Self Driving Taxis Are Doomed To Be Rolling Cesspools

With the entire automotive industry looking toward a future of driverless mobility, commercially owned self-driving taxis seem poised to be on the frontline of tomorrow. However, nobody seemed to realize that these vehicles will eventually become little more than mobile toilets.

Animals are universally disgusting and humans are no exception. While we’ve mastered land, air, and sea, consider the spaces we occupy while we traverse those expanses. Rental cars are returned filled with candy wrappers, spilt soda, and human hair. Uber vehicles are routinely vomited in. The subway is a haven for disease. Airplane interiors experience havoc within the first hour of a flight as the worst of us begin defecating into the seats, too lazy and weak to control ourselves.

dumpsty - 7/14/2017 1:48:55 PM

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This is kind of a true aspect of driverless tech. What are the logistic behind supporting safe & clean vehicles for taxi customers? How many people will pass on that taxi ride upon seeing a filthy interior. Who'd be checking that regularly?

It only takes a few seconds of video on social media to ruin daily business & stock prices.

MorePower - 7/16/2017 7:48:09 AM

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Open your minds!!!!

I'm sure passengers will be able to tell the cab owner that the vehicle is filthy or the cab will be able to tell when it needs to be taken out of service for cleaning, probably by a human . . . maybe by a human.

If you can teach a car to drive obey safety and traffic laws, you can teach it to detect when a human passenger vomits, defecates, spills liquid or leaves a bag full of dog/baby poop in the backseat.

MorePower - 7/16/2017 7:49:42 AM

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The cab will also know whom to send the bill to for the cleaning.

CANADIANCOMMENTS - 7/17/2017 8:26:24 PM

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If the autonomous vehicle is part of a business that competes for dollars against other businesses, they will have all the incentive in the world to keep their vehicles clean.