Human beings are never short of inspiration when it comes to “keeping busy”, and for some, a taxi ride seems like the perfect way to do it. To the great dismay of the companies, which obviously did not see the scale of this phenomenon coming.
After all, who can spot you in a self-driving vehicle if not…everyone?
Love Taxi
For the past few days, the American companies Waymo and Cruise have been authorized to deploy their fleet 24 hours a day in San Francisco. Locals and other visitors can now order a self-driving taxi any time of the day to get wherever they want. The news is significant, because it could set a precedent for all major cities in the world, and for an industry that has invested a lot of time and money in these technologies. But we can also expect many miscellaneous facts to accumulate over the kilometers traveled by these new hybrid bikes. What feed the news and their detractors for some time.
In any case, the customers were not long in coming. contacted by San Francisco Standard, many of them claim to have had sex in passing vehicles. If there is obviously no concrete proof of these assertions, invoices seem to attest to them, at least according to the newspaper. And anyway, all this will not surprise many people. THE Standard cites a research article, published in 2019, announcing that sex tourism in fall vehicles will be an increasingly widespread phenomenon, to the point of replacing love hotels among many followers.
However, for customers contacted by the Californian newspaper, the journeys were not the most comfortable. For now, it would be mostly a new experience. ” The fact of being in public and the taboo that surrounds this experience make it even more fun and exciting “explains a client. We can also assume that the traffic jams in San Francisco make the journeys… a little too long.
Is there a camera in this car?
What do Cruise and Waymo think? The two firms have not yet made any explicit comments on the subject. The first, the only one concerned by the practice for the moment, made a reminder of its community rules. It states that clients should behave in a respectful manner and not engage in activities ” offensive or inappropriate to others », outside and inside the vehicle. On the other hand, nothing is specified on sexual activities. Same story at Waymo, where we add that passengers are asked to respect the cars and keep them clean. Consumption of alcohol is also prohibited, as is smoking of any kind.
These services are still in their infancy, and we can expect their regulations to evolve and become clearer. In the meantime, the show must be on the rendezvous in certain streets of San Francisco, because the windows of the autonomous cars which circulate there are not tinted. In addition, the interior and exterior of these vehicles are equipped with cameras for security reasons, ensure Waymo and Cruise. It is therefore certain that the activities of their customers were, at least for a time, recorded on their servers. Enough to embarrass almost all the protagonists.
Source : Mashable
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