Last year, San Francisco authorized Waymo to pick up and drop off passengers on a car-free street. Now, private drivers think they, too, can travel on the street
2d 1h ago by lemmy.zip/u/Valuy in mildlyinfuriating from www.sfgate.com
I mean if you let cars on a car-free street, it's not a car-free street.
Edit: okay wow it's even worse than the headline says. Waymos aren't even going on the road, it's manned Uber and Lyft rides. No wonder people are confused.
I read a story about a guy who had access to different roads on both sides of his property, so he would use both. Problem was once Google maps sees one driver going down a road (his property), it sends all drivers down that road. I expect that's what's going on here, once one pickup driver does it it's open season on Google maps. Not sure if Uber or Lyft have their own software or a special overlay that doesn't send it back to Google/Apple.
Just ran into something similar with a new business I was doing contract work with before they were open to public. I would drive down a back alley behind the building, park in employee only parking, and enter through the back door. Now Google Maps thinks the back lot is public parking and the back door is the entrance. I've tried to correct it multiple times now and it still directs people down the alley and to the rear of the building.
Same at our work. Google is sending customers to the private back alley behind the building (access from a totally different road!), and then they're confused, calling us to open the gate
I've seen Uber drivers just using Waze
Corruption is the only explanation as to why an automatic car has more rights than a regular car.
And class war is why only the luxury ride hailing services are permitted (Uber and Lyft Black).
"These regulatory carve outs are meant to boost the profits of Silicon Valley, and destroy local jobs, not for use by the peasants"
Fuck cars. Fuck big private tech.