[marcosdumay]

It can just mean that nobody though about flooded streets, what's way more reasonable than it seems because of the birthday paradox.

But that also means they need a long time to adapt to a new situation. That may be very bad depending on how fine grained a situation is defined, or it may mean nothing and in a few months they'll be back without problems.

[thrownthatway]

> It can just mean that nobody though about flooded streets

No one who works for them thought of flooded roads.

That’s reassuring.

[onlyrealcuzzo]

They were only in Arizona for a long time...

[forgetfreeman]

Assuming the rest of the continent is like Arizon also seems comforting...

[onlyrealcuzzo]

Well fortunately the rest of the planet is a lot more similar to Arizona than Venus or the moon of the bottom of the Ocean, and they're already doing quite well in like 25 other markets, so...

[forgetfreeman]

~80% of the population of the US lives east of the Mississippi, where road flooding is a dirt common event. Waymo's been smart so far to cherry pick markets that cater to their vehicles obvious limitations. That doesn't exempt them from criticism for failing to account for routine conditions in new areas they've chosen to move into. Additionally "doing quite well" is incoherent given it's been 17 years and Waymo is still unprofitable.