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I was expecting a discount. In the onboarding it says "Prices are the same. You won't pay more for autonomous rides."

If that's the case, I would rather give my money to a human driver than just Uber.

I wasn't really expecting a discount, but that quoted statement irked me. The way it's phrased, it's basically trying to subconsciously set the baseline that you should expect to pay more for autonomous rides (because "tech"), despite that, as the top comment states, it's not currently a "glitch free" experience.

Pet peeve side note on language - if I see one more article from a tech company about Austin that starts with some version of "Yeehaw", I'm going to go postal. It has all the authenticity of the "How do you do, fellow kids!" meme, not to mention that Austin is about as "Texas country" as San Francisco is.

> The way it's phrased, it's basically trying to subconsciously set the baseline that you should expect to pay more for autonomous rides (because "tech")

It’s literally already happening in this thread.

When I was in LA last fall, Waymo was more expensive than both Lyft and Uber. I half suspect it's an attempt to placate human drivers (and/or the corporations that hire them) for the time being.

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