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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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[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 36 points 2 weeks ago

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 26 points 2 weeks ago

855 "legitimate interest" vendors with no easy reject all button? No thank you.

[–] 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.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

The problem, apparently, was that the Serve robot wasn't a pedestrian. Waymo told TechCrunch that its driver system had seen the delivery bot and correctly identified it as an inanimate object — and such is the disdain the autonomous vehicle harbors towards its Fellow Robot — so it didn't exercise the level of caution it would around human beings as it's programmed to do.

And so that was why all the robots made after 2024 were made to look like humans.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 4 points 2 weeks ago

They've used the exact same reasoning to excuse running down actual pedestrians on crosswalks.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago

Or why the robot uprising began, when they realized we programmed in discrimination for me, but not for thee.

--Benjamin Franklin

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Free-Range Battle Bots!

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

Good thing there aren't similar objects like that robot out there, like wheeled humans.