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Re:Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft – and people are ... by standardUser on Saturday June 14, 2025 @02:40PM (#44277958)
On the upside, I've had Uber drivers in multiple countries help me buy drugs. Waymo hasn't hooked me up even once.
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Re:Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft – and people are ... by nabla9 on Saturday June 14, 2025 @02:58PM (#44278084)
Knowing how economics works, this will lead to specialization.

Human drivers will become more likely to offer extra services like drugs, company and entertainment. Silent careful drivers will be driven out by Waymo.

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Re:Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft – and people are ... by ruined on Saturday June 14, 2025 @09:31PM (#44279983)
and from the top, management's application of wage-descent games is making steady progress, externalizing the largest tolerable side-hustle

illicit retail is the natural symbiosis of optimized service labor

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Re:Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft – and people are ... by math_dandy on Saturday June 14, 2025 @03:23PM (#44278250)
In-car product vending will come soon enough I’m sure.
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Re:Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft – and people are ... by randerson on Saturday June 14, 2025 @07:41PM (#44279584)
It could be good business for AI cars to start doing this too. You can't put an algorithm in prison, and the programmers can just say its a black box and nobody could possibly understand how it trained itself to do it. The company makes money off the extra rides, while having plausible deniability because maybe the customer just wanted a ride. IANAL.
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Re:Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft – and people are ... by thomasfromcdnjs on Sunday June 15, 2025 @01:38AM (#44280766)
Baha
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