These things have been around for a few years on the college campus in my hometown, it's not that new and they do work fairly well. Might be that it was a testing ground though
My niece has them on her college campus.
College kids + alcohol + robots.... It's about what you would expect.
They rarely make it to their destinations on time.
I'd figured the article would have some tips but I was disappointed.
Choose your spot well, preferably near an alley without any cameras directly viewing it. Wear a no -branded hoodie, sunglasses, and a mask, then obstruct its forward path, and start spray painting the cameras. Wear gloves to avoid leaving fingerprints. If all else fails, a stun gun might be very helpful in disabling stubborn electronics.
This is actually how rights for robots will be a thing. So the proletariat knows to stay in line and never harm or try to subvert the robots made by the elite class to extract wealth
the workers work for a company
Exploiting the proletariat
the robots do it instead
Extracting wealth
I really loath thieves, but that's fucking hilarious.
I support it.
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