Mobile CCTV patrol system getting bigger
With the suite of sensors onboard this is the ideal mobile surviellance platform.
Cameras, Lidar creating a 3D map, EM sensors, likely microphones. All circulating all day long under the guise of providing a service that no one needs or asked for while claiming a safety record that is great until it is not.
Google paved the way with this idea when they created streetview maps 15+ years ago…which just so happened to be mapping wifi APs which is totally a necessary part of providing streetviews.
I’ve never been in one of those corporate controlled rolling cages, and hope to never be.
Waymo is quietly turning robotaxis from a tech demo into infrastructure. 500,000 paid rides a week, roughly 4,000 cars and 15 US cities is no longer a cute experiment. The interesting part: 80% of the fleet is still concentrated in California and Texas. Scale first where density works, then expand. Tesla has a real race on its hands.
Not really a race. Waymo uses LIDAR, RADAR, and cameras. Last I checked Tesla only uses cameras.
teslas has the ability to lock onto children and increase the speed.
Underrated feature. Some might also say underutilized
They had to roll that back after the cars kept targeting their petulant child of a CEO
probably identifies non- white afrikaaners.
Which is probably mostly fine in sunny weather. But fuck if FSD hasn’t scared the fuck out of me when you get weather that obstructs cameras.
Lol Tesla isnt even in the race, Waymo are kicking their ass.
Last mile work is great but fuck big tech, AI and surveillance
Yeah on the one hand, eliminating human drivers is great. On the other, Google.
I’m wondering when we’ll see statistics on if these things are actually safer than human drivers. Anecdotally they’ve already almost hit me a couple times, when I was on foot and driving my own car. But I’m also a cynic, I’m not convinced these things will ever be bettet than human drivers.
Well, according to them we already have them: https://waymo.com/safety/impact/
There are some limited third-party studies also supporting this but to be fair I think there’s still more needed for independent verification. Of course, it also matters what exactly we consider safer, it is entirely possible that they could be the cause of more minor damage while also preventing deaths that would occur with humans at the controls.
