Comment by standardUser

2 days ago

On the upside, I've had Uber drivers in multiple countries help me buy drugs. Waymo hasn't hooked me up even once.

Knowing how economics works, this will lead to specialization.

Human drivers will become more likely to offer extra services like drugs, company and entertainment. Silent careful drivers will be driven out by Waymo.

  • and from the top, management's application of wage-descent games is making steady progress, externalizing the largest tolerable side-hustle

    illicit retail is the natural symbiosis of optimized service labor

It could be good business for AI cars to start doing this too. You can't put an algorithm in prison, and the programmers can just say its a black box and nobody could possibly understand how it trained itself to do it. The company makes money off the extra rides, while having plausible deniability because maybe the customer just wanted a ride. IANAL.