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Self-Driving Waymo Cab Smashes Into Delivery Robot

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Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨return2ozma@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://futurism.com/the-byte/robotaxi-smashes-delivery-robot

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  • sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The laws of robotics:

    1. A robot shall never harm a human, or through inaction allow a human to come to harm. \
    2. Fuck other robots though. Fuck them right up.
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    • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • mumblerfish@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh yeah, that reminds me I wanted to replay that game.

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    • Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ew, not the robocondom!

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  • AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As it turns out, the impact wasn’t too severe. The Waymo cab, to its credit, hit the brakes immediately and avoided knocking the poor little thing over. And moments later, while the robotaxi is still in a daze, the Serve robot drives away like nothing happened.

    Smash seems to be overselling it.

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    • altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They had hot, angry robot sex afterward

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      • AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Image

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      • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        For revenge or for reconciliation?

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    • RCTreeFiddy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It appears the video may have been sped up in the part just before the impact. I would like to see the unedited clip, I bet it was way less severe than it looked.

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    • essteeyou@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sounds like a good time to use the word “bump”

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      • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Maybe even “boop”.

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    • Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The word “slam” has been reserved for headlines of someone giving minor criticism, can’t use that unfortunately.

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  • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Little robot crossed against the signal, and couldn’t navigate the curb, big robot didn’t yield to the pedestrian walk way. What a shit show. Glad it wasn’t someone in a wheel chair.

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    • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So what we’re saying is, this is it, folks. We’ve finally reached robot parity with exactly how humans would behave in the same situation.

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    • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      and didn’t yield to the pedestrian walk way.

      The Waymo is guilty.

      The scene was clearly visible and it hit the brake much too late at that speed.

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  • fox2263@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There should be an open communication standard that all robots use to communicate with each other.

    And it will only be used for good and nothing nefarious.

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    • lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There should be an open communication standard that all robots use to communicate with each other.

      Yes!

      And it will only be used for good and nothing nefarious.

      Oh no

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    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How about if we had sixteen different proprietary such protocols instead?

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      • fox2263@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        We’d need a seventeenth unifying protocol

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Aside from the obvious I, Robot movie allusion, this idea doesn’t really work in the real world because robots have to be able to detect the presence and anticipate the actions of non-robots anyway. Unless you’re willing to ban all the actual people from the street, which is unreasonable, robot-to-robot communication doesn’t actually help you.

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      • Pulptastic@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Put common channel com devices on all people too. Solved!

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      • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Robots can look different to people, if they know where each other are then they csn prioritise a collision with a robot over a human etc.

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  • merde@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    video of it on www.youtube.com/watch?v=hazFkED40KI if you don’t want to go to reddit through the linked page

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    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Don’t really want to go to YouTube either, but thank you.

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      • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        PURITY TEST ALERT! YOUTUBE LINK DETECTED!

        Jesus y’all are a bunch of lock-stepping little fascists.

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah everyone knows the best crushes are on liveleak

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    • QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hey, it actually stopped without plowing on very far at all. That’s better than what I expected to happen.

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  • obinice@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You call that a smash? Stop sensationalising, come now.

    A car gently tapped a thing during a turn and came to a stop.

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  • Valorie12@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Begun, the robot wars have.

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  • MyOpinion@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The future is now!

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  • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Where were you during the robot wars of 2025?

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  • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We’ll win the robot wars by pitting them against each other.

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  • x00z@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I see nobody talking about this, but aren’t the Waymo(s) trained on data which most likely did not include these robots yet?

    It seems like this is just something that’ll probably happen a lot whenever something new is introduced on the roads.

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    • Zacryon@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t know about the equipment of Waymo cars, but I would be surprised if they didn’t have LIDARs or some other form of distance based environment detection.

      And that should be sufficient to implement basic obstacle detection. You don’t need to use machine learning if you can use sensors telling you that “something is too close”.

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      • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The article title is misleading as usual.

        The car collided after hitting the brakes, seems there wasn’t any real damage. It seems the system is designed to only lessen the impact when it detects the obstacle as non-human. If it would have recognized the robot as human, it would have probably acted differently.

        Better to hit the object and lessen the impact than to fully brake/avoid and risk worse.

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    • BritishJ@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, they should try to avoid any object in the road to be honest. Imagine a new toy comes out that a child is on. Sorry we killed that child l, we didn’t train it on that new toy.

      Its just an unacceptable answer to be honest.

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      • x00z@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That is also very true.

        It’s not a Tesla so I’m sure they are investigating the cause.

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    • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      but aren’t the Waymo(s) trained on data which most likely did not include these robots yet?

      You can say that about nearly 100% of humans as well.

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        So I’m finding it hard to find a release date for humans, but I’m fairly short predated the invention of self-driving cars.

        For example I seem to remember being alive in the 1990s

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      • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Inattentional blindness is a bitch.

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    • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Expect reCaptcha to ask you to identify food delivery robots soon.

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      • x00z@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Wouldn’t be surprised tbh.

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  • Lemminnewbie2@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I hate seeing this kind of bot on bot crime

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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Screenshot_20250103-193240_Firefox

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  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This new season of Robot Wars / Battle Bots is starting strong

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  • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The shadow wars

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  • dumbass@leminal.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That was personal, there’s definitely some beef between them.

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  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We can discuss now who had the right of way.

    But can we?

    Do robots suddenly have rights?

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  • hmancuso@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Every robot should have some kind of electronic blinker to let others know they’re robots. That way, we can avoid a bunch of bumps and crashes.

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    • the_ocs@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nice try, skynet…

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      • hmancuso@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        We could always consider reaching out to Harrison Ford for a classic bot chase.

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