This wasn’t the first time Waymo has tattled on alleged troublemakers. In July, Waymo contacted the San Mateo Police Department after two teens were found drinking alcohol and shooting toy guns in the back of a car, authorities said at the time.
“Out of the car and on the ground, Citizen! Your Waymo has reported you are in possession of ‘Wage Labor And Capital’.”
So the goal will be to get in these fucking things and just start making wild claims. And when they pull over and arrest you then you sue for freedom of speech and eavesdropping laws. Have what you said typed out and claim its practice for a play or speech.
Waymo goes out of its way to tell you that there are no microphones to comply with privacy laws, but you are being filmed.
The article suggests that the kids had the guns out in plain view. The police found several guns, including a loaded assault rifle when they searched.
ACAB, but I am not mad that the children had their black market guns taken away.
Imagine my disappointment that this isn’t some X-Files shit
That’s the future people. Not flying cars over rainbows but self-driving prisons in dystopia.
Tech people are colluding with the government and the government is currently in the business of stealing tax payer money through private prisons. Everyone needs to stop using their products for their own safety.
I would suggest people read the article. Their is no way in hell an Taxi/Uber driver would be ok with kids bringing a “Loaded AR Style Assault Rifle” into their car.
No Taxi/Uber driver would pull over and lock the kids in while calling the cops either.
It seems like a pretty weird outlier event in which the worst thing did not happen.
I would want anyone on the street to report children going around with that gun. Call me crazy.
Yes, and, the precedent it sets is scary. What if a waymo camera spots what it thinks is a bag of weed in your pocket in Texas and calls the cops while locking you in? Isn’t that false imprisonment or kidnapping? No private citizen or company has the right to retain someone else against their will.
I agree with that for the most part.
I’m not sure if being children has another layer to it in this case. To a point, school are not accused of false imprisonment if they “detained” a misbehaving child in detention. It is not obvious to me Waymo did something illegal or immortal.
But overall I agree we should pay attention and the same facts with an 18 year old would probably be different (gun probably legal, ect).
Schools aren’t because parents give them a right to care for the children involved. It doesn’t work that way in a waymo. You can be prevented from leaving a school because from a specific time to a specific time your parents have agreed you will be on the premesis in the care of the faculty.
And the parents made zero agreements with Waymo before putting their kids in one? Sounds pretty unlikely.
Depends on if Waymo allowed teens (who can sign up for their own accounts and can have debit cards) to sign up without parental consent. If a parent or guardian ordered the Waymo for them? Probably an agreement for that.
Otherwise though, it’s just as likely they entered into no such agreement.
Of course, they also didn’t agree with allow their children to be trapped in the Waymo against their will. Show me that fine print in any ride share service’s TOS/EULA etc. I would love to see it.
