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Re:Waymo One is now open to everyone in San Francisco by 0max on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @08:01PM (#40795105)
I've had a dude with a Tagalog accent take over the speakers in my car and asked me and the folks I was inside with to leave because I decided to clown car it with friends visiting from out of state. With that said, there for sure is someone monitoring, but it's similar to how checkout at Amazon Go stores went.

I'd be curious to know how this monitoring scales over time.

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Re:Waymo One is now open to everyone in San Francisco by eightysixfour on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @10:41PM (#40795903)
I don’t work for Amazon but I have worked with the tech. The media really ran with a misunderstanding there - the error rate for JWO is dramatically lower than people seem to think.

https://www.forrester.com/blogs/no-amazon-isnt-killing-just-...

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Re:Waymo One is now open to everyone in San Francisco by fragmede on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @10:59PM (#40796005)
We have computers that can drive a car in city traffic and you're worried that we can't have a computer look at the inside of a car and tell me if someone's left a mess? A non-ML model background subtraction algorithm from the 2000's could tell you that.
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Re:Waymo One is now open to everyone in San Francisco by TremendousJudge on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @10:39AM (#40800645)
computers can't smell
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Re:Waymo One is now open to everyone in San Francisco by traverseda on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @11:07AM (#40800915)
VOC sensors are pretty good
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Re:Waymo One is now open to everyone in San Francisco by AuryGlenz on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @11:39AM (#40801270)
“Massive fart detected. Initializing ejector seat in 3, 2…”

I’m not sure how you could make that work. People that eat Indian food step in and it might get set off, so people will cry racism. You drive next to a particular industrial plant, etc..

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Re:Waymo One is now open to everyone in San Francisco by bushbaba on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @02:33AM (#40797010)
I’ll be curious how this is profitable long term.
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Re:Waymo One is now open to everyone in San Francisco by DANmode on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @02:40AM (#40797040)
Does your long term include changing from offshoring?

If not, what are you expecting to be prohibitive?

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