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Waymo pays DoorDashers to close doors on self-driving cars
(www.404media.co)
I mean, it’s right there on the name
is there arbitrage ?
- order waymo,
- open door,
- cancel ride (pay cancel fee $4.99 ???),
- pick up doordash order,
- earn $6.25 ???
- profit $1.25
repeat
Seems pretty reasonable. I'm sure Waymo would much rather have a way to close them remotely, but that means a lot of moving parts to maintain and break if they fix. Since most people probably do close the door behind them, the marginal cost of paying a Door Dash fee for the occasional open door probably works out cheaper than retrofitting and maintaining door controllers on the entire fleet.
And they can add a "remote door close" fee on riders that leave it open! (I have no idea if they do that, yet).
the man working for the machine and not the opposite
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2026
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