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record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
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Prediction Held up
Waymo Co-CEO: Gen-6 Custom Robotaxi Is Launching in 2026
“It's, you know, we're not, it's not open to the, you know, the public yet. But, you know, I took a ride in it the other day, fully autonomously, and that's coming this year.”
Assertion Supported
Waymo runs 3,000 cars delivering 500k rides and 4M miles weekly
“We have about 3000 cars on the roads. We're doing about half a million rides per week. It, that translates to about, you know, over four million fully autonomous miles per week. We are operating in a fully autonomous mode in 11 cities in the US and 10 of those…”
Assertion Supported
Dolgov: Waymo vehicles rely on cameras, lidars, and radars for 360-degree vision
“We use three different sensing modalities. There's cameras, there's lighters or lasers, and there are radars. You know, those are the primary ones. There are, you know, also microphones, directional, you know, microphone arrays, but those are the primary three…”
Assertion Supported
Dolgov: Waymo requires zero real-time cloud connectivity for driving inference
“Nothing real-time in the cloud, and there are some things that can happen, you know, in the cloud, But they're not required.”
Prediction Held up
Dolgov: Waymo Gen-6 Driver Will Expand to Hyundai Ioniq in 2026
“And then we're gonna put the six generation Waymo driver on other vehicle forms like the Hyundai Ionic that's coming, you know later in the year.”
Assertion Supported
Waymo co-CEO: Cleaning and charging at depots remain manual processes
“If it is, so cleaning today is a manual process, right? So it'll get flagged in the car, you know, we have fleet management systems, say, hey, you know, car, you know, number, you know, 300, So many needs cleaning and we'll actually on the sensor dome, we're a…”