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Harry Campbell
Personal blog · thedriverlessdigest.combusinessstartups
Harry Campbell writes The Driverless Digest, a personal blog at thedriverlessdigest.com about business and startups. Since 2025, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Harry Campbell's Driverless Digest for data on Waymo ride volumes, idle fleet time and robotaxi scaling. Comments cite its figures as sources, without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Covering the intersection of autonomy and rideshare, and the business of AVs.
What Hacker News says?
> I doubt my students will get their way. Perhaps A.I. companions will plateau, the way self-driving cars seem to have done. What world is he living in where self-driving cars have plateaued? https://www.thedriverlessdigest.com/p/latest-waymo-californi...
Comment linking /p/latest-waymo-california-data-dump
on “We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness”Submitted Why Crash Rate only tells half the AV safety story as a story · 1 points
HN discussionScaling is going well. Latest data available is from April: https://www.thedriverlessdigest.com/i/163651491/weekly-trips... I think I remember them targeting 1M rides/week in 2026.
Comment linking /i/163651491/weekly-trips-all-cities
on “Waymo for Business”Yes, they spend a large amount of time idle. Examining the cumulative hours waiting over time, it is a bit staggering just how much time Waymos are spending without a passenger or even assigned to pick one up. Peaking in March 2025 with over 304,000 hours, the California Waymo vehicle fleet is spending the equivalent of 12,700 days every month operational but without an assigned passenger trip. If we assume 1,000 Wa…
Comment linking /p/how-waymo-spends-its-time-between
on “Miami, Your Waymo Ride Is Ready”