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A robot can be programmed to do that. As soon as they're economically incentivized to do so someone will write that code.

When the driver and the platform are different entities (like Uber) you end up with these weird incentives. How would that happen in the Waymo case?

Some analyst will figure out the robots have less billable time on task and they’ll find some way to avoid the problem.

There’s a million ways to do it. Shadow ban locations, mistakenly pull up to the wrong location, etc.