Wow seems dangerous and inefficient can't wait to see them on US streets.
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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).
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.
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?
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taking a ride from RIP Cruise sounds like a fanfuckingtastic way to die
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.
What really did them in was all the lying they did about it.
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.
It's China
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?
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Lost it when the guy kicking it made it go
Get outta here clanker!
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 van~~
Van fell on his back
In China they have your face details and your phone location. Even if they don't have that data, there are hidden cameras everywhere following you home.
so there will be camera's with facial recognition. There's no cheating in mass surveillance totalitarianism.
Wear a mask?
Isn't facial recognizition still possible when the face is partly masked? Also, what if they have camera's right about everywhere, where do you put on the mask without being identified? Or what if they track your phones location? Don't know how far chinese mass surveillance currently goes, but these seem like real possibilities in the near-future. I am very afraid that modern technology will make resistance to totalitarianism impossible.
I’m certain it’s possible to obscure your face beyond the ability of any machine to recognize it. At that point your enemy is gait analysis, but there are countermeasures for that as well. As for utterly pervasive surveillance that is so redundant and automated that the government can know anything about anyone, anywhere, retroactively…. I don’t know if we are there yet. I’m not going to spend too much energy worrying about the prospects of Chinese pirates.
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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 ~~va~~China anytime soon?
Even if you think these are terrible, you have to admire the tenacity.
leaves?
I was in my 40s when I realized that some people never experience fallen leaves in autumn. Snow, sure, I knew snow couldn't happen everywhere, but it never occurred to me that the same places that never have snow likely also never see the leaves fall from their trees.
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.
Move fast and break things.
It doesnt make that trench on the first try and it just fucken sends it. They like us fr.
This is hilarious! RIP anything ‘handle with care’🤣
How my life is going:
That's what happens when you don't pay Johnny cab for the ride. Hell of a day, isn't it?
Now, that's cute.
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
China looked at Tesla fsd and thought how can we make that shitter and more dangerous.
/nasal voice/ Me again
one of the funniest things I've seen on the road was a big ass truck that had a sticker that said "attention! eggs on board". i cry lauged so hard. like dude you be careful with it, why are you giving me responsibility
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?
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