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[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 27 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

“The men came over to the car again and stood in front of it for a few minutes. Finally when they left, the car was still stalled but I clicked the ‘in car support’ on the screen and they seemed to be aware of the issue,” Amina said. “They asked if I was OK and the car began to drive towards my location. They asked if I needed police support and I said no.”

When she was almost to her destination, Waymo support called her again to ask if she was ok, she said. “I assured him that I was fine and he told me I would be given a free ride after,” she said. “After many hours I was called one last time by their support team. They asked if I was OK and told me that they have 24/7 support available. They also said I would get the next ride or next two rides (uncertain) free.”

While scary, I'm left kinda impressed by Waymo's support.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 9 points 16 hours ago

100% that is brilliant levels of support.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 39 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

This is why driverless cars are a bad idea, they assume that everything will work as intended and everyone will play by the rules.

You need a human to make a snap decision in cases like these.

I hope these men are arrested for sexual solicitation via coercion (could be tried as attempted rape in the right state), disrupting traffic, sexual harassment, public disturbance. Fuck em, or better yet, don't fuck em, they're unfuck worthy.

What were these morons thinking? I'm sex positive as hell, I'm all for bringing back the free love of the 70's and the LSD of the 60's, but not like this, never anything like this... Hypothetically bro say you do get her number this way?

The fuck happens next?

"Hey remember me, I'm the dipshit who pressured you into giving me this number by trapping you in your car via exploitation of its safety features? So I'll pick you up at 7 for a romantic candlelit dinner and afterwards we could go see a movi..." click "Hello? Damn, friendzoned again."

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 12 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Let’s not go too far overboard. These guys are assholes who deserve some consequences. However the article didn’t include anything that looked like attempted rape, nothing violent, no direct threat of harm (indirect, maybe). Let’s try to be proportional here

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Definitely a false imprisonment charge though

[–] gallopingsnail@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

I guess I missed the part where you're not free to literally get out of the car and leave?

Edit: the two guys definitely deserve harassment and disturbing the peace charges.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

If you're a female, you are going to get out of the car to get in the street and hang out with these 2 males harassing you on the street? She's definitely safer in the car. The 2 males are keeping her prisoner in the car against her will. the car cannot leave, and she cannot get out.

[–] Abnorc@lemm.ee 1 points 15 hours ago

Driverless cars can work if enough vehicles are replaced with them. I agree that a few driverless cars in a sea of regular drivers is not optimal though.

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[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's enough footage etc I guess for them to be identified and arrested, wonder if that's happening

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