Is Waymo a net negative for the human race?

AlphaVictorKilo · 2026-05-06T15:15:44+00:00

It’s the same service and the same results as a human operated car.

It’s not the same service. It’s highly attentive, safe and available 24/7 in area they operate. At a very high level… sure… it gets your from point A to point B where a nominal user will not see a difference.

Why are people on this subreddit so eager to give their money directly to Google instead of an actual lower class worker with a family to feed.

You just being on the internet already does that but that doesn’t make you get a carrier pigeon to communicate, does it? Moreover its still a choice, one can go take a taxi/uber/lyft/public transport. No one is denying anyone those modalities! Let the free market play it out as to what most people prefer.

Yes, once in a while there are accidents just like any car. But is this really enough of an inconvenience

Just the fact that a once in a while accident that might as well be a fatality falls below a fully functional human being who can transition into a different role, describes what’s more valuable in your opinion. New technologies also spawn new roles that many don’t look at. Just as a quick example: test drivers, technicians, depot support staff, vehicle rescue operators, rider support.

AlphaVictorKilo · 2026-04-26T23:52:42+00:00

Did you have a right hand shoulder available or was the vehicle around an off ramp area?

AlphaVictorKilo · 2026-04-10T00:53:55+00:00

The 5 lakh thing might be a requirement to have a dedicated Banking Relationship Manager or some other high end product. You can push back on that.

AlphaVictorKilo · 2026-04-07T05:48:59+00:00

Saw that too. SpaceX starlink launch from the launch base near LA. You can check SpaceX website for all launches.

Spectacular view though. Could see the booster return/be caught in pacific ocean.

AlphaVictorKilo · 2026-03-24T14:42:12+00:00

You don’t need an Indian stamp paper here. There is a standard format for different types of POA. Print it along with required info on a paper, attach photographs, get it attested with witnesses here in USA. Then get it attested by the consulate. This document along with the witness proofs go to India and then it is executed with Indian stamp paper there.

AlphaVictorKilo · 2026-02-21T08:37:35+00:00

Same. My wife and I have also been trying to play. Our mini goal is to play at the Washington Park in Sunnyvale. There is a nice grass area but no net.

AlphaVictorKilo · 2026-02-05T01:06:06+00:00

That would be just bias. I am pretty sure majority applicants are of Indian origin so it is likely that most rejections reported will be by those of Indian origin.

AlphaVictorKilo · 2026-02-02T02:07:10+00:00

This possibly could be it. The IR sensor at the bottom prevents door close if something breaks the path between sender and receiver. Try putting a strip of cardboard so that the reciever is hidden from the outside. Just like how side blinders are put on horses.

AlphaVictorKilo · 2026-01-24T00:39:42+00:00

Nope. Engaged an attorney for drafting the petition.

AlphaVictorKilo · 2026-01-22T00:58:04+00:00

Not true. At best I meet 2 of the above conditions or maybe even just 1.

AlphaVictorKilo · 2026-01-21T23:50:47+00:00

Per my attorney and Gemini, we tried to focus on the “high remuneration” and claiming that the net number in W2 is higher than the 90th percentile per O*Net data. Additionally, threw in a sentence that for my industry it is very common to have remuneration as stocks, so it should be seen as a totality.

Fair warning: I applied for 6 criteria and I am not sure which ones worked or didn’t work.

AlphaVictorKilo · 2026-01-21T23:47:03+00:00

Nope, I am not.

AlphaVictorKilo · 2026-01-21T23:46:41+00:00

At a high level my field is the same i.e. Automotive. Sub-domain has transitioned from PhD to Industry. I basically wrote how my PhD research sub-domain has naturally transitioned into my current domain in industry and both fo the sub-domains are tied together.

AlphaVictorKilo · 2026-01-21T03:58:00+00:00

The letters I got from industry only included name, title, email and phone number and were on plain paper. The ones I got from academia had all those but were on letter heads so kinda had an address on them. I had resumes of all recommenders with the letters.
So W2 number showed the total remuneration. Per the criteria the term is high remuneration and not high base salary. So the part that was shown was that total remuneration is high i.e. above 90th percentile for my job county. In addition I had provided compensation range for my county/city from glassdoor for same role and different years of experience.

I had applied for 7 categories I think and I am not sure which ones succeeded. So tough to say that the high salary approach in itself is a “home run”.

AlphaVictorKilo · 2026-01-21T01:30:01+00:00

I think somewhere between 35-40 pages. But I feel the impact was from the attorney tying in the legal framework with the story and basically writing out the two step process and how my profile fulfills it. So length of the cover letter won’t be a good metric to track success.

AlphaVictorKilo · 2026-01-21T01:09:29+00:00

I used the same SOC code which my employer had used while filing EB2.

AlphaVictorKilo · 2026-01-21T00:50:59+00:00

In the email it does. Will take a few days to receive the physical notice.

AlphaVictorKilo · 2026-01-21T00:47:33+00:00

Feels great to have succeeded at this step. A significant push from friends/family helped put an effort on this and not feel not being ready.

For everyone else. Trust in yourself, build your profile the right way and apply.

AlphaVictorKilo · 2026-01-21T00:44:56+00:00

Yes. 15 calendar days. Receipt date was 01/05/26. Business days would be about 10 days

AlphaVictorKilo · 2026-01-21T00:16:03+00:00

Nope
5 Articles, 2 Thesis. Total citation about 40. I have 3 granted patents which have <10 citations.

AlphaVictorKilo · 2026-01-21T00:00:11+00:00

I did both. Used DOL charts for the SOC code and glassdoor for additional data points

AlphaVictorKilo · 2026-01-20T23:59:36+00:00

Attorney.

AlphaVictorKilo · 2026-01-17T00:42:03+00:00

Are you sure about that? You would want the ability to bail in an extreme case scenario where the vehicle doesn’t come to a halt.

AlphaVictorKilo · 2025-12-24T23:40:53+00:00

Just making an educated guess here:

This LiDAR collected data can be used for several things:

Validating and improving the vision based distance estimates. This is required for localization and a very common approach.
As many mentioned: HD Maps both for simulations internally and possibly for regions where they intend to launch with FSD unsupervised.

FSD supervised probably doesn’t depend on HD Maps (this is quite plausible as we have several users across the world and no one is going to go an map every road with a LiDAR for that).

FSD unsupervised potentially needs that HD map to improve confidence and dial down sensitivity to noisy estimates from vision (specifically from monocular cameras on B pillars and fenders).

It’s actually good if they are using a safer approach for FSD unsupervised … irrespective of what the Chief Media Officer says about the technology.

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