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Another thing. Often AV service area maps advertised are kind of...

Name: Another thing. Often AV service area maps advertised are kind of...
Uploaded: 2026-10-28T16:33:32.495772+00:00
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Channel: @ethanmckanna
Description: Another thing. Often AV service area maps advertised are kind of fake- they don’t actually go to everywhere in the polygon the provider publishes. Robotaxi Houston is probably by far the most egregious ‘fake’ AV service area I’ve seen I get they... — Thread by @ethanmckanna

Ethan McKanna@ethanmckanna

3 views Oct 28, 2026 ~1 min read

Another thing. Often AV service area maps advertised are kind of fake- they don’t actually go to everywhere in the polygon the provider publishes. Robotaxi Houston is probably by far the most egregious ‘fake’ AV service area I’ve seen

I get they were doing it so they could get the starship shape but again this is another poor experience point

Ethan McKanna@ethanmckanna

40 min ride to cross 2 blocks downtown.

this is pretty rough

Also a lot more crazy routing outside downtown too

Good annotation by Nik of the inaccessible area

This is not something new and Waymo and others do this to a certain extent as well when a geofence is new, I just thought this was an interesting case

Nik Harris@nikkharris

it appears that roughly this red portion is inaccessible

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