• febra@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Yet another case of the poor funneling their money to the 1%.

    The working class pays local taxes to fund the police and the fire department. The 1% make money by operating on a business model that relies on these taxpayer funded services to unfuck their product out of fucked situations. Thus the taxpayers unwillingly subsidize the 1% with their tax money. As such, the taxpayer funded services degrade because the fire department/police department have to babysit a private company’s products instead of attending to business they’re actually paid to do.

  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org
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    4 days ago

    But this was not an isolated incident. Waymo has relied on taxpayer-funded first responders to navigate its vehicles when they encounter issues

    This should be more than enough reason to cancel their operating permit (whatever it is called) immediately.

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      4 days ago

      Do you think normal cars don’t occasionally break down in the middle of traffic and need to be moved out of the way by cops?

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        4 days ago

        Normal cars don’t do that (or maybe statistically next to never).

        Think yourself: there would have been no news at all here if these cars did it as rarely as normal cars.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    I thought Waymo was the one using overseas drivers to help when needed?

    I’m looking forward to the schadenfreude when all this stupid “AI” shit finally blows up.