What Waymo's Data Reveals About Who Actually Rides Robotaxis
Everyone in autonomous driving asks when the technology will work. William "Billy" Riggs asks the harder question: what happens after it does, when you have to fit it into a city that wasn't built for it?
Daniel sits down with William, professor at the University of San Francisco and Director of the Autonomous Vehicles and the City Initiative, to challenge ten years of industry narrative. His thesis: AVs behave less like software and more like infrastructure. The hard part was never the driving stack. It's operations, integration, and the politics of the street.
Drawing on two of the only…
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