Cleaning Up Poop: The Human Labor Behind Waymo
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Human feces isn’t even the nastiest thing they’ve found in the backseat.
Waymo markets itself as fully automated: “Welcome to the future,” reads one of its many billboard and bus stop advertisements. The Alphabet subsidiary offers customers the opportunity to put on makeup, sleep, or simply relax your way through rush hour — as if a passenger couldn’t do those things in a human-driven cab. While currently operating as a robotaxi service, Waymo envisions itself as already welcoming you to a future in which you will own a self-driving car that, as Waymo claims, never “gets tired, angry, or distracted.” But Bay Area Current readers know not to believe the hype, or…
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