Ай бұрын

@@phillyphil1513 in some of these videos I can see a couple of infrared LEDs blink towards the front and I assume it's lighting up the person in the car when they drop in to see what's going on, but no rider support call or anything, so it doesn't have to be two way unless they also record audio as well

@phillyphil1513

Ай бұрын

@@trektn re: "so it doesn't have to be two way..." repeat: it's 2-way cause i just talked to them from the backseat of a Waymo out in Phoenix on South 52nd Street, date: 4/18.

@trektn

Ай бұрын

​@@phillyphil1513 repeat: I've seen the camera ir leds blink in some of the videos so it's possible they're tabbing in without you needing to talk to them

We need Waymo Indian guys(AI) with simulators

Cool, can you show the remote location in India and the workers who are co-piloting?

Feels like I'm doing research for a GTA mission

Feels like watching ant colonies

sick HTK throw up

Just realized they use Jaguar EVs.. seems like a kinda strange choice hahaha

interesting I wonder how these cars are cleaned

Not confident like Tesla FSD. How much does all that equipment cost? How reliable is it? Is it redundant or single point of failure?

You do understand that GOOGLE doesnt give a fig about people needing rides or the taxi business right? The purpose of all these WAYMO cars is that they are all test mules. Each is testing the software & the sensors and each is involved with perfecting the self driving tech. Teslas FSD they are so proud of is rated by the NTSB as a 2 out of 5 while the WAYMO system is the most advanced of them all at a 4.5 blowing TESLAS FSD out of the water. Once they perfect this tech, GOOGLE will be offering their tech for sale to car companies & simi truck companies whoever has the $$$$. They intend to corner the self driving tech market. And they are very close. !

@constanttraveler

28 күн бұрын

This is an insider, astute comment.

I find it interesting that Google went with Jaguar and not the Autonomous leader in Cars like Honda.

Cars are so slow in the depot area due to so many people working around. It was programmed that way.

0:54 why turn right first. There was a lot of space to just turn left

This is how i feel when i watch the beamng ai cars trying to do things

Who knows, maybe there are humans in those depots who are driving the cars remotely. Or those humans are from some third-party countries like the Philippines, India, etc.

@jonathanbott87

3 күн бұрын

The parking seems too perfectly aligned for a human but I'm sure there are times there's overrides.

Stack push stack pop 😅

There’s actually one more depot not in this video. 350 Pacific Avenue in SF

Do you know if those chargers are Superchargers or standard 6 kW to 12 kW chargers?

@StefanNorberg

Ай бұрын

Judging by the look of them (size) they definitely look like fast chargers, and slow charging doesn't make any sense. These i-paces are not great at DC fast charging can only take about 90kW peak afaik.

@techied

Ай бұрын

Based on the size, these are definitely DC chargers. "Superchargers" are Tesla's DC chargers, and so therefore these are not Superchargers

Can you get in the drivers seat and take over ?

With three depots, the last one looks to handle at least 40 cars, can we speculate there are at least 100 cars operating in SF?

Is spray paint free in the US or something? What a mess…

Actual autonomy.

Isn’t that the normal speed for a parking lot? In Germany at least, it needs to be at “walking speed” so about 4-7 km/h

@user-ln7of9gs4s

Ай бұрын

5 mph around cars, walking speed. Unfortunately some people have low IQs and speed.

@robertyoung8615

Ай бұрын

Yes though it is rare anyone here drives at that speed, about double is what is more common in a flat parking lot.

@zachb1706

Ай бұрын

Sure, no one follows it though

@lwilton

9 күн бұрын

In the US parking lots are usually private property rather than public, so generally government-mandated traffic laws do not apply. Owner-posted traffic speed in a parking lot is usually around 10 to 15 MPH, or 16-24 KPH. You are still required to be cautious of pedestrians, vehicles backing out, and the like, so in busy areas the driving speed is somewhere between stopped and say 5 KPH. Traffic speed postings in the US (not necessarily actual traffic speed) are generally faster than in European cities, except on main highways: Parking lot: 10-15 MPH Residential area: 25 MPH Business district: 35 MPH Main street with limited on-street parking: 45-50 MPH Highway speed: 55-65 MPH In some fairly rare cases 70 MPH on designated stretches of some freeways. This roughly corresponds to: Parking lot: 16-24 KPH Residential: 40 KPH Business: 56 KPH Main street: 72-80 Highway: 88-104 Freeway: 88-104, sometimes to 112.

@jonathanbott87

3 күн бұрын

​@@robertyoung8615yeah, but robots don't "cheat", and it's probably a safety requirement (OSHA or insurance)

4:33 Not a Focus, but Escape/Kuga

This is so bizarre

waymo has a loooooong way to go. just took my first ride in one in Phoenix... ride was ok but it took 1 min to take off at a green light and we got honked at by everyone

bro had the balls to fly over the goverment. lucky you not in trouble

Interesting there is no EV Charging (Opportunity Charging) at the first parking lot. Their intention is to only have them wait there briefly and they wait until later to charge 🔋

@jonathanbott87

3 күн бұрын

They probably try to maintain a distribution across the city and not crowd if they're underutilized

Of course the autonomous driving industry should get better. It's erratic at best and a danger to other vehicles. There is no substitute for competent and attentive drivers.

I think I saw a total of 5 to 10 people at the site. While the tech is impressive, I am afraid this is going to be another case where big tech firms dominate more of our life.

😁👍🏻(Waymo) 😁👍🏻(⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

but what happens to the drivers of taxis now they no longer needed?

@zachb1706

Ай бұрын

They get different jobs

This is the BlackBerry product before iPhone came online.

米国などは土地が広いのでスペースが取れますね、回転式の立体駐車場とかにすると数１００台オーダーで格納できると思う

So they just sit there idling? That’s pretty bad why not have an idle mode and internal battery?

@zachb1706

Ай бұрын

They’re electric are they not? Idling doesn’t use electricity

@jonathanbott87

3 күн бұрын

​@@zachb1706well it uses some, they things are spinning

This it the most boring and interesting video ever.

Is waymo cheaper than uber? Or same?

Just because the WAYMO cars dont drive like you does not mean it is wrong, it just drives differently. Maybe your driving style is wrong. Maybe you should strive to drive more like WAYMO. !

When can i drink n drive

I'm disappointed in how painfully slow and inefficient they are in the parking lots lol, would've thought such a controlled environment would be their best performance area where they could drive closer and faster to each other since it's safe to assume the random variables of the public aren't there. Do these cars "talk" with each other in some sort of cross networking setup? They should be able to coordinate amongst themselves to maneuver and avoid each other instead of relaying only on sensors like they have to on public streets.

@jonathanbott87

3 күн бұрын

Likely a safety limitation (OSHA or insurance?), but admittedly probably based on human drivers and not yet adapted

Let's see these cars in a Midwest snow storm

@user-ln7of9gs4s

Ай бұрын

You probably won’t. You dislike the technology?

@robertyoung8615

Ай бұрын

I'm sure there will still be a place for human drivers. Much like there was a draw for a long time for people to keep going to grocery stores where they had someone still take your groceries out for you. That market share will obviously be much less than it is now but there will be a place and during things like major weather events they will probably thrive.

@zachb1706

Ай бұрын

Because humans are so much better… These cars can see through snow so likely will fare better

Can waymo cars detect a flat tire?

Or you could pay people and give someone a job!?!

저거 나중에 충전도 완전히 알아서 혼자서 다하고, 나중에 로봇이 또 청소하고 관리해주고 인간은 단 1명도 없어도 알아서 돌아가겠지? 그럼 가격은 더 싸질꺼야.

excellent video as i just got back from spending 8 days out in Phoenix (4/13 - 4/20) testing Waymo's tech first hand and i declare it 98% efficient, yes it's that good. 😎 like i've been saying for some time, Elon and the Fanboys (sounds like the name of band right...? 😄) need to just SHUT THEIR CAKEHOLES once and for all regarding the "scam" of FSD, because the camera approach has a SNOWBALL'S CHANCE IN HELL of achieving the accuracy of the Waymo strategy of "Military Spec Sensor Fusion"... yeah anyone forward deployed in the Army or Navy will recognize those sensor arrays rival what's fitted to an AH-64 Apache. i mean you can take one of those Jaguars and friggin' go HUNT FOR SUBMARINES (speaking hyperbolically) such is the $$ dollar value $$ of the electronics package "festooning" each of those cars.

@badhairday_247

Ай бұрын

There’s billions of intelligent camera based systems driving vehicles right now - called humans. You are obviously not keeping up on Tesla’s progress. Go have an unbiased look at their latest version.

@phillyphil1513

Ай бұрын

@@badhairday_247 re: "There’s billions of intelligent camera based systems driving vehicles right now - called humans." wrong answer kid, Humans are NOT camera based. you've been lied to by Elon and you have to face it (yes facing this will be unpleasant).

@phillyphil1513

Ай бұрын

re: "You are obviously not keeping up on Tesla’s progress." and you are obviously not keeping up with Waymo progress despite looking DIRECTLY AT IT in the video...👀 with the latest "Supervised" FSD (V12.3.x) just released mid-April, you are still NOT sitting in the back seat (again "Supervised), whereas with Waymo V1 you are not only sitting in the back seat...? but they have "Multi-Robot" Depots in Silicon Valley (Elon's Home Turf) and are already in business in and Charging Fares...🤑 YOU'VE BEEN BEATEN...!!!🤭

@investorsguidetothegalaxy

Ай бұрын

Waymo cars are very expensive, Teslas just with the cameras, way less. We will see if they can come up with cheaper models.But now, they work very well with radars/lidars. But not profitable. On 8th of August we will see tesla robotaxi and how they compare with waymo.

@phillyphil1513

Ай бұрын

@@investorsguidetothegalaxy re: "Teslas just with the cameras, way less." great but if it doesn't work to the level of the competition (and it doesn't) then what's the point...? oh and let us not forget that TIME is also "money" (sucks to be him) so what Elon has to do is account for the "expense" of spending the last 8 years MIS-DIRECTING valuable resources towards a dead-end product.