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If you can teach a car to drive, you can teach a car to detect when it's being thrashed.


Unless it comes with the ability to eject participants, how would that help?


you automatically charge $500 to the passanger's credit card, and self-drive back to the depot to be cleaned


The cost to clean (and repair damage) and opportunity cost of not earning money in the meantime would be far more than $500, and far more than how much most people could afford to pay.


> Unless it comes with the ability to eject participants, how would that help?

System locks all doors and calls police?


I highly doubt police would care. People trash hotel rooms all the time, and they might escort people out of the hotel, but recouping any costs is a civil matter for the business. And good luck breaking even via that avenue.


And if it turns out the thrashing of said car was an in-cabin fire? You just locked them in.




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