Comment on A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco

• 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.

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  • 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.

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    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      1. Infrared cameras

      2. Whoever booked the driverless taxi pays for the damage

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      • KevonLooney@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You don’t understand. There’s no camera on the floor of the car. There are so many times that someone can drop something without even realizing it. You won’t know which paying customer did it.

        Someone can have a pen in their back pocket and be scribbling all over the seat without even knowing it. How will any camera catch small dark ink marks on a dark seat in the dark? Your eyes are so much better than that.

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  • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You don’t think drunk people have to shit?

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    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I assume most of it will stay in the pants

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      • megaman@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If im drunk in someone elses tesla and i shit myself, im leaving the drawers in the car. Im not walking around in that.

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  • 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.

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    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s why you (theoretically would) earn money by renting it.

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