Logan Kilpatrick completes 36 Waymo autonomous vehicle trips

@OfficialLoganK Oh wow…welcome back

First Waymo pickup from SFO airport. First freeway in a Waymo. 👌

@OfficialLoganK Try Tesla with FSD v14, you will feel another level of future.

@OfficialLoganK @reed Sometimes the prices are just too much for me here in LA. $30 yesterday to go 1.1 miles at 5:30 pm vs $24 on lyft black and $16 on Uber black.

@TheRideshareGuy @EelcoHooge71137 @OfficialLoganK turns out people really like direct flights, nike shoes, and waymo rides

@OfficialLoganK Nice! We don't get Waymo out in the east coast 😭

@EelcoHooge71137 @OfficialLoganK @reed Riders are paying / willing to pay a 30% premium to Uber and Lyft per obi data.

@OfficialLoganK My favorite call was the one where I watched you sprint to it

@OfficialLoganK Please resume improve Google Antigravity app

@OfficialLoganK future vibes hit different after double-digit rides

but consistency is what keeps it from being a novelty

@TheRideshareGuy @OfficialLoganK @reed interesting it's more expensive. i guess while they have not scaled yet they are competing on novelty rather than cost? eventually there would have to be a cost advantage though no? or are Uber drivers structurally making that much negative income?

@OfficialLoganK

Waymo’s own support page confirms their WAVs are human-driven, not autonomous. For full-time Group 3 power wheelchair users (non-transferable, ~300-400lb medical devices), this means no independent access to the “future” you describe.

Since you are a product lead, two extremely simple questions that should have extraordinarily simple and straightforward answers before Waymo continues scaling:

- When does Waymo plan to deploy autonomous wheelchair-accessible vehicles that accommodate large medically necessary Group 3 users without transfer/folding at scale used independently in all markets?

- What’s the current timeline and engineering roadmap for this?

cc: @Waymo

@TreyTaylorCEO @OfficialLoganK I meant DC Metro area

@minchoi @OfficialLoganK Waymo is in Atlanta

@OfficialLoganK only thing missing is the airport

@OfficialLoganK I use https://apps.apple.com/app/id6754620049 Hackney to price rides across Lyft, uber and Waymo.

Especially late at night after music events Waymo becomes comparable in price and I often don’t mind paying a little premium since you don’t have to tip and love having my music and privacy.

@reed @TheRideshareGuy @EelcoHooge71137 @OfficialLoganK It’s crazy that people don’t understand that high prices (assuming high utilization) is extremely bullish for Waymo

@OfficialLoganK where were you living?

@OfficialLoganK No nervous close calls at all yet? Nothing like that here in Aus yet. Must be very cool.