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A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco::A Waymo car was destroyed in San Francisco as a crowd began vandalizing it and ultimately set the car on fire. Nobody was in the vehicle at the time.

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[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 96 points 10 months ago

Watched one of these block traffic once by putting on its blinker to turn down a street with a police barricade up. The street had been closed and the police weren’t going to lift the barricade. Nonetheless, the car put its blinker on and sat there blocking traffic indefinitely.

[-] masterspace@lemmy.ca 18 points 10 months ago

I saw a human driver get into a traffic accident because he was mad that the guy ahead of him gave someone space to turn out of a parking lot, they ended up arguing and their cars just sat there further blocking traffic for half an hour until the cops came.

Why are you acting like robot drivers are the only fallible ones?

[-] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

wait till you hear about trains, subways, buses, and bicycles

[-] masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

Oh please do go ahead and tell me how my 93 year old grandmother is going to bicycle home.

[-] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

Oh shit I only mentioned bicycles like some idiot shilling for driverless cars, my b

[-] masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

So in your world, planes, trains, and buses pick you up and drop you off at your doorstop? How cute.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 17 points 10 months ago

Nah. Unless you live literally at the station, which happens but is rare, doorsteps are the domain of collect taxis.

Which btw are the most economical option in rural areas as you don't have to drive empty buses around all the time. In cities they should be limited to people actually needing them, also open bicycle paths for microcars for people with mobility issues, not everyone wants or needs a powered wheelchair.

[-] masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

This is what I mean, you'll never get rid of enclosed motorized vehicles for a variety of reasons, and if we're going to have them around, it would be better if they were self driving and killed fewer people than human drivers.

[-] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

planes don't pick you up from your doorstep? since when? but they can fly?

[-] cloudless@feddit.uk 2 points 10 months ago

That sounds like a very difficult scenario for AI to resolve. This requires nearly AGI to understand the situation.

[-] shea 35 points 10 months ago

if big orange barrier then reroute

[-] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 months ago

Big brain programming

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