<story><title>Uber’s self-driving cars start picking up passengers in San Francisco</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/14/ubers-self-driving-cars-start-picking-up-passengers-in-san-francisco/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>autotune</author><text>The problem with this is, as a rider, I personally would not want to have to be constantly expecting a dirty car. If one out of every 3 cars has vomit or syringes in it or feces, I would personally stick with a service that has human drivers at the wheel.</text></item><item><author>amelius</author><text>I imagine that the next user would just tap a button on their smartphone saying that the car is dirty, upon which the car drives back to a service center and the user receives a new car (not the same car).</text></item><item><author>autotune</author><text>How is this going to combat people who make a mess inside the vehicle after going 100 percent without human drivers&amp;#x2F;test engineers? If it picks up a drunk person at 3 AM who then throws up inside the car, is it vomit-aware and knows it needs a cleaning before picking up the next passenger?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>linkregister</author><text>This is remedied with a service charge for the responsible person.&lt;p&gt;Unlike a Tenderloin sidewalk, deterrents are easily enforced under a scheme like this.&lt;p&gt;Uber and Lyft currently charge $100 for a cleaning fee to the driver when their passengers soil a car&amp;#x27;s interior with vomit, etc.  I don&amp;#x27;t see why Waymo, Tesla, or Uber would be any different.</text></comment>
<story><title>Uber’s self-driving cars start picking up passengers in San Francisco</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/14/ubers-self-driving-cars-start-picking-up-passengers-in-san-francisco/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>autotune</author><text>The problem with this is, as a rider, I personally would not want to have to be constantly expecting a dirty car. If one out of every 3 cars has vomit or syringes in it or feces, I would personally stick with a service that has human drivers at the wheel.</text></item><item><author>amelius</author><text>I imagine that the next user would just tap a button on their smartphone saying that the car is dirty, upon which the car drives back to a service center and the user receives a new car (not the same car).</text></item><item><author>autotune</author><text>How is this going to combat people who make a mess inside the vehicle after going 100 percent without human drivers&amp;#x2F;test engineers? If it picks up a drunk person at 3 AM who then throws up inside the car, is it vomit-aware and knows it needs a cleaning before picking up the next passenger?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonknee</author><text>Zipcar and Reach Now don&amp;#x27;t seem to have an issue with this, I would be surprised if it&amp;#x27;s any different when you don&amp;#x27;t have to the move the steering wheel yourself. If they can make a car that drives itself they can surely figure out a way to keep it clean.</text></comment>