Comment by NullHypothesist

15 hours ago

I wonder if they can simulate the Beatles crossing the street at Abbey Road in the late '60s

As a Londoner who used to have to ride up Abbey Road at least once per week there are people on that crossing pretty much all day every day reproducing that picture. So now Waymo are in Beta in London[1] they have only to drive up there and they'll get plenty of footage they could use for taht.

[1] I've seen a couple of them but they're not available to hire yet and are still very rare.

  • Will Google finally fund Christopher Wren's post great fire "wide streets" rebuild of the City?

    • Yeah it’s interesting to imagine a London that had such a rebuild, like Napoleon’s rebuild of Paris. I personally love the weird narrow streets and little alleyways of the City, but that’s because when I’m there I’m pretty much exclusively on foot having taken the tube in.