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The whole vandalism/making a mess thing is entirely possible to solve by holding the passenger accountable. I'd assume the cars would all have camera's inside t
by stanmancan 9y ago
The whole vandalism/making a mess thing is entirely possible to solve by holding the passenger accountable. I'd assume the cars would all have camera's inside them. The flow could be as simple as:
1) I use an app to request a ride
2) Car pulls up
3) Car does a facial recognition scan as I approach the car and know's it's me, unlocking the door. It know's it's me because I also had to do a facial recognition scan when I set up the app.
4) Camera's can monitor the cleanlyness of the car. If it detects a mess when I leave the vehicle then the car gets sent to the depot for a cleaning.
4.a) Car doesn't detect it's dirty, but the next passenger to get picked up notices it's a mess and can notify them via the app. This will prompt a new car to come for the passenger and the original vehicle gets sent to the depot for cleaning
5) The vehicle gets inspected and cleaned and whoever was responsible gets notifed of the cleaning fee and their credit card is billed automatically (which would be part of the agreement when using the service)
edit: formatting
- ams6110 9y agoAs simple as...
- stanmancan 9y agoGood point. When I said "simply" it was more the fact that all this technology already exists. If you can fit facial ID scanners on a phone, surely you can on a self-driving car. And ff you know the clean state of the car, it's not very difficult technically to detect if anything was left in the car. This could even set a flag for some one to remotely check the camera to see if it's a false alarm. Again -- not very difficult on a technical standpoint. However, even bypassing this theoretical "auto-dirty-detector" you could soley rely on the next rider to mark the vehicle as unsanitary which would dispatch them a new ride, while the old one gets dispatched back to the depot for cleaning.