{"id":174,"date":"2023-10-18T13:51:19","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T13:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/?p=174"},"modified":"2024-10-02T18:22:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T22:22:14","slug":"autonomous-taxis-are-boring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/2023\/10\/18\/autonomous-taxis-are-boring\/","title":{"rendered":"Autonomous taxis are boring"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 720px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-174-1\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/autonomous-taxi-ride.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/autonomous-taxi-ride.mp4\">https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/autonomous-taxi-ride.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>I took several rides in Google&#8217;s Waymo robotaxi. This is a short video of the experience, which is great, almost flawless. One problem is that it gets boring really fast.<\/p>\n<p>About half the time during my trip, I used Uber or Lyft instead of a Waymo, and I met a professional dancer, a retired chef, a compliance officer, a criminal justice expert, an Amazon truck driver, and a painter.<\/p>\n<p>I had really fun conversations that touched on &#8220;AI&#8221; and dance music, the best old school restaurants in town, the private equity fundraising process, cybersecurity, privacy, more &#8220;AI&#8221; and so on. As a bonus, almost all of the conversations included some useful, local information about the city.<\/p>\n<p>None of the robotaxi rides had any of this, serendipity was nonexistent. The robot feels friendly, sure, but that&#8217;s about it. The longer the ride, the more boring it gets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took several rides in Google&#8217;s Waymo robotaxi. This is a short video of the experience, which is great, almost flawless. One problem is that it gets boring really fast. About half the time during my trip, I used Uber or Lyft instead of a Waymo, and I met a professional dancer, a retired chef, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":911,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}