Comment on Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 days agoThen again, the human passengers didn’t see it either.
The human passengers weren’t responsible for driving the vehicle, their lack of awareness is a feature of getting a taxi ride?
MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I meant that the Waymo didn’t see it, neither did the passengers, so the cat could’ve been difficult to detect.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
Not an excuse.
BassTurd@lemmy.world 4 days ago
A small animal not being visible to a human or robotic driver is absolutely a viable excuse. It’s sad that the cat died, but it’s first an foremost the fault of the owners for letting their cat out.
I don’t like the tech bro world and I’m not a fan of driverless vehicles, but this didn’t happen because it was driverless and the outcome would be the same if their were a person behind the wheel.
You can definitely argue against cars being on the road in general, but I was on a bike ride with a buddy the other day, and he hit a squirrel that ran between us and then under his bike. Sometimes bad things happen especially when dealing with animals, and blaming a computer blindly is dumb AF.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 4 days ago
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
I mean ok we can keep cats indoor, what about making techbros indoor only too? They kill a lot of innocent people with the tools they make.
CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
LOL, that’s not really how mice and small birds work.
reddifuge@lemmy.world 3 days ago
How about you keep your mice and birds inside?
Melonpoly@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Hard to keep cars indoors