Comment on A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco
barsoap@lemm.ee 7 months agoYou can do automated taxis, deliveries and moving services, not so much.
Comment on A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco
barsoap@lemm.ee 7 months agoYou can do automated taxis, deliveries and moving services, not so much.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
You can still automate the driving part of moving and delivery services, which is the dangerous part.
barsoap@lemm.ee 7 months ago
No. Not securing loads is the dangerous part. You need a human in there anyway and with the current sorry state of driving automation best you can do is have them browse the delivery list while the car is handling a traffic jam.
There’s a reason you don’t see the likes of UPS or DHL get into automated cars, but venture capital moonshot tech companies promising nonsense on the one hand, as well as traditional car manufacturers with way more reasonable claims. IIRC Audi is actually leading the pack.
And it’s not like UPS or DHL know nothing about vehicles, they’re driving custom orders. DHL even was a manufacturer for some time.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Jesus christ, you’re trying to argue that driving isn’t dangerous? Ok bud, glad to see you’re approaching this discussion in good faith /s
Yeah, cause they literally started from DARPA’s moonshot program and take massive amounts of cutting edge machine learning to execute, not DHL / UPS’ strong suit.
barsoap@lemm.ee 7 months ago
What part of “DHL manufactured cars themselves” did you not understand. They know exactly what they need from their vehicles and self-driving wasn’t on the list. Electric was on the list, specific range requirements were on the list, second front seat wasn’t, instead you have comfortable loading heights and well thought through access to the load. That’s the stuff that actually matters for a delivery van. Automated driving would only get into the way of the fancy manoeuvring the vans do.