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Waymo's Service Is A Detriment To The Economy-Society

Waymo's Service Is A Detriment To The Economy-Society

Waymo's self-driving taxi service, or ride share service, contributes very little to the economy and food chain. Whereas human drivers of taxi and ride share services circulate their hard earned money and currency, and by doing so it stimulates the food chain. What Waymo's is doing is stunting the food chain, competing with the ride share industry, gaining momentum and establishing their footprint in 5 U.S cities and will soon be testing in Tokyo, and by doing so it will eventually displace human jobs.

Why is this good? 

Can't anybody see this? 

Why aren't there more voices, editorials, and opinions bemoaning Waymo?

One doesn't have to be a Nostradamus to see that Waymo will be a detriment to mankind, especially if the company expands exponentially. 

Your conventional driver/worker may spend his or her hard earned money at restaurants, shopping malls, trips, doctor visits etc. He or she may also purchase a house, and start a family. In other words this blue collar worker will branch out, take root, and invest in our country. And along the way a lot of others are being fed. This is a good blueprint for humankind.

On the other hand Waymo will feed it's self righteous self and investors, where their/this money will pollinate their stock and not humankind. That's a shame. And when Elon Musk gets into the race it will only get worse. This is a disarrangement of the food chain. A bad shake up.Can't anyone see the repercussions that Waymo will cause? Sadly, this looks like to be our future baby boom.

Of the two choices, which is morally right ... you would think?

From the website:

Waymo had previously tested out its vehicles in Miami as recently as last year. Miami would become the fifth U.S. city with widely available Waymo service, after San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix and Austin, where the company says it's now providing some 150,000 weekly driverless trips.

My take:

Granted that the Waymo's service has a better safety record, sleekier looking vehicles and offers the rider privacy ... but my question remains at what cost to society?

The frightening situation about Waymo is that the company is currently in it's infancy stage. Today there's x, tomorrow xx ... 5 years from now xxxxx and the company will continue multiplying nationally and globally, filling it's pockets and deteriorating the fabric of the human drivers across the globe that make up the taxi/ride share industry. Why would anyone let this snowball? Oh, I would guess, maybe a rider's support of a Waymo that doesn't care about Waymo's lack of contribution to society and the human food chain.

Finally, I applaud people that can see the big picture. And choose not to ride a Waymo service. Boycott for the betterment of society, I say. For once Waymo gains a stranglehold of the ride-share/taxi industry it will lead to other A-I crossroads into other industries that will displace even more workers. And then what? And then what?

connie pachecho

12/26/24
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Dietrich Avatar
July 2, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Connie. This is very intelligent thinking. Most people are not thinking ahead. This is frightening to me. It will lead to poverty and depression, leading to alcoholism and other things that destroy marriages and self worth and all society. Very sad. Very scary
Dietrich Avatar
July 3, 2026 at 12:14 AM
I wish everyone would do as you do and not support Waymo. I don't even know how to Uber. I don't think Waymo has hit Utah yet. Sure hope not. I don't know if we can necessarily know if companies we support are displacing employees with AI. That's why it is so insidious.
Pachecho Avatar
July 2, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Andrea, at this point, the best I can do is not support companies that use AI to displace humans, including Waymo. I agree the future looks bleak.
Pachecho Avatar
January 30, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Can't the think tank in Washington see that society is heading in the wrong direction ... with rideshare and truck drivers on the cutting block who's next? With automated this and automated that many jobs will be lost. More and more people will be out of work. And playing right before my eyes I can see that our country will crumble. It's inevitable. When industries and large groups of people are out of work, and homeless and hungry, whats going to happen? I say rebellions and riots.
Dietrich Avatar
July 2, 2026 at 9:22 PM
I don't know if you believe as I do, but the world's globalists own all the politicians. Their goal is to divide people and bring chaos to nations. Once they bring us to the brink of disaster, they will enslave us. People will be so afraid that they will accept digital currency and IDs and like one New World Order leader stated " you will own nothing and you will be happy". They want to sicken us with pesticides and chemicals in our foods. They want us weak. They have come right out and said they want major depopulation. I have looked into all these things extensively and come to the conclusion this has been going on for decades. They are just speeding up the process now
Pachecho Avatar
January 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Those/these storm clouds keep creeping in. Today I read that UBER and LYFT are joining the race, self self-driving trucks are in the conversation, and A-I generators are also taking root, which is another way of saying that this technology can potentially do the jobs that humans can do (in some cases). Can't anyone see that this change in weather is not for the better?
Dietrich Avatar
July 2, 2026 at 9:30 PM
One last thing. Did you know Bill Gates is pure evil. Even the lying Google will tell the truth on this fact: he is the largest landowner now of American farmland 275, 000 acres something like that. Look it up and see. He has killed Third world country's kids with some of his experimental vaccinations. He has his hands in so many things. He is not even a doctor or scientist. Yet he walks the world scott free and nothing happens to him. A big visitor to Epstein Island. Well you get the picture. Why does he want farmland? Can't people see? He will own the very food we eat and people will do anything for food. Oh well. And so it goes
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