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I would much rather prefer my own private car than one being driven by someone else. It'll be interesting to see if the level of cleanliness though as most driv

I would much rather prefer my own private car than one being driven by someone else. It'll be interesting to see if the level of cleanliness though as most drivers tend to take care of their car because it's their car. If someone throws up in one of these cars does it know or does it just show up to the next pickup?

DavidAdams 5y ago
I'm sure that any of these services are going to depend on customers reporting when a car shows up in an unacceptable condition.
- asdff 5y ago
  That sounds like a great way to burn reputation among your customers. "Why would I take a self driving car from the bar, the last one was full of puke?"
kelnos 5y ago
That raises another question for me: I thought Uber and Lyft[0] had COVID-related cleaning protocols that require their drivers to disinfect some surfaces of the car after each ride. How can a driverless car do that? [0] https://www.lyft.com/driver/clean https://www.lyft.com/driver/clean
- dag11 5y ago
  Do they? I've ridden plenty of ubers in the past year and haven't noticed any such disinfecting.
  - kelnos 5y ago
    Why would you? Presumably they don't do it while you're there.
    - mandarax8 5y ago
      And you still think they do it?
    - thebean11 5y ago
      You would smell the alcohol
- akavi 5y ago
  Sounds like getting rid of some hygiene theater is another benefit of self-driving cars then. Covid transmission via surfaces is basically non-existent, as far as we can tell.
stevage 5y ago
Easy to add cameras and have someone remotely decide to send the car to get cleaned.