but then who will ice shoot when it plows through them? lol
Comment on no eggs were harmed in the making of this video
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Wow seems dangerous and inefficient can’t wait to see them on US streets.
big_slap@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
The nearest person with skin anything darker than ‘never had a tan’, as is custom (or more recently, anyone not cisgendered, heterosexual, and male)
scarabic@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
US streets aren’t always great but what’s up with all these open trenches right in the middle of the roads in this video??
ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
In China you can exit from a 12 lane freeway into a creek bed.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s China
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
The first clip is clearly not somewhere cars should be. The other two… Trenches? Are construction areas clearly. I’m not sure what you mean?
scarabic@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
In the first clip there is a tuktuk in the foreground and a passenger car in the background so I don’t know how you got to “clearly somewhere cars should not be.
In clip 4 there’s some pavement but it falls away into a large hole that has filled with water… call it what you will. “Trench” is one word for it.
OrgunDonor@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Clip 1 is very clearly a plaza and pedestrian area, hence the large curb, the cars In the background are in a carpark.
Clip 4 is clearly construction, and it isn’t water, it is wet concrete.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The US has the NHTSA (at least, for now), which doesn’t stand for shenanigans like this. And the two market leaders in autonomous vehicles (Waymo, Zoox) actually take safety seriously, unlike others (Tesla, RIP Cruise).
Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Well, it’s likely the DOGE cuts haven’t shown their impact just yet.
Personally, I’m sort of hoping for the same karma as when Elaine Chao was secretary of transportation and let Tesla roll out an untested and confusing shifting system, which later helped kill her sister.
massacre@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
pretty sure Waymo is cool with not taking safety seriously over profits though
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
We already accept 3,400 deaths per day from human drivers.
If autonomous vehicles were to cause one death ever, would they still not be worth pursuing?
massacre@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I never said that, nor implied it. I certainly personally think it’s worth pursuit. I was pointing out Waymo was being given a bit of a pass there, and want to remind folks that profit incidentive that ignores or downplays human risk is not at all appealing and shouldn’t be given a free pass.
If Waymo can drive and “only” kills 1% of the equivalent per human miles driven, it’s certainly better right? But given that it’s a machine with a company that has a profit motive behind it, it’s goals need to be lofty. Why not set the bar at zero human deaths as a goal post and work from there? As soon as you say a single death is acceptable, it changes how everyone approaches it and turns into “well, is a second death acceptable?” and that’s going to quickly devolve into “what is an acceptable level of death for our profit margin.” To be clear, I’m arguing the answer should always be NONE. The alternative is a slippery slope, so I don’t want to give anyone a pass.
possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
taking a ride from RIP Cruise sounds like a fanfuckingtastic way to die
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They didn’t kill the woman, just ran her over and dragged her twenty feet, a mercifully short distance given that the vehicle never detected her and was already about to pull over.