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Tutlesofpies t1_it0p0wa wrote

Oh God I hope it lasts more than a day with how people be acting these days

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blu_mOOn_2020 t1_it1c9q0 wrote

Cameras inside for now. Eventually every person that hails one will be pre-screen...

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Pufflekun t1_itr7v5n wrote

Okay, but what's to stop pedestrians from trashing the shit out of the cameras?

The police‽ In LA‽ Nowadays, they won't even look at black people for fear of losing their job over racism, never mind actually arresting a black person for something as "small" as destruction of property and endangering others. If >0% of the future vandals are black (and that's a pretty safe assumption to make), this company is gonna have a problem.

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blu_mOOn_2020 t1_its3uok wrote

True. So businesses will adapt...stop doing business at certain areas and certain times if the crime is that bad, restrictions will apply until city/police will be there to protect property. What's going to happen is security becomes a big part of life, or no business services will be there. It's a bit dyspotian, yes it will be if future remains on this destructive course.

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Pufflekun t1_its6eri wrote

> What's going to happen is security becomes a big part of life, or no business services will be there.

Going to happen? San Francisco is already lost! Virtually nobody with a business there is staying there. And LA is getting close to that point.

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blu_mOOn_2020 t1_its7dx4 wrote

There are still businesses to service the population, so the dyspotian scernio hadn't happened...yet. But when society is forced to adapt to this, above is what's going to happen down the road.

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Test19s t1_it25392 wrote

Who would win? 100 primitive Autobots vs 500 crackheads?

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nick7566 OP t1_it0kn8p wrote

>Waymo said it plans to launch a robotaxi service in Los Angeles, another sign that the Alphabet subsidiary is accelerating its commercial ramp up.
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>Waymo has had a presence in Los Angeles since 2019, periodically coming in to map neighborhoods, including downtown, Miracle Mile, Koreatown, Santa Monica, Westwood and West Hollywood.
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>The announcement Wednesday has a decidedly more commercial aim. Initially, more than a dozen Waymo autonomous vehicles will be in Los Angeles and scale from there, according to Waymo’s new chief product officer Saswat Panigrahi, who most recently was vice president of strategy, product management and data science.
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>The intent, he added, is that this will be a driverless robotaxi service that will operate 24 hours a day. In the run up to its eventual launch, Waymo is partnering with local groups MADD California and Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition.

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Darryl_Lict t1_it0zkn6 wrote

Has anyone here taken one yet? I think I saw one in San Francisco, but I guess they have an operator to monitor things and you have to be enrolled in a special program to take one. I guess they have fully autonomous taxis in Phoenix, which I suppose is less of a challenge than in San Francisco since no one walks anywhere there.

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EndersInfinite t1_itg8csv wrote

They are all over San Francisco, last time I was there (around the start of 2022), I would probably see 5+ per day. At this point I believe there is a pilot program where regular people can have summon a car to come get there, and there is no safety driver.

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FuturologyBot t1_it0okip wrote

The following submission statement was provided by /u/nick7566:

>Waymo said it plans to launch a robotaxi service in Los Angeles, another sign that the Alphabet subsidiary is accelerating its commercial ramp up.
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>Waymo has had a presence in Los Angeles since 2019, periodically coming in to map neighborhoods, including downtown, Miracle Mile, Koreatown, Santa Monica, Westwood and West Hollywood.
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>The announcement Wednesday has a decidedly more commercial aim. Initially, more than a dozen Waymo autonomous vehicles will be in Los Angeles and scale from there, according to Waymo’s new chief product officer Saswat Panigrahi, who most recently was vice president of strategy, product management and data science.
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>The intent, he added, is that this will be a driverless robotaxi service that will operate 24 hours a day. In the run up to its eventual launch, Waymo is partnering with local groups MADD California and Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition.

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curiouscitizen24 t1_itedlgg wrote

While electrifying ridesharing and pushing for EV adoption is exciting, cities across the U.S need more charging infrastructure. According to this article, Los Angeles needs 2 to 4 times more public and workplace chargers by 2030 than were in place at the end of 2019 to keep up with the city's zero emissions targets for vehicles.

https://theicct.org/publication/los-angeles-electric-vehicle-charging-infrastructure-needs-and-implications-for-zero-emission-area-planning/#:~:text=By%202030%2C%20direct%20current%20fast,least%2025%2C000%20chargers%20by%202030.

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