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She ought to be careful about blocking the wheelchair ramp, otherwise she's all good
It was incredibly courteous of her to allow it onto the sidewalk before stopping it.
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If she was not touching the thing then why didn’t it try and get out of her way? It should not be on the sidewalk in the first place, and should not have right of way.
I found myself wondering about this. If you stand blocking the entrance to a building, and won’t move when the police tell you to, I guess I can see them turning that into a disorderly conduct charge. Of course we are solely debating whether blocking a robot is a crime, but their rationale iin court is probably going to be more based around obstructing a place of public accommodation or something like that.
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Now where did I put my taser. /s
What a badass.
Who's the narc who called the cops on her?
Probably the device itself or it's pilot
They have pilots? Like, I could get paid for driving an FPV RC car all night instead of not getting paid for that like I do now!? I figured they were autonomous.
I imagine they are self driving and someone monitors several remotely. If one appears to be stalled or throwing an error code it likely pops an alert, you select the device view the cameras to see what's gone wrong and place a suggested input of how to resolve the situation. That's essentially what they did for their self driving cars when they start out, then eventually the alerts become less and less but someone still exists.
I imagine they are self driving
Or AI: Actually Indians
That's what I had assumed, oh well.
I'm sure they have a whole call center in India or something that gets reports when a vehicle isn't able to move towards its delivery, so they check the cameras and then call the local cops if someone is in the way.
The comments section on that article truly was a ride.
Gotta love MAGATs rubbing their two brain cells together to try to come up with a good insult
Thanks for letting me know, I guess… it eroded quite some faith i had in US-kind
I'm impressed you had any left. But indeed, it's even more bleak than I imagined.
You weren't kidding. The amount of confidently incorrect comments in there is astounding.
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