Technology

I'm all for self driving car tech, but not with goals of perpetual revenue generation.

Give me something that is an addon to any car without any subscription or maintenance fees so I can just have it installed in my own car or in a few family cars, otherwise i'm truly not interested in providing yet another techbro for pay to use technology full of day 1 enshittification goals that include paying workers absolutely nothing.

We all know that by the time real self driving cars are established they will cost as much or more than paying an actual human to do the job and all profit goes into the hands of a few. It's just like what they're going for with AI overall.

Yeh, ill drive my own vehicle thanks

A 2nd robot car pulled it over.

Machinery is required to have a big red STOP button that will immediately stop all moving parts. For emergencies. I assume these cars don't have something like that? Maybe they should be required to; stop and unlock all doors.

/edit: I see it's mentioned/suggested in some other comments as well.

It just dawned on me that no matter what, we have a wasted seat on self-driving taxis because we still put a wheel and pedals that are expected to go unused in the vehicle. I think this would help highlight just how unsafe this concept really is. With the wheel and pedals there, maybe it’s giving people more of an illusion of control or something, because I feel like having nothing there would make people a lot less comfortable, even though that’s the reality of the situation.

Edit: people keep bringing up ways this could be used, and that we do it for cost-cutting, but this still doesn’t detract from the reality of how they were actually deployed before these concerns were addressed. They’re not even commenting on it and letting the consumer fill in their PR’s gaps for them.

Well, that was only a matter of time

Sue the fucking ever loving shit out of waymo. Kill this fucking company.

Humans crash cars all the time, and yet I still know people who are just so chuffed about "not having to drive" because they're going in their friend's car.

And yet I still know people who are just so chuffed about “never having to drive again.”

Personally I'd be happy to use fully automatic car and never drive again unless I really want to. The coffin on wheels with T in front just isn't one of those. And none of the other brands aren't there either.