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I'm in LA, so I'm still skeptical about "safer". Granted, that's not a high bar, but I know who's accountable if an Uber/Lyft crashes.
The driver whose main asset was the car that just crashed, and whose insurance may or may not be valid?
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How much karma do you need to have before you're trusted to flag and vouch for comments?
A trivial amount you've had for ages (31 karma[0] - although it's not public, I'm sure the unofficial guides adjust accordingly) [0]: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#flaggi...
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it's actually pretty easy to automate the state of the vehicle. if anything is left in the car the video is sent to an operator. The service instructs a cleaner to check the car and the passenger is sent a warning and eventually is banned from using the service.
And when margins compress the first thing that will go is the threshold for cleaning. Cleaning is not just expensive in labor but also taking a car out of circulation. All incentives point towards lowering standards to the absolute minimum people will tolerate.
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Would a CCPA delete request handle it? Or are they compelled to keep the video for legal reasons
First, I never heard of CCPA before this post. Wiki tells me: > Reading that Wiki page also taught me about the follow-up act passed by ballot prop: >. (Wow... pretty strong!) I like your idea. I think it would be a worthy experience for someone on HN to contact Waymo after taking some rides and ask about videos taken during their ride. Do they have a system to request removal? Also: What are their rights under CCPA?…
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A trivial amount you've had for ages (31 karma[0] - although it's not public, I'm sure the unofficial guides adjust accordingly) [0]: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#flaggi...
I wonder why I've never had that ability then.
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Is this some sort of a scam? The driver cannot even mark the ride as completed without being in the area right? So they have to drive it anyway. I can’t imagine they would be on the platform for long if this happened on a regular basis. I would say it’s probably an accident but how could this behavior be accidental? Someone might accidentally say that they picked you up, but they couldn’t accidentally then drive an e…
Maybe they picked up the wrong person and neither of them realized?
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Charge back with your credit card if Lyft isn't willing to help you. Keep businesses in check.
If you really want to delete the app, a chargeback is the surest way to permanently remove yourself from the platform.
This is as much about Uber/Lyft, as it is about the (nonexistent) level of politeness in the vest (US+Europe). Have you ever taken a Uber in Japan? The driver will make him/herself invisible. The space in the car is, factually, your space. No phone conversations on their part, no music, no odours. Waymo won't thrive in Japan, because it offers nothing extra advantages to regular Uber. We suck in the west in terms of…