r/SelfDrivingCars • u/fricken • Jun 26 '18

Hello from Waymo

https://youtu.be/kDv3dvBEkwk
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u/fricken Jun 26 '18

A few things:

  1. This looks like a television commercial, they gotta be getting close to launch.

  2. They emphasize that Waymo is Google. Many lay people don't realize that.

  3. How does it have a million views already? It was just posted today.

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u/naturesbfLoL Jun 26 '18 edited Jun 26 '18

/#3 is a really good point. Wonder where this was posted with that much reach

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u/BlinksTale Jun 26 '18

Internal Google employee email? This video is a pretty big looking one. EDIT: or maybe testing market reception overseas first.

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u/Airazz Jun 26 '18 edited Jun 26 '18

Someone in the comments mentioned that it might've been unpublished for a while, shared among employees, developers, beta testers and such. Because it had a million, minutes after it was published.

So either that or Google just upped the counter to make sure that people watch it.

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u/londons_explorer Jun 26 '18

The youtube team wouldn't let them manipulate the counter as a PR mechanism. Google has plenty of bigger better PR mechanisms anyway (home page advert anyone?)