Post #3962879
2026-07-20 15:21 UTC
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Robotaxi riders are falling asleep, sparking frantic emergency service calls
straitstimes.com/…/robotaxi-riders-are-falling-as…
So many robotaxi customers have nodded off in the midst of a ride that Austin police and firefighters even have a name for the incidents: “sleepers”. The Texas capital recorded 99 such calls in Waymo’s first nine months of service there, said Roger Patterson, a commander with Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services.
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@sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 2026-07-20 15:29
Apparently it’s cheaper to foist the job of waking passengers up on 911 than to hire an employee to do it. Good ol’ privatize the gains / socialize the losses!