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> you can’t use it to send your 15 year old to the mall/theater, as you must be 18 to use the service alone. They could honestly relax that constrain. > The t
by 908B64B197 5y ago
> you can’t use it to send your 15 year old to the mall/theater, as you must be 18 to use the service alone.
They could honestly relax that constrain.
> The trial area effectively requires a vehicle for any practical lifestyle, and any of the use cases that I’d normally take a Lyft/Uber for, just aren’t serviced by Waymo.
The trial area seems constrained because in case something goes wrong they still have to dispatch a human. That doesn't really scale.
- ghaff 5y ago>They could honestly relax that constrain. I don't know what legal constraints/tradeoffs they're operating under but I was flying in planes by myself (as an adult) by the time I was 15. So it doesn't seem unreasonable.
- postingawayonhn 5y agoBut you weren't by yourself. There were airline employees there the whole time.
- ghaff 5y agoAre you suggesting that stepping in an autonomous vehicle at home to be delivered to a museum and returning the same way is somehow more challenging than flying to a different state, taking public transportation, going to work at a McDonalds, or walking around a city--all of which are things that teens do? I assume these autonomous vehicles are monitored by humans at, at least, some level.
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- draw_down 5y agoThe piece is about what is today, not what could be
- Cilvic 5y ago>They could honestly relax that constrain. If I were waymo I'd keep that as long as i can because the downside of "child killed by freak accident in waymo car" probably is probably something I'd like to avoid.