Comment on DoorDashers are getting paid to close Waymo's self-driving car doors
timestatic@feddit.org 5 days agoJust make the motor not slam the door but close it slowly with not enough force to harm someone and put like two sensors + 1 backup in there
Lumidaub@feddit.org 5 days ago
Call me a cynical luddite but somehow I don’t trust today’s autonomous car technology to be reliable and fool-proof enough for that mechanism not to fail catastrophically and randomly because it’s raining or someone on the other side of the street made a sudden movement or Mercury is in retrograde or the company’s stock market just dropped 592 points because investors are furious after realising they wasted money on a backup or it’s Tuesday.
timestatic@feddit.org 5 days ago
You know we already have autonomous doors for houses. I feel like theres a lot more trust involved having a 2 ton vehicle move significant speeds on the road than having it close a door
Lumidaub@feddit.org 5 days ago
I do not know that. I’d also assume the technology to close a door on a car to work very differently from that on a house because a door on a house that may not be closed properly is far less dangerous than one on a car. Also, yes, I don’t trust that 2 ton vehicle either if it claims to be autonomous.