The kneejerk response [to two people being arrested in California for having an AR in a Waymo] — “This is the surveillance industrial complex run amok” — misses that these youths would have had the same result whether it was a human or an AI driving their taxi. Waving a gun around in the back seat of someone else’s car has always been a fast way to get the driver to end the trip.
Where this gets more interesting is that as they become ubiquitous, self-driving cars will blur the line between a car being yours or someone else’s. Today, self-driving mode on a Tesla that you own still does whatever you want. But how about a car that you only own a share of? Or a Waymo in a world where 80% of cars on the road are Waymos and the like? Waving a gun around in the back seat is always going to catch the “driver’s” attention, but how about loading a bunch of guns into the trunk for a trip to the range? Or saving some time by loading mags on the road? Any YouTuber with a gun channel can tell you how little they trust Google, Waymo’s parent company, to exercise good judgment on how to serve lawful gun owners.
— Open Source Defense in Surveillance and gun ownership are getting waymo complicated
Human cab drivers have passed on information to the police all the time. And have for hundreds of years. Why is a robot any different?
And the three L’s were comfortable with private multi billion dollar technology companies, and banks ending the accounts of gun businesses without notice.
I am not putting “On Star” in my POV. Like so many others have. I don’t have an LG television. And I don’t have Apple Siri.
I don’t want the Apple watch. Like so many others do. And they still read the book “1984”!!!
Human created technology without morals is the real danger. Like the gun. The question is what type of person is using it???
Does it violate the Waymo terms and conditions to have a firearm with you?
If not and you’re just headed to the range with a cased gun and Waymo decides to make a big stink about it with cops and all you may be able to profit.
Could be a neat get rich quick scheme.
It’s down in the 300th paragraph of 6 point agate type, along with owing them your first-born child.
You couldn’t pay me to get into one of those things for any reason. I’d walk first.