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Re:Waymo begins freeway rides for the public by vasusen on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @12:42PM (#45903147)
I am really excited for this. Once going home with my family via Uber in SFO we realized on the freeway that our driver was high and driving at 80-85 mph.

It was a really scary experience and I couldn’t do much about it in the moment.

Re:Waymo begins freeway rides for the public by boulos on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @03:23PM (#45905989)
Make sure to do whatever "express interest" is required inside the app. We've often done a first-come, first-served approach for getting people off of waitlists, so get in now :).
Re:Waymo begins freeway rides for the public by Austin_Conlon on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @02:38PM (#45905186)
One time my driver had a TV show playing on their dashboard phone on 101.
Re:Waymo begins freeway rides for the public by cflewis on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @05:15PM (#45907584)
This happens to me >70% in the Bay peninsula now.
Re:Waymo begins freeway rides for the public by usageranonyme on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @08:42PM (#45909426)
I tried to report this and Uber does not make it easy. It does not fit in any of the multiple choice categories and there's no freeform. At least there was none back then, started to use waymo.
Re:Waymo begins freeway rides for the public by joeconway on Friday November 14, 2025 @01:04AM (#45924308)
I also had someone do this while their Tesla was in self driving mode. When I insisted he turn it off, he said “it’s not about you bro”.
Re:Waymo begins freeway rides for the public by kjkjadksj on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @01:55PM (#45904311)
How could you tell they were high?
Re:Waymo begins freeway rides for the public by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @01:57PM (#45904371)
> How could you tell they were high?

In New York it's not too difficult. Fidgitiness, twitchiness, rambling series of non sequiturs that make even my ADD brain rattle. Screaming at traffic and running on the margin one second and then asking me if I know that the archangel who visited Muhammed was actually a demon the next. (I'm not Muslim. The conversation wasn't addressed to anyone in the vehicle.)

Like, I guess I can't say they're taking too much of a substance. But if they aren't, they're taking too little.

Re:Waymo begins freeway rides for the public by kjkjadksj on Thursday November 13, 2025 @04:26PM (#45920782)
That is just how a lot of people are. They could be on the spectrum. They could be talkative. You don’t know them. You have no baseline for their behavior.
Re:Waymo begins freeway rides for the public by 6thbit on Thursday November 13, 2025 @04:38PM (#45920941)
Would you say the same if the claim was they were drunk?
Re:Waymo begins freeway rides for the public by kjkjadksj on Friday November 14, 2025 @12:33AM (#45924176)
Sure if there was no obvious physical impairment
Re:Waymo begins freeway rides for the public by whimsicalism on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @12:43PM (#45903157)
high on what?
Re:Waymo begins freeway rides for the public by junon on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @01:04PM (#45903471)
Does it matter? Can't think of a single substance that's safe for driving a car.
Re:Waymo begins freeway rides for the public by whimsicalism on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @02:48PM (#45905379)
antidepressants?
Re:Waymo begins freeway rides for the public by kjkjadksj on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @01:57PM (#45904380)
Amphetamines certainly
Re:Waymo begins freeway rides for the public by starik36 on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @01:56PM (#45904338)
High on life!
Re:Waymo begins freeway rides for the public by asadm on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @01:52PM (#45904266)
mj likely? which should be illegal.
Re:Waymo begins freeway rides for the public by GuinansEyebrows on Thursday November 13, 2025 @11:33AM (#45916915)
is there any place on earth where it's not expressly illegal to be under the influence of cannabis while operating a motor vehicle?
Re:Waymo begins freeway rides for the public by iammattmurphy on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @01:12PM (#45903581)
Speed?