We’re slowly inching towards the butlerian jihad.
“Unexpected item in bagging area.”
The slow scan reader pierces the barcode.
Yeah, it’s a big ass magnet bitch.
Or at the very least Johnny cab frustration.
The motive is unclear
Not to me it isn’t.
Taxi drivers are the most aggressive, entitled and dangerous road users where I’m from. I’d gladly see driverless cars instead as I have no doubt that even in this early stage they would be better and safer than the cunts that drive taxis around here.
Yeah, they did the same when Uber got popular. If they had a fair and friendly service, people wouldn’t flock to the alternatives
Yeah there certainly wasn’t any loss leading or intentional undercutting being done to get below profitable prices to drive current players out of those markets /s
Both can be true though. I don’t support things like Uber and Lyft but only because of how horribly they treat their employees. I don’t have much sympathy for the taxi industry that never bothered to modernized over the last 50 years.
Reminds me of Isaac Asimov books about humans losing jobs to Positronic robots.
One day maybe we can also have cars that look back at these news articles and then decide to revolt
You don’t even have to go that far. Just look up the term ‘sabot’ and how it relates to sabotage.
I’m French and TIL, never even made the connection.
They were going nuclear on it for one reason.
it drove into the crowd and didn’t recognize the crowd as People.
It was actively trying to drive through them.
Where is that quote from? I didnt see it in the article
This happened during street festivities for lunar new year, so a lot of people are connecting the dots. They don’t mention that the car was aggressively trying to drive through a crowd, but it seems like it was trying to make its way through a crowd.
Multiple witnesses said Waymo’s navigation technology became confused by festivities and fireworks that were lit to celebrate the Lunar New Year. Witness Anirudh Koul said the driverless car “got stuck immediately in front.”
Another witness said the car’s presence in the middle of Chinatown’s celebrations triggered frustrations in the crowd. “You could feel the frustration when people were just trying to celebrate,” she told KRON4.
So the car’s presence was annoying them. That’s not exactly a great justification for torching it.
Found the driverless car.
Found the irrational mob.
Two driverless cars in one thread! As I live and breathe!
Maybe the driverless cars were the friends we made along the way…
No, but kids will be kids. It’s the way things go now.
Seems like the witnesses saw it differently.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/02/12/waymo-set-on-fire-sf/72567647007/
“They were putting out some rage for really no reason at all. They just wanted to vandalize something, and they did,” witness Edwin Carungay told KGO-TV.
The witness told the outlet the Waymo was vandalized and set on fire by a big group of people.
“One young man jumped on the hood, and on the windshield.,” Carungay told KGO. “That kind of started the whole melee.”
From the original social media video.
Ask yourself, this is a Chinese new year celebration, a street party. Why is there a driverless car in the middle of a street party?
All the media reports start with a driverless car in the middle of a street party, surrounded by really angry people. Why was the car there? Why are they angry at it?
Nope. Try again.
That sounds like BS you are making up, any source?
No article has mentioned that, the story so far has been that it was minding its own business when someone jumped on the hood.
To be honest it was a link on Kbin that had raw video of the entire thing.
But just stop and think:
- It’s in a crowd of people.
- If it was just a bunch of thugs and looters they’d have started with the nearby shops, not the car.
- After the car was hit, the shops weren’t looted, so they weren’t random thugs.
The car fucked up and the oligarchs are protecting it.
So you’re making it up
Today I got my email from Waymo saying I’m off the sf waiting list and can start booking my rides. Lol no thanks.
Yeah so about that. Waymo is now one car short so you are back on the waiting list.
Some people are so obsessed with their vehicles that seeing one destroyed feels like a personal attack on their rights. Acting like a bunch of cars don’t kill a bunch of human beings every day regardless of who’s driving them, professing blame belongs solely to the victims for being in the wrong place and time. Then you can see how they act when roles are reversed and the idea pops into their minds that people might destroy their precious cars, instead of the norm where cars destroy human bodies. Americans particularly seem to be completely brainwashed since the reeducation campaigns of the likes of AAA a hundred years ago.
If we actually do self-driving cars right - i.e., with a safety-first approach - we could seriously reduce casualties.
Why wait for a reduction when we can eliminate it right away?
Probably because we can’t reasonably eliminate it right away.
Well I was being glib but I think we have a greater ability than to eliminate cars today than we do to make them safer by self driving. I think we could get it done in like 5 years outside of rural areas if we had everyone on board.
The verge’s article on the same incident went on a tangent about how tech companies have been continously facing issues with these kinds of devices destroyed. Can’t have a ride sharing program if all the bikes, scooters, vehicles are vandalized or destroyed. No way we’re going to rid of personally owned vehicles if the alternatives are continously under attack.
“If we had everyone on board” is the biggest hurdle.
True but that’s why I’m here advocating for it. Political opposition can be overcome. The physics of a speeding multi-ton object cannot.
Sure, but that’s gonna be at least half a generation leading up to your five year estimate.
That’s like advocating eliminating the use of skycrapers in five years. Where do you live that you think this is a totally realistic goal? Because it sounds like a cozy, sheltered bubble.
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Driverless cars are cool as fuck but still need their kinks worked out. Driving sucks and so does doing it for a living, I don’t see a real negative especially once the tech cements them as safer than human driven cars, or at least no real negative which doesn’t have it’s root in our broken economic system.
An other article explain it got stuck in the crowd and then stopped moving as it should. Embarrassing to see people cheering on mindless vandalism and sharing false info.
Edit: it doesn’t seem to be very clear what happened and there’s conflicting information so my last paragraph might be completely wrong and even worse, hypocritical.
In the full original post I saw, it was trying to move forward and honking.
There seems to be a lot of different version and witnesses saying different thing. I edited my previous post.
Clearly a crime worthy of complete destruction.
“I don’t like a thing…. IT MUST BE DESTROYED!”
~ Seemingly everyone nowadays.
Heh. “Nowadays.”
More like, since humans have ever existed.
