[gdbsjjdn]

Remember that the robotaxi industry is currently doing everything they can to look good. They are being watched like hawks. Look at how everyone was horny for Uber rides, until Uber needed to actually make money so they jacked up fares, cut driver pay and let anyone with a piece of shit car join. Or how Google search has been enshittified.

In 10 years when robotaxi companies are short on cash and trying to IPO they will absolutely start speeding. They'll lock the doors and give you a paid presentation about Scientology during your ride. "Accidentally" drive you to a competing store that paid for sponsored traffic, instead of the .

[Gareth321]

Then customers choose a self-driving taxi which doesn't try to kill them. People aren't forced to take the murder taxis.

[gruez]

>In 10 years when robotaxi companies are short on cash and trying to IPO they will absolutely start speeding

Openly commit crimes when everything's being recorded and subject to discovery? What could possibly go wrong?

>They'll lock the doors and give you a paid presentation about Scientology during your ride.

Sounds like a good excuse for whoever's trapped to break open the side windows because he "felt he was in danger because of claustrophobia" or whatever. More seriously though, I don't see anything wrong with mandatory ads as long as it's disclosed ahead of time.

> "Accidentally" drive you to a competing store that paid for sponsored traffic, instead of the .

By your own admission "Google search has been enshittified", yet when was the last time google "accidentally" sent you to the competitor's site on the search results page?

[beeflet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlCrcMeVZHs

[BizyDev]

Uh, every Google search already shows me sponsored links to competitors’ sites at the top of the results.

What would you say if in 5 years with Waymo, you want to go to Burger King but before taking you there, it suggests ‘hey, why don’t you go to this McDonald’s instead?’ At first you’d get a discount on your ride if you accept the suggestion, and then once everyone gets used to it, no more discounts and everyone ends up paying more than human taxis cost today.