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The self-driving taxis are, like other taxis, taking responsibility for their safety during the journey. Suppose Alice gets a Waymo to the bar, and Bob gets an
by tialaramex 3y ago
The self-driving taxis are, like other taxis, taking responsibility for their safety during the journey.
Suppose Alice gets a Waymo to the bar, and Bob gets an Uber. On the way, bad luck they both crash into different idiots who don't think red lights apply to them. Neither Alice nor Bob are responsible. Waymo handles Alice's situation and I don't know whether Uber owns the problem or they put it on the driver, but they can't land it on Bob.
Long before Waymo was available to the general paying customers, one of their demos was a blind man gets a free journey, because of course, no problem, blind people travel by taxi all the time, you don't need to see the traffic, the taxi driver does that, Waymo is just a taxi.
- diebeforei485 3y agoA lot of taxi drivers discriminate against people with disabilities (some uber drivers do this too, they see you with your cane or walker and just drive past and cancel). Perhaps except in San Francisco where paratransit is a majority of taxi fares. Robotaxis don't discriminate. You can get banned after the fact if you do prohibited things like snorting coke or having sex in the robotaxi, but they don't see a cane and assume you're not going to pay the fare.