Artificially Ignorant
Just tried this service for the first time, here’s what happened. The car arrived NOT at my designated residential address (with no advance warning), but a block and half away. Meaning that I had to walk to hunt it down. Trouble is, I have an injured knee, meaning that the 4 minute deadline it gave me was a race against the clock. So I painfully limp all the way to the vehicle with only one second to spare, just to have it time out, lock the doors, and start to drive away as I’m standing directly next to it. Then it freezes in the middle of the road, blocking traffic with people honking at it, until it finally decides to drive away. THEN they have the nerve to charge me a cancellation fee for my trouble. I angrily called customer service and they hung up on me because I didn’t have the time in that moment to respond to 20 questions. So I ordered an Uber instead, which was “way mo’” effective in getting me where I needed to go. If this company is the future, then our future is even dumber than the present.
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First Waymo ride
Super easy to use. Felt safe and very clean car
Pretty cool for a dangerous problem
Driving is dangerous. Anything can happen. Are you better off with a robot driving? If something goes wrong, could the machine have avoided it? If you figure most accidents are due to human error driving and a machine can avoid all that, how do you feel about machine errors that a human would have avoided? If machines make fewer mistakes, are we better off taking a chance with unknown problems?
My first trip was today. It was a delight and had no such problem. I shuffled the music and didn’t have to tip anyone.
My first trip was today. It was a delight and had no such problem. I shuffled the music and didn’t have to tip anyone.
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