Self-Driving Taxis Could Have a Vomit Problem
- Managing self-driving rideshare fleets could be costly, yucky
- ‘It is a really big issue and no one has figured it out’
Race To Build Self-Driving Cars Accelerates
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It didn’t take long for Pritam Singh to learn a key lesson about working for Lyft. People are disgusting. They have a nasty habit of throwing up in moving vehicles.
Rideshare drivers are acutely aware that customers tend to do that, along with slightly less annoying things like wiping hamburger-greasy fingers on armrests and turning floor mats into swamps of slush. Singh, who ferries passengers for Lyft Inc. in Manhattan several evenings a week, drops about $200 a month cleaning -- really, sometimes it feels like sanitizing -- his Toyota Camry.