We now know that Waymo has the capability to kidnap any passenger and take them anywhere without their permission.
@lauren JFC what happened now?
@lauren I'm about 99.9% sure that it's even legal somehow.
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Funnily enough I was teaching my Science Fiction and Information Ethics session today, in which I doscuss Spielberg's Minority Report and this precise issue it raises.
Going to share the link to thenees reportwith my students about this.
@antdude The parameters of Tesla's "robotaxi" service aren't entirely clear. But they need to have remote control capabilities, so there's no obvious technical reason why they couldn't perform in similar ways.
@lauren the law can't be enforced against them, and they can enforce laws. they are freelance police
@lauren Makes you wonder what their emergency response is when there's a fire (weren't those guys shooting stuff out the windows?)
Shouldn't the car emergency stop and evacuate in case of fire?
@lauren The stuff of nightmares.
@lauren Context: A self-driving Waymo just reported its own passengers to police - Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/91570761/a-self-driving-waymo-just-reported-its-own-passengers-to-police
This was in an episode from “Silicon Valley”
