"DoorDash on Thursday launched Tasks, a new product that formalises what had been emerging piecemeal across the platform for the past year. It operates on two levels. The first is a set of new task types inside the existing Dasher app: taking photos of restaurant dishes to populate a menu, photographing a hotel entrance so future drivers can find the drop-off point, or scanning supermarket shelves for inventory checks."
"The second is a standalone Tasks app, designed for activities with no delivery component at all, filming household chores, recording unscripted conversations in another language, or, in a partnership that drew attention back in February, closing open doors on Waymo's self-driving cars in Atlanta."
"When a Waymo passenger leaves a vehicle door ajar, a safety trigger that prevents the car from moving, nearby Dashers receive a notification and can earn around $11 to drive over and close it. It is a small transaction with an outsized symbolic weight: gig workers, often cited as the group most exposed to displacement by automation, being paid by an autonomous vehicle company to solve a problem."
DoorDash introduced Tasks, a new product formalizing data collection opportunities across its platform of eight million couriers. The service operates on two levels: within the existing Dasher app for delivery-adjacent tasks like photographing restaurant dishes and hotel entrances, and as a standalone app for unrelated activities including filming household chores and recording conversations. A notable partnership with Waymo pays Dashers approximately $11 to close autonomous vehicle doors when passengers leave them ajar. This system leverages DoorDash's nationwide distribution network to efficiently collect specific, reproducible footage needed by AI and robotics companies for training models that understand physical tasks.
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