The future of transportation, according to Big Tech elites, is apparently paying minimum-wage workers to babysit broken robots. Google's Waymo has quietly started hiring DoorDash gig workers and other freelancers for one simple task: following around their supposedly "revolutionary" self-driving cars to close doors left open by passengers.
Yes, you read that correctly. These multi-million dollar autonomous vehicles - the same technology that Silicon Valley promised would replace human drivers - can't even figure out how to close their own doors when customers forget to do it.
The robotaxis become completely immobilized when a door is left ajar, forcing the company to deploy an army of human workers to manually shut them. It's a perfect metaphor for everything wrong with the tech industry's arrogant promises about artificial intelligence replacing American workers.
Another Big Tech Promise Falls Flat
This embarrassing revelation exposes the gap between Silicon Valley's grandiose claims and reality. For years, Google and other tech giants have pushed the narrative that AI and automation would seamlessly replace human jobs across entire industries. Meanwhile, they can't even build a car that knows when its door is open.
The irony is rich: a technology designed to eliminate driving jobs is now creating new jobs for people to follow cars around and perform basic tasks that any human driver would handle automatically. It's almost like human intelligence and common sense aren't so easy to replicate after all.
While Waymo burns through investor cash paying people to close car doors, American families are struggling with inflation and job security. These are the same tech companies that lecture us about progress and efficiency while wasting resources on half-baked solutions to problems that don't exist.
This latest Waymo fiasco should serve as a wake-up call about the limitations of AI hype. Maybe instead of trying to replace American workers with faulty robots, these companies should focus on building technology that actually works. What's next - hiring people to remind the cars which direction to drive?