Uber was supposed to help traffic. It didn’t. Robotaxis will be even worse::px-captcha

  • bob_wiley@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’ve taken Uber pools in the US before. I’m guessing a lot of people wouldn’t because it’s not that much extra to get your own car, and it avoids any unknowns. For example, I booked an Uber pool, I was first to be picked up… just me. We stop to get someone else and it was a couple. They were nice and seemed clean, but we were pretty cozy in the backseat with 3 of us. Most people, at least in the US, don’t want that much skin to skin contact with a complete stranger for 20 minutes.

    With another Uber pool I took, the driver didn’t even know what was going on. I assume this is some kind of training issue. He seemed really overwhelmed, because he had picked someone up, but the app kept telling him to pick up more people. I ended up explaining it to him. The girl who was in the car already didn’t seem to speak English, so she wasn’t able to offer him much help.