To get from point A to point B I would assume. Id be way more concerned about someone getting in to shoot up and OD'ing in there. Instead of getting a taxi you end up with a dead body delivery.
Sounds like, "what else are you going to do on a 12hr flight. Of course you should watch porn and jackoff in your seat".
I'd just post the videos in public. The riders will hopefully get fired from their jobs as their employeer's can't handle the controversy and quickly people will learn that sex is a robotaxis is sex in public and learn to behave.
I have no problem if you buy your own level 5 car and have sex in it. I have a much bigger problem with people having sex in shared vehicles that are not cleaned between riders.
People take taxis when they are drunk. People are more likely to engage in sex while drunk. People take taxis when they want a degree of privacy as they travel, as opposed to busses. People are more likely to have sex when in a semi-private space. A taxi provides a degree of physical security, a barrier between you and the mob. Why is this a surprise? In SF I expect that some taxi startup will soon target this market directly.
I don't take taxi for the privacy but because public transports suck in Paris at night. Past 2AM the metro doesn't works, the train to Versailles (next to where I live) doesn't work, the bus to my city also doesn't works.
The second biggest issue when taking public transport while drunk, is sleeping and missing your stop.
Slightly related, but found it interesting that the main image on what is at least semi-purported to be a news article is a midjourney AI image (though kudos to the article for clearly identifying this).
Stock photo businesses are deaaaaad.
Edit: though if you look at it the actual configuration of this "back seat of the taxi" in this image is completely bizarre.
If the two of you are having an affair, you can take the whole $250 hotel room and 30 minutes’ drive each way/each person and replace it with a $20 driverless taxi and literally get the entire sordid experience delivered to your door.
The “I don’t think that’ll be a thing” is adorable, like people thinking hotels that rent by the hour are geared toward people who just need a couple hours of sleep.
I see this blurring the lines between OnlyFans and transportation- get the transport service for free in exchange for the footage. Unless you’re terrible to watch, then it’s merely discounted.
If people watch Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, why wouldn’t they pay to watch this?
> Maybe it'll be a little higher than 'sex in regular cars' but I doubt it'll be measurable.
It's going to be super measurable and that's why there's already an article about it: if you're two in a regular car, with one person driving, you can't really have sex (it's doable I guess but dangerous and illegal).
Now if you're three in a regular car, with a driver, the two that could have sex typically wouldn't (for privacy reasons: they don't want to do it next to the driver, except in some cases).
I don't doubt that some regular cab drivers had people having sex in their taxi but I'm willing to bet that 99% of the time when they take two people, these two people aren't having sex.
Lustified horny people have never broken the law in pursuit of having sex.
There's a video on pornhub of a couple having sex in a full self driving Tesla and Elon Musk even commented on it! I guess the question is, does road head count as "sex"?
Amusing little article while this is still a novel service. If this is actually happening, it will stop almost immediately because the combination of passenger-facing cameras and non-anonymous rides will get you barred for life.
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They'll probably eventually get shittified like everything else and refuse to move if you're not staring at ads in the cabin.
omg, don't give them ideas! Oh wait, someone just patented this and is seeking VC funding.
Yes, you still pay the full fare.
Yes, it is fucking obnoxious.
No, there is no power off or mute button; none that I could find, anyway.
These would almost certainly be repurposed for prostitution, though.
Gay-themed ones might give new meaning to the term "cruising".
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What's the point of me taking a robotaxi if the two people before me could potentially have had sex in it?
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I'd just post the videos in public. The riders will hopefully get fired from their jobs as their employeer's can't handle the controversy and quickly people will learn that sex is a robotaxis is sex in public and learn to behave.
I have no problem if you buy your own level 5 car and have sex in it. I have a much bigger problem with people having sex in shared vehicles that are not cleaned between riders.
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Having known several taxi drivers myself, the main difference is likely there's nobody to yell at you to clean up after yourself.
Nobody there to see it but also no human to confide in after a late night.
The second biggest issue when taking public transport while drunk, is sleeping and missing your stop.
Stock photo businesses are deaaaaad.
Edit: though if you look at it the actual configuration of this "back seat of the taxi" in this image is completely bizarre.
If the two of you are having an affair, you can take the whole $250 hotel room and 30 minutes’ drive each way/each person and replace it with a $20 driverless taxi and literally get the entire sordid experience delivered to your door.
The “I don’t think that’ll be a thing” is adorable, like people thinking hotels that rent by the hour are geared toward people who just need a couple hours of sleep.
I see this blurring the lines between OnlyFans and transportation- get the transport service for free in exchange for the footage. Unless you’re terrible to watch, then it’s merely discounted.
If people watch Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, why wouldn’t they pay to watch this?
It's going to be super measurable and that's why there's already an article about it: if you're two in a regular car, with one person driving, you can't really have sex (it's doable I guess but dangerous and illegal).
Now if you're three in a regular car, with a driver, the two that could have sex typically wouldn't (for privacy reasons: they don't want to do it next to the driver, except in some cases).
I don't doubt that some regular cab drivers had people having sex in their taxi but I'm willing to bet that 99% of the time when they take two people, these two people aren't having sex.
Lustified horny people have never broken the law in pursuit of having sex.
There's a video on pornhub of a couple having sex in a full self driving Tesla and Elon Musk even commented on it! I guess the question is, does road head count as "sex"?
Either they're unaware that they have no expectation of privacy in self-driving car, or they welcome being watched
Hopefully the latter.