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File:Waymo self-driving car front view.gk.jpg[edit]

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Original – A Waymo self-driving car on the road in Mountain View. (Front view.)
Reason
A beautiful and clear image of an iconic prototype self-driving car, an early flagship product of Waymo.
Articles in which this image appears
Waymo, Self-driving car
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Vehicles/Land
Creator
grendel|khan
  • Support as nominatorgrendel|khan 08:06, 22 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Is the car operating in autonomous mode at that time? The best EV composition would have nobody in the driver's seat and some motion blur in the background. Reserving judgement for now. MER-C 10:55, 22 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment – As I understand it, it's illegal to operate an autonomous car without a driver in California; these are neighborhood-scale vehicles, so they max out at 25 mph, in practice usually much less, and I don't believe that these cars had a non-autonomous mode. (They had no steering wheel or other in-car controls.) grendel|khan 17:23, 22 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment – The Waymo article strikes me as overlong (nearly 3,000 words) and semi-promotional in places, and this image doesn't seem to say much beyond "here's the product." Sca (talk) 14:35, 22 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - The white balance (seems a tad dark, or perhaps it's that it was too bright and the highlights were taken way down) and bottom crop don't seem ideal. Not sure how much of that can be helped, and perhaps it's not a good idea since it's already a QI and VI on Commons... — Rhododendrites talk \\ 05:04, 24 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 08:21, 1 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]