No one was inside a Waymo car as it was destroyed.

A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco::A Waymo car was destroyed in San Francisco as a crowd began vandalizing it and ultimately set the car on fire. Nobody was in the vehicle at the time.

  • DudeDudenson@lemmings.worldEnglish
    222·
    9 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.

      • Tja@programming.devEnglish
        10·
        9 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.eeEnglish
          93·
          9 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.devEnglish
            73·
            9 months ago

            1. Infrared cameras

            2. Whoever booked the driverless taxi pays for the damage

            • KevonLooney@lemm.eeEnglish
              32·
              9 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 and even they won’t catch everything.

        • MashedTech@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          9 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.