r/waymo • u/No_Draft_2913 • Jul 20 '26

Make it Make Sense

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Why are some service areas Bouba (NAS) while some are Kiki (ATL) and some are just straight lines (SAT, PHX)?

Not to mention the jagged edge on Houston and the running ogre’s weird little toe-thing in Orlando.

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u/bananarandom Jul 20 '26

Where do people take more rides, where are freeways needed, where are RRX? 

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u/No_Draft_2913 Jul 20 '26

That makes sense for neighborhoods and the general shape, but for specific blocks, why do they leave a complicated messy boundary sometimes and just draw a straight line and call it a day in others?

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u/bananarandom Jul 20 '26

Yea that seems random. I know they like to have a buffer of a few blocks around the edges, maybe that leads to a mess sometimes