In June, Tesla was appointed to launch the Robotaxi service in Austin, and the bumper went to the abundance with Waymo.
Austin is the first city to plan Tesla to test its technology with consumers. Waymo -backed by Alphabet has launched the Robotaxi service in the city in March after the service has already been launched in three other cities over the past five years.
Before launch, Elon Musk took many excavations in Waymo, including joking during the automotive profit call earlier this month, cost Waymo “Money”.
“I do not see anyone able to compete with Tesla at the present time,” Musk said.
Meanwhile, the former CEO of Waymo, John Kravikk, accused Tesla of all the conversation and there is no procedure.
He said in a statement sent via Business Insider:
Austin’s launch from Tesla will celebrate a decisive chapter in a debate that has lasted for years on the best self -driving training methods and whether success will come from Tesla’s large fluctuations or gradual publishing in Tesla.
Take a look at how to compare Tesla and Waymo when it comes to independent driving technology.
Tesla did not respond to a request for comment. A Waymo spokesman referred BI to previous blog publications on the company’s early ride and the continuation of the test in cities throughout the United States.
an exercise
Tesla and Waymo have radically different approaches to training artificial intelligence systems on self -driving. Tesla relied on a vision based approach that uses a group of eight cameras and the minimum reliance on external sensors.
Musk said that Tesla began to remove Lidar Sensitive devices from test vehicles in 2021, Expensive technology description “crutch”. The auto maker has a vehicle equipped with a radar and radar called the Earth’s reality machine that you use for training purposes, but only for rare or unusual driving scenarios, BI were previously reported.
A spokesman for the company said that Waymo is equipped with five Lidar sensors, six radars and 29 cameras that help their programs to move in its environment. The company says that its next generation driver will have a reduced and cheapest sensor collection.
Before the publication of Waymo Robotaxis for public horse riding, Waymo uses safety drivers to draw a city like San Francisco or Tokyo, creating very detailed maps.
The level of autonomy
The SAE Car Engineers Association classifies self-driving vehicles on a scale from zero to fifth-five senior sacred cups of independent driving in which a driver without a driver can go to any place under any environmental conditions, according to SAE. Tesla said it works as a 2 -level car, which means that she works as a driver’s assistant program with a human driver still behind the steering wheel.
In California, where Tesla performs a lot of internal tests, the car maker must secure a permit for level 3 and above the test. Tesla has not reported the use of the permit, which allows the self -driving program to work with a safety driver but more independent, since 2019. The company told California DMV in December that it is currently working as a 2 -level car in the state, according to the documents it sees BI.
Waymo, along with Zoox and Nuro, is one of the few companies that have been deployed from the 4 level in independent driving in the real world, which means that the car does not require a driver behind the steering wheel and is completely independent.
Waymo Robotaxis has restrictions. Vehicles cannot travel beyond the programmed areas in its system, and the company has not provided the Robotaxi service in cities with more extreme weather, such as snow. A spokesman for Waymo said the company invested in the weather test.
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Business models
Tesla has a consumer -focused business model. The company sells experimental versions of its full program for 8,000 dollars, or $ 99 a month. The program requires a licensed driver to oversee the car, but it can replace the corridors, learn about the stop lamps, enter and get out of highways.
While the company is also working on building a commercial roboty fleet, Musk said that the owners of Tesla will one day be able to rent their cars as a self -driving service, closer to Uber or Airbnb.
Waymo works mainly on the provision of the autonomous Rideshare service through Waymo One or through its partnership with Rideshare platforms such as Uber.
Unlike Tesla, Waymo does not manufacture cars at home and instead depends on partnerships with OEMS to build its fleet from Robotaxi, partnership with Jaguar, Chryler, Hyundai and Toyota.
Waymo has indicated its interest in providing autonomy technology for the vehicles owned by personally. On April 29, Waymo revealed that in early talks with Toyota to explore the autonomy of consumer cars.
Geographical
Tesla said it aims to offer service in Austin in June and in other American cities during the year. The company is still obtaining organizational approval in California, but it has many internal test drivers working in cities throughout the country, including Phoenix, Dallas, New York and Miami.
During the April Automobile Dress call, Musk said that Tesla owners will be able to drive their cars independently during the year. Musk said that Tesla will eventually publish its services worldwide.
Waymo chose to offer her service gradually In specific cities. As of April, Waymo Robota offers a driver without a driver to the audience in limited parts of the San Francisco Bay, Los Angeles, Phenix and Austin.
The company is currently testing in Atlanta, Washington, DC, Las Vegas, Miami, San Diego and Tokyo.
Independent miles
It is difficult to compare miles reports in Tesla and Waymo.
Tesla has not issued any information about the number of times that people need to control self -driving systems or the number of miles that their cars paid without interference. In its latest profit report, the company said that Beta FSD users paid 3.6 billion miles. The company also released an update in April that Tesla engineers carried out about 15,000 miles using an internal version of its Robotaxi application.
Waymo said that Robotaxis traveled 56.7 million miles from January, paid for human supervision. The company said it provides more than 250,000 flights per week from April.
The cost of riding robotics
Tesla did not say how much the service cost, but she said the price would be similar to Uber. Currently, Tesla owners pay a fixed fee of $ 8,000 or $ 99 per month to use the Beta version of FSD.
As with Uber and Lyft, the price of Waymo can vary depending on the city and demand.
One of the studies conducted by Evercore ISI from 1000 trips displayed by Waymo, Uber and Lyft found that Waymo price point has mainly reached equal with the current Rideshare platforms by the fourth quarter of 2024.
While Waymo was more expensive at about $ 24 per trip in mid -2014, the average Waymo fare fell nearly 10 % to about 22 dollars by the end of 2024.
This made Waymo in line with traditional Rideshare options, with Uberx at about $ 21 and Lyft at a price of about 22 dollars during the same period. Analysts noted that Uber and Lyft prices did not include the driver’s advice, unlike the comprehensive Waymo wages.
