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.
Self-Driving Waymo Cab Smashes Into Delivery Robot
Submitted 1 year ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://futurism.com/the-byte/robotaxi-smashes-delivery-robot
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hmancuso@lemmy.world 1 year ago
the_ocs@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nice try, skynet…
hmancuso@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We could always consider reaching out to Harrison Ford for a classic bot chase.
Valorie12@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Begun, the robot wars have.
fox2263@lemmy.world 1 year 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.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How about if we had sixteen different proprietary such protocols instead?
fox2263@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We’d need a seventeenth unifying protocol
grue@lemmy.world 1 year 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.
Pulptastic@midwest.social 1 year ago
Put common channel com devices on all people too. Solved!
Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 year 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.
lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year 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
x00z@lemmy.world 1 year 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.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Expect reCaptcha to ask you to identify food delivery robots soon.
x00z@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wouldn’t be surprised tbh.
Zacryon@feddit.org 1 year 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”.
Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year 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.
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 year 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.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Inattentional blindness is a bitch.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 year 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
BritishJ@lemmy.world 1 year 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.
x00z@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That is also very true.
It’s not a Tesla so I’m sure they are investigating the cause.
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We can discuss now who had the right of way.
But can we?
Do robots suddenly have rights?
obinice@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You call that a smash? Stop sensationalising, come now.
A car gently tapped a thing during a turn and came to a stop.
dumbass@leminal.space 1 year ago
That was personal, there’s definitely some beef between them.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
This new season of Robot Wars / Battle Bots is starting strong
merde@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
video of it on www.youtube.com/watch?v=hazFkED40KI if you don’t want to go to reddit through the linked page
QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hey, it actually stopped without plowing on very far at all. That’s better than what I expected to happen.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Don’t really want to go to YouTube either, but thank you.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Yeah everyone knows the best crushes are on liveleak
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
PURITY TEST ALERT! YOUTUBE LINK DETECTED!
Jesus y’all are a bunch of lock-stepping little fascists.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Where were you during the robot wars of 2025?
Lemminnewbie2@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I hate seeing this kind of bot on bot crime
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 1 year 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.
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 year 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.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 year 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.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 1 year 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.
essteeyou@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sounds like a good time to use the word “bump”
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Maybe even “boop”.
RCTreeFiddy@lemmy.world 1 year 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.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
The word “slam” has been reserved for headlines of someone giving minor criticism, can’t use that unfortunately.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
They had hot, angry robot sex afterward
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
For revenge or for reconciliation?
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 1 year ago
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 year ago
We’ll win the robot wars by pitting them against each other.
sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
The laws of robotics:
- A robot shall never harm a human, or through inaction allow a human to come to harm. \
- Fuck other robots though. Fuck them right up.
Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ew, not the robocondom!
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 year ago
mumblerfish@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh yeah, that reminds me I wanted to replay that game.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 1 year ago
The shadow wars
MyOpinion@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The future is now!
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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