The car sent the San Mateo PD a report that the riders had toy projectile emitters (aka "guns," I suppose) they were using to shoot pellets at passers-by. It pulled into a parking lot until cops arrived. It doesn't report if it locked the riders in.
I was just thinking I want to try at least one joyride but no, now I'm not even interested in giving them those $20.
I'm 99% sure that a human made these decisions after viewing the cameras in the vehicle, not that the Waymo vehicle itself decided to contact the police and park in a parking lot with these kids.
This honestly seems pretty ideal. In a dangerous situation, the only risk is property damage - there's no driver to threaten!
I disagree. A decent response would have been for the car to simply refuse to continue the ride rather than kidnapping the ne'er-do-wells.
That Waymo did this means that the hesitations I had about using the service are amplified by a few orders of magnitude. I'm not willing to risk someone at Waymo (or, worse, a machine at Waymo) making the wrong call and kidnapping me by mistake.
> A decent response would have been for the car to simply refuse to continue the ride rather than kidnapping the ne'er-do-wells.
It seems that's what exactly what they did? Except also called the police which seems the responsible thing to do when dropping drunk kids off somewhere
One time I was settling into a long Waymo ride (about 15 miles through traffic) and it was rolling down a wide urban street where a white English-speaking guy like me is distinctly a minority.
And I was playing Pat Benatar's "Hit Me with Your Best Shot" with the windows wide open, and waving at other cars, and singing along at the top of my lungs, and eventually, Waymo Support rings in, and the guy goes, "just checking in! Is everything alright there?" and I go "er... yeah" and he goes "OK! thank you bye!"
So I decided maybe there had been an external complaint, and I should perhaps keep the windows up, and the music down a few notches from now on. Especially as a minority in such a neighborhood like that one.
AI is just a tool. The real responsibility belongs to the developers, companies, and users who decide how it's built and used—not the AI itself. Anyway, that's insane. But if they were trying to damage the car, I can understand why Waymo reported them to the police.
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[ 7.2 ms ] story [ 68.9 ms ] threadThe car sent the San Mateo PD a report that the riders had toy projectile emitters (aka "guns," I suppose) they were using to shoot pellets at passers-by. It pulled into a parking lot until cops arrived. It doesn't report if it locked the riders in.
I was just thinking I want to try at least one joyride but no, now I'm not even interested in giving them those $20.
This honestly seems pretty ideal. In a dangerous situation, the only risk is property damage - there's no driver to threaten!
I disagree. A decent response would have been for the car to simply refuse to continue the ride rather than kidnapping the ne'er-do-wells.
That Waymo did this means that the hesitations I had about using the service are amplified by a few orders of magnitude. I'm not willing to risk someone at Waymo (or, worse, a machine at Waymo) making the wrong call and kidnapping me by mistake.
It seems that's what exactly what they did? Except also called the police which seems the responsible thing to do when dropping drunk kids off somewhere
And I was playing Pat Benatar's "Hit Me with Your Best Shot" with the windows wide open, and waving at other cars, and singing along at the top of my lungs, and eventually, Waymo Support rings in, and the guy goes, "just checking in! Is everything alright there?" and I go "er... yeah" and he goes "OK! thank you bye!"
So I decided maybe there had been an external complaint, and I should perhaps keep the windows up, and the music down a few notches from now on. Especially as a minority in such a neighborhood like that one.
You cannot detain someone because you do not like their behavior, in almost all situations. In civilised countries
It is called kidnapping