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Uber and Lyft ultimately were willing to play ball with cities as long as the charges were predictable. Same thing for Waymo.

David Zipper@davidzipper.bsky.social

I agree with @rmtransit.bsky.social: Robotaxis strengthen the case for congestion pricing (which was already compelling). His post about Waymo's newly announced launch in Toronto: www.thetransitbrief.net/p/waymo-is-c...

18/10/26, 3:55 am1 repost9 likes

Sam G

@samthegeek.net

Externalities can be priced, and should be priced. And then the robotaxi companies will decide if they can still make money given the costs of the externalities. Seems fair, even.

Sam G

@samthegeek.net

In fact, because Waymo will know exactly how many miles their vehicles drove empty, you can tax them based on deadheading miles. You can tax them based on average number of humans per vehicle mile traveled (they know how many seats are occupied in every vehicle). The data is there.

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@trains.bsky.social

welllll not really they only played ball if it meant they got to continue paying drivers like shit, ie prop 22 and they basically got completely away with illegal parking/loading and inducing a ton of congestion. the fees they pay dont come near the match of externalities caused