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"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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[-] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 122 points 3 weeks ago

Wow seems dangerous and inefficient can't wait to see them on US streets.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 25 points 3 weeks ago

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).

[-] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] massacre@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

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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[-] possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

taking a ride from RIP Cruise sounds like a fanfuckingtastic way to die

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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.

[-] big_slap@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago

but then who will ice shoot when it plows through them? lol

[-] BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 weeks ago

The nearest person with skin anything darker than 'never had a tan', as is custom (or more recently, anyone not cisgendered, heterosexual, and male)

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[-] skooma_king@piefed.social 66 points 3 weeks ago

Lost it when the guy kicking it made it go

[-] JackFrostNCola@aussie.zone 10 points 3 weeks ago

Get outta here clanker!

[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 50 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] tordenflesk@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks ago

"Fell of the back of a van"'s back baby!

[-] elvith@feddit.org 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

~~Fell of the back of a van~~

Van fell on his back

[-] Njos2SQEZtPVRhH@piefed.social 5 points 3 weeks ago

so there will be camera's with facial recognition. There's no cheating in mass surveillance totalitarianism.

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[-] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 45 points 3 weeks ago

Driving through that orange stuff was actually impressive.

[-] prettybunnys@piefed.social 28 points 3 weeks ago

I kinda wanna watch a bunch of them race through orange stuff

[-] metallic_substance@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago

Self driving truck Splatoon

[-] e8CArkcAuLE@piefed.social 5 points 3 weeks ago

is Donny headed for a visit to ~~va~~China anytime soon?

[-] TomMasz@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

Even if you think these are terrible, you have to admire the tenacity.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago
[-] stringere@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] Matty_r@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 38 points 3 weeks ago

Move fast and break things.

[-] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 23 points 3 weeks ago

It doesnt make that trench on the first try and it just fucken sends it. They like us fr.

[-] mystrawberrymind@piefed.ca 14 points 3 weeks ago

This is hilarious! RIP anything ‘handle with care’🤣

[-] tomiant@piefed.social 12 points 3 weeks ago

How my life is going:

[-] Grabthar@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

That's what happens when you don't pay Johnny cab for the ride. Hell of a day, isn't it?

[-] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 7 points 3 weeks ago

Now, that's cute.

[-] ech@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] ech@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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

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[-] pyre@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 3 points 3 weeks ago

China looked at Tesla fsd and thought how can we make that shitter and more dangerous.

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[-] _lilith@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

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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