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San Franciscans are having sex in robotaxis
- tjpnz 3y agoPerhaps the passenger facing cameras are having the opposite intended effect?
- anotherhue 3y agoSurge pricing indeed.
- JoeAltmaier 3y agoPeople have sex everywhere they can. Maybe it'll be a little higher than 'sex in regular cars' but I doubt it'll be measurable.
- mchannon 3y agoYou kidding? If the two of you are having an affair, you can take the whole $250 hotel room and 30 minutes’ drive each way/each person and replace it with a $20 driverless taxi and literally get the entire sordid experience delivered to your door. The “I don’t think that’ll be a thing” is adorable, like people thinking hotels that rent by the hour are geared toward people who just need a couple hours of sleep. I see this blurring the lines between OnlyFans and transportation- get the transport service for free in exchange for the footage. Unless you’re terrible to watch, then it’s merely discounted. If people watch Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, why wouldn’t they pay to watch this?
- DANmode 3y agoI got lost in the middle, are you saying there's porn involving Jerry Seinfeld condescending people?
- unicornmama 3y agoThere’s more to having an affair than just the sex.
- duggan 3y agoTrue, the economies of scale here will really only kick in once the robotaxis can also pick up your food order en route.
- fragmede 3y agoNah, we can program the drones to deliver wine and cigarettes to a moving vehicle.
- tmpX7dMeXU 3y agoSometimes. Sometimes not. What’s your point?
- true_religion 3y agoLots of people have affairs with people that they can see professionally, or openly in a platonic setting. So the only part of the relationship that has to be really hidden is the intimacy. Personally though I think people will still choose hotels over the back problems that come with doing it in the backseat like a teenager.
- fragmede 3y agoThankfully (?) Cruise is already deploying their L4/5 pod vehicles, that don't have a front drivers seat, so it's more of a cabin and less like the back seat of a car. https://twitter.com/robertghilduta/status/1667838630713528321 https://twitter.com/robertghilduta/status/166783863071352832...
- TacticalCoder 3y ago> Maybe it'll be a little higher than 'sex in regular cars' but I doubt it'll be measurable. It's going to be super measurable and that's why there's already an article about it: if you're two in a regular car, with one person driving, you can't really have sex (it's doable I guess but dangerous and illegal). Now if you're three in a regular car, with a driver, the two that could have sex typically wouldn't (for privacy reasons: they don't want to do it next to the driver, except in some cases). I don't doubt that some regular cab drivers had people having sex in their taxi but I'm willing to bet that 99% of the time when they take two people, these two people aren't having sex.
- fragmede 3y ago> and illegal Lustified horny people have never broken the law in pursuit of having sex. There's a video on pornhub of a couple having sex in a full self driving Tesla and Elon Musk even commented on it! I guess the question is, does road head count as "sex"?
- Pigalowda 3y agoSo there’s no user ratings yet? I guess the beta testers are having fun with it.
- boomboomsubban 3y agoAnybody remember the HBO show "Taxicab Confessions?" People seemed to be having sex in taxis even with a driver, this isn't that surprising. Having known several taxi drivers myself, the main difference is likely there's nobody to yell at you to clean up after yourself.
- atonse 3y agoThis is exactly what my first thought was. This is a futuristic/dystopian version of taxicab confessions. Nobody there to see it but also no human to confide in after a late night.
- cj 3y ago> “We record video inside of the car for added safety and support,” Cruise states on its website. Either they're unaware that they have no expectation of privacy in self-driving car, or they welcome being watched Hopefully the latter.
- paxys 3y agoOr they are drunk
- Tao3300 3y agoWhat's the point of robotaxis if you can't screw in them? Are you just supposed to stare at your phone with all that extra time? They'll probably eventually get shittified like everything else and refuse to move if you're not staring at ads in the cabin.
- Eddy_Viscosity2 3y ago> refuse to move if you're not staring at ads in the cabin omg, don't give them ideas! Oh wait, someone just patented this and is seeking VC funding.
- Dalewyn 3y agoOver in Japan, some of the taxis now play ads (obnoxious audio included!) for the passengers to watch. Yes, you still pay the full fare. Yes, it is fucking obnoxious. No, there is no power off or mute button; none that I could find, anyway.
- bandyaboot 3y agoNot sure if it’s common elsewhere, but many gas stations around my area have screen on the pump that play obnoxiously loud ads while you’re pumping gas. Most of them have a mute button at least.
- boomboomsubban 3y agoSome of them play the ads somewhat constantly. Really freaked me out the first couple times I walked to my local grocery store with a gas station at 5 AM, then suddenly heard someone loudly talking behind me.
- logical_proof 3y agoIf it is the eight button variety the 2nd from the top button on the right side will mute it. Even though it is unlabeled.
- xnx 3y agoAmusing little article while this is still a novel service. If this is actually happening, it will stop almost immediately because the combination of passenger-facing cameras and non-anonymous rides will get you barred for life.
- Bud 3y agoMore like for the life of that particular service, which could be weeks or decades.
- Simulacra 3y agoI guess someone had this as a bucket item?
- nytesky 3y agoAnd this is why I suspect “renting out the family car” while you work won’t be a thing.
- _dain_ 3y agothis should be welcomed, we need to increase TFR (The Fuck Rate)
- rambojohnson 3y agookay.
- Zetice 3y agoEveryone thinks this is fun until you sit on a wet spot on your way to work the next morning.
- villgax 3y agoWasn't that the whole point? Why the Pikachu face lol?
- ryukoposting 3y agoHuxley's 21st century is upon us.
- justinzollars 3y agoFirst of all gross. Secondly, I doubt it. SF reminds me of the Junior Anti-Sex League
- lusus_naturae 3y agoIt's gross for two reasons I think (not saying I necessarily relate to them): 1) communicable diseases, e.g. crabs., and 2) if someone has to maintain cleanliness for any religious purpose.
- true_religion 3y agoHow does the religious cleanliness factor in?
- lusus_naturae 3y agoFor some Abrahamic religions (I am not sure about Christianity), being clean and being pure are distinct concepts. There are cases when one can be pure, but unclean/dirty and vice versa; having sex fluids on you is a case of being both (depending on your hygiene preferences). If it's just you or partners fluids, then one may not count that towards unclean, but it wouldn't be "clean" for a religious thingy.
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- hn_throwaway_99 3y agoSlightly related, but found it interesting that the main image on what is at least semi-purported to be a news article is a midjourney AI image (though kudos to the article for clearly identifying this). Stock photo businesses are deaaaaad. Edit: though if you look at it the actual configuration of this "back seat of the taxi" in this image is completely bizarre.
- faitswulff 3y ago> The Standard was unable to find a source who said they’d had sex in a Waymo. > “The vast majority of our riders are respectful and follow our rider rules,” a Waymo spokesman said. Yes, I'm sure the reason is because Waymo riders are just superior and not because they have less market (or otherwise) penetration.
- kotaKat 3y agoGotta love when GM is able to force their way through the approvals processes because they're GM!
- whoisthemachine 3y agoClearly, people are talking about it.
- sandworm101 3y agoPeople take taxis when they are drunk. People are more likely to engage in sex while drunk. People take taxis when they want a degree of privacy as they travel, as opposed to busses. People are more likely to have sex when in a semi-private space. A taxi provides a degree of physical security, a barrier between you and the mob. Why is this a surprise? In SF I expect that some taxi startup will soon target this market directly.
- Kuinox 3y agoI don't take taxi for the privacy but because public transports suck in Paris at night. Past 2AM the metro doesn't works, the train to Versailles (next to where I live) doesn't work, the bus to my city also doesn't works. The second biggest issue when taking public transport while drunk, is sleeping and missing your stop.
- pschuegr 3y agoThis is one of those times that I remember that people are basically just monkeys with clothes.
- LorenPechtel 3y agoSo what? It's not like you can realistically expect a public sitting surface to be clean anyway. So long as you don't leave a mess I don't care.
- simne 3y agoWell, this is unofficial "option" of older taxis. I've few times hear, that for some not too large amount of money, driver could allow couple to stay alone in taxi for few minutes.
- arp242 3y agoWhat kind of prudish 1950s bullshit is this? "questionable behavior", "dirty", "debauchery", "accomplice", "unseemly behavior". I stopped reading after that.
- bicx 3y agoWell, the woman in the article said it was exciting because it felt wrong, so I guess it’s going along with that idea in a tongue-in-cheek sort of way.
- rohannn 3y agohonestly what were people expecting lmao
- samstave 3y agoThere was a guy that started a mobile sex-box-truck in the Bay Area a few years ago - you could pay to have it pick you up and drive around while you have sex in the back while he drove around... Now, with robotaxis you dont need to worry about the driver - but how many cams are in the cab of the robotaxi "welcome to Johnny Cab" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWgrvNHjKkY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWgrvNHjKkY
- creer 3y ago> “It was really funny because [the Cruise] got quite hot and fogged up to the point that the windshield was completely fogged over — in any other context, in any other vehicle, that would be an actual problem,” Hahahahaha. So on the one hand this is a (somewhat?) positive article, even if it's looking for trouble. In that it's normalizing the self-driving car. It's taking it as a given and writing about something else. That's intesting in showing acceptance. On the other hand, the developers are then going all "we are actively working to put a stop to that". This is why we can't have nice things.
- joker_minmax 3y agoThe sanitation aspect of this is the real issue. Propriety has never been a priority for taxi passengers.