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Vomit AT BEST
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there are cameras inside, and they can see who made a mess inside the car
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That doesn’t do anything except let the taxi go out of service until someone cleans it - assuming that it would identify vomit without waiting for customers to complain after they sit in it.
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this is a trivial problem, same way rental car companies solved it:

  1. operator or computer vision detects dirt in salon
  2. route the autonomous vehicle to contracted carwash
  3. return car back to service
  4. charge customer for the cleanup
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Waymo has contracted with car rental companies to provide cleaning and inspection services.
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