[dabeeeenster]

“Meet Sustainability Goals: Waymo’s fully electric fleet helps organizations advance their sustainability targets”

Taking a private taxi to commute to work or school is easily the worst thing you can do environmentally in a city. Doesn’t really matter that you’re not burning dinosaur juice.

[asdff]

Especially when I'm guessing a lot of these "urban tech worker" commutes are mostly on surface streets or congested highways barely moving any faster. In my experience cycling to work I am actually faster on the bike than when I take the car. This is mostly due to filtering to the front of the intersection effectively eliminating any and all effects of rush hour traffic. Another huge factor is I can also park the bike directly in front of the door to the building, no having to walk from a designated parking or drop off zone.

[cortesoft]

I would be 90% sweat if I biked to work. Would need a shower and change

[xnx]

> the worst thing you can do environmentally in a city

Worse than owning a large single family home that lowers density and pushes everyone further from their destinations?

[jeffbee]

That doesn't seem right. Taking your own car, which you park at both ends of the trip, is clearly worse from a vehicle utilization and land use standpoint. A Waymo that takes a dozen trips a day and never parks on the street seems obviously superior.

[delfinom]

I think the point is it's green washing. True sustainability is public transit, or biking or walking. This is just a line item got a company to blast as sustainability in marketing. This will let Waymo absorb some money from green washing slush funds.

[thrance]

The waymo carries no passengers when it's driving to pick up its next customer. So, its average occupancy (<1) is somehow even worse than that of a car used exclusively by one person.

[IshKebab]

Driving your own petrol car is surely worse? What are you talking about...