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[–] nfultz@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

via dumpsterfire

Robotaxi riders are falling asleep, sparking frantic emergency service calls

https://www.straitstimes.com/life/motoring/robotaxi-riders-are-falling-asleep-sparking-frantic-emergency-service-calls

So many robotaxi customers have nodded off in the midst of a ride that Austin police and firefighters even have a name for the incidents: “sleepers”. The Texas capital recorded 99 such calls in Waymo’s first nine months of service there, said Roger Patterson, a commander with Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services.

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Apparently it's cheaper to foist the job of waking passengers up on 911 than to hire an employee to do it. Good ol' privatize the gains / socialize the losses!

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 6 points 14 hours ago

The relation of tech and emergency services is something I became acutely aware of, when my volunteer firefighter unit recently got 2 alarms in one week that turned out to be someone lost his IPhone driving through a curve. (Apparently they have a G-sensor/accident detector and can robocall emergency services.)

Okay, it's not that common. IPhones do that for years and those 2 were our only cases of that. Still sucks to get the news via radio, when you're already in full kit ready to roll.