<story><title>Waymo CEO Says Alphabet Unit Plans to Launch Driverless Car Service</title><url>https://www.marketwatch.com/story/waymo-ceo-says-driverless-car-service-coming-soon-2018-11-13</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>edoo</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m excited.  If you have been alive a substantial amount of time you are easily running a lifetime average of about 1-2% chance of dying in a car accident in your lifetime.  Things have gotten much safer the past couple decades so that number is somewhere around 0.75% or lower now.  I want to say being injured in a car accident is somewhere around 20-30% lifetime chance.  Cars are incredibly dangerous and this will save a ton of lives.</text></comment>
<story><title>Waymo CEO Says Alphabet Unit Plans to Launch Driverless Car Service</title><url>https://www.marketwatch.com/story/waymo-ceo-says-driverless-car-service-coming-soon-2018-11-13</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>This will be a huge milestone for the Waymo team. I had not thought they would get here until 2025 at least, so I guess I&amp;#x27;m overly cynical these days :-).&lt;p&gt;I hope that a successful launch in Phoenix will expand out to other locales because this capability is a huge win for those groups that would otherwise not be able to make these trips.&lt;p&gt;It is also remarkable that it is possible to replace a regular vehicle operated by a human as a livery service, with an incredibly complex machine and still make a business case out of it. That says a lot about how far computers have come in the last couple of decades.</text></comment>