Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides on freeways in LA, SF and Phoenix

I am really excited for this. Once going home with my family via Uber in SFO we realized on the freeway that our driver was high and driving at 80-85 mph.

It was a really scary experience and I couldn’t do much about it in the moment.

high on what?

Does it matter? Can't think of a single substance that's safe for driving a car.

Speed?

mj likely? which should be illegal.

How could you tell they were high?

High on life!

> How could you tell they were high?

In New York it's not too difficult. Fidgitiness, twitchiness, rambling series of non sequiturs that make even my ADD brain rattle. Screaming at traffic and running on the margin one second and then asking me if I know that the archangel who visited Muhammed was actually a demon the next. (I'm not Muslim. The conversation wasn't addressed to anyone in the vehicle.)

Like, I guess I can't say they're taking too much of a substance. But if they aren't, they're taking too little.

Amphetamines certainly

One time my driver had a TV show playing on their dashboard phone on 101.

antidepressants?

Make sure to do whatever "express interest" is required inside the app. We've often done a first-come, first-served approach for getting people off of waitlists, so get in now :).

This happens to me >70% in the Bay peninsula now.