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The connection to the car has made a long run since the days of waving a taxi driver in the hope that he would choose to withdraw to your limit.
Taxi cars these days are a second option to ride services such as Uber, which changed the industry in 2011 by providing a model from the driver and the contestant to benefit from it.
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Lyft followed her example in 2012, became the largest Uber competitor and seized part of the booming market for itself.
Now, with self -driving technology, we have another option: Ridesharing with no one at all. I did this for the first time on a trip to Los Angeles in 2024, where Tesla led me at a fun to her destination without a person in the driver’s seat. Fortunately, I felt a stomach hole in the cold as I saw the steering wheel turned on its own. The future may be, but the future is somewhat terrifying.
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One of the companies known for self -driving cars is Google Waymo ((Googl)) Which provides automatic ride in a few selected cities including Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Austin. If you can deal with the trip without fear of technology (allow me to know if you discover that, where I can use some tips), it seems a useful way to move from point A to point B.
That is, until you learn what Waymo is preparing to make the data you take from these trips.
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The large Waymo plan for all this contestant data
It is not news that Waymo records the data from riding and has cameras inside its cars. After all, this is a very new technique. The company carefully monitors horseback to know how to improve its products while ensuring customers get an ideal experience.
However, researcher Jane Manchon Wong moved to X to share some of the interesting information that I noticed when she encountered a non -Egypt version of Waymo’s privacy policy, as mentioned originally by Techcrunch.
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The statement related to the Waymo private page is not unusual, saying: “Waymo may share data to improve their functions and customize products, services, ads and offers for your interests. You can cancel the subscription to share your information with third parties, unless it is necessary to do the service.”
In its post, Wong shows a screen, saying: “Waymo is working on the Tribal AI training using” internal camera data related to the ID Rider “, and provides cancellation of subscriptions for this and sharing data under CCPA. Waymo stipulates explicitly on this non -racist page [that] Your data for personal ads may share. “
An idea before panic
This is something you can cancel to subscribe to the Waymo One application, so there are two main things that must be taken into account here before you start shaking your grip in the heavens: disrupting the option, and also looked at this language is a draft. However, all this may seem very familiar, as it seems that everything – one of the computers we use on our phones – is quietly used our data in a way that you feel annoyed when you are not aware of it.
The unfortunate truth is that any technique you use to make your life easier to get something in return. So think about the intelligence of the services you use, and remember that the subscription disposal button is your friend-as long as you remember that it exists.
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