[labrador]

As someone on both sides of the issue I think this is good. I worked in tech my whole life and then drove an Uber in retirement. Uber is basically saying "We're partnering with Waymo to eliminate drivers, so here's something to help pay you while you transition to another job."

[ulfw]

It's literally "We're partnering with Waymo to eliminate drivers, so here's something to help make your job disappear faster."

[gs17]

In the article:

> Casserly said that tasks will not be related to any of Uber’s autonomous partnerships or the development of driverless vehicles.

But also it would be hard to provide them with tasks that are genuinely useful to training autonomous vehicles with only their phone.

Think about what data Waymo needs at this point. Where I am, they're driving street by street to get sensor maps of everywhere to prep for launching, which requires people to be driving a car with their specific sensors, not a phone.

[labrador]

When I was a kid growing up in the space age 1960's a popular phrase was "you can't stop progress!" I guess it helped people cope with the world changing.