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there are cameras inside, and they can see who made a mess inside the car

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.

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

Waymo has contracted with car rental companies to provide cleaning and inspection services.

It does one better, it holds the passenger who created the mess accountable for the cost and then drops them off the service. You get some bad actors, but you can quickly weed them out.

Doesn't change the service outage piece, but it will get better.

That being said, your key point - people can do what they want in this thing and no one can really stop them, does stand.

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