Comment on A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco
DudeDudenson@lemmings.world 8 months ago
This is exactly the kind of stuff I think about when people talk about autonomous cars being the future or the idea of your Tesla doing rideshare while you’re not using it.
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Indubitably, someday you’ll get your car back and there’ll be a big steaming shit on the seat.
Tja@programming.dev 8 months ago
The people riding are not anonymous so you know who did it, and the rideshare company will have insurance for those cases.
I’d be much more worried about drunk people barfing all over the interior, BTW.
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 8 months ago
The real issue that no one mentions is that it will be dark at night and cameras will not work very well. You will be able to identify every person who gets in, but not who spilled something all over the seat / floor. So you can’t charge anyone for cleaning.
The next passengers will grind it into the fabric. When you get the car back it will be stained, and no insurance covers stains. If you think Uber will cover that with no proof of which customer did it, you are dreaming. This is one of the many things an Uber driver does (telling people “no smoking, drinking, eating, sitting on laps, etc.”) that a self driving car won’t do.
A self driving taxi will be like the back of the bus, where no one is watching. You don’t want to know what’s going on there.
Tja@programming.dev 8 months ago
Infrared cameras
Whoever booked the driverless taxi pays for the damage
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
You don’t think drunk people have to shit?
Tja@programming.dev 8 months ago
I assume most of it will stay in the pants
MashedTech@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Sure but damage is damage and you probably need your car to do something so who wants to deal with that instead of doing whatever is important and they’re supposed to. In the US a car isn’t optional and parking isn’t free and readily available everywhere for long periods of time.
Tja@programming.dev 8 months ago
That’s why you (theoretically would) earn money by renting it.