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Self-Driving Waymo Cab Smashes Into Delivery Robot (futurism.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

While I would hope the waymo could do a better job not hitting animals, I do find it a bit obnoxious that these knee-height delivery carts are running around. That's a nuisance and a mild danger to pedestrians and cyclists. The article also only mention waymo didn't identify this bot as a human, so it wasn't as cautious a sit could be. Can it identify an animal as an additional class?

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

Waymo said they detected it as an inanimate object, as opposed to an animate object like an animal. It's only the article author that made a reference to humans.