“In China, driverless delivery vans have become a total meme, they plow through crumbling roads, fresh concrete, motorcycles, anything. Nothing stops them.”
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How my life is going:
These things look pretty top heavy, are they easy to tip over or would it be easier to fuck with the wheels to disable them?
Automated cargo delivery is going to bring a new era of piracy. When you can easily trick the vehicle and there are no people in it, it becomes much more tempting to just knock it over and steal what’s inside.
“Fell of the back of a van”'s back baby!
Fell of the back of a vanVan fell on his back
Lost it when the guy kicking it made it go
Wow seems dangerous and inefficient can’t wait to see them on US streets.
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).
pretty sure Waymo is cool with not taking safety seriously, though. Profits, amirite?
EDIT: JAYSUS this must be my most edited comment to get right.
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?
Well, it’s likely the DOGE cuts haven’t shown their impact just yet.
Of roughly 30 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration workers dismissed in February as part of Musk’s campaign to shrink the federal workforce, many were in the “office of vehicle automation safety,” — Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE
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.
but then who will ice shoot when it plows through them? lol
The nearest person with skin anything darker than ‘never had a tan’, as is custom (or more recently, anyone not cisgendered, heterosexual, and male)
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??
In China you can exit from a 12 lane freeway into a creek bed.
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?
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.
It’s China
Move fast and break things.
The “vehicle stuck under a big truck” thing happens with human drivers, too. If it’s in the driver’s blind spot, it’s gonna be there a while.
Yeah, you’d hear that scraping. I imagine sound is not used for the vehicle to determine if it should stop or not.
Screaming “STOOOOOOOP” while you’re hanging under a truck will make most drivers stop. Not so much for AI, though
A person hitting me will (usually) stop the car and help me. From what I’m seeing here, of these AI trucks hit you, you’re just fucked
Trucks are loud, and if they don’t hear scraping, they’re not going to hear shouting.
To be clear, I’m not trying to defend bad autonomous vehicles here - just pointing out that the dangers exist with any large vehicle. This is something that happens with trucks, so people should be aware.
*Since you don’t seem to believe it’s possible, here’s a news report of an incident from 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q22sQndSjEA
Driving through that orange stuff was actually impressive.
I kinda wanna watch a bunch of them race through orange stuff
Self driving truck Splatoon
is Donny headed for a visit to
vaChina anytime soon?
Probably grain or something drying out, though I thought that was more on the side of the road rather than right in the middle of it.
Even if you think these are terrible, you have to admire the tenacity.
leaves?
That’s what happens when you don’t pay Johnny cab for the ride. Hell of a day, isn’t it?
/nasal voice/ Me again
