San Francisco's North Beach streets clogged as long line of Cruise robotaxis come to a standstill

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• RedditWanderer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Here’s an idea, instead of individual cars, we could combine them into a few cars pulled 1 big car. And given they pretty much go to the same place, we could put them on some sort of tracks to reduce rubber wear, like steel wheels. We could even make it stop at a couple of useful places along the way… Wait.

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  • dhork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That sounds too complicated, why don’t we just run cables under all the roads and have the cars grab the cables through the road?

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    • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Are you a wizard?

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    • harry315@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Still too complicated. You would need to dig up the street for that. What about flying cables grabbing the cars individually?

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• athos77@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Cruise blamed cellphone carriers for the problem. [...] Cruise government affairs manager Lauren Wilson [said] “As I understand it, [a large music festival] impacted LTE cell connectivity and ability for RA advisors to route cars.”

  Then they should have a backup communications option for when something happens. Cellphone towers can be destroyed in a wildfire, earthquake, tornado or infrastructure attack. Every time there's a major disaster, the cellphone lines get overwhelmed. And if the thing that's going to drive you away from where the disaster is occurring is also affected, then that's a problem that needs to be fixed, preferably before these machines become any more widespread.

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  • Cheesus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Their response isn’t very reassuring that they blamed outside lands. They need to get off the streets during a disaster so emergency vehicles can get by but instead it sounds like they will be stuck clogging up roads.

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  • vin@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They could have made a mesh network with all GM cars…

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• Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A couple of years back I read an interesting article about how cities aren’t ready for autonomous cars, that when city parking is more expensive than running the vehicle, there will be fleets of empty cars driving slowly in laps around inner suburbs.

  And hey, look at that!

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  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    fleets of empty cars driving slowly in laps around inner suburbs.

    Misuse of the road.

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  • xthexder@l.sw0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t think the wasted energy cost would ever be lower than parking costs. They’ll need a depot of some sort for maintenance and charging/fueling anyway that they could return to when there’s less demand. That’s assuming the cars aren’t privately owned, but in that case your car could just drive further away (or even all the way home) to park.

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• NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  fears what could happen when a major fire or other life-threatening emergency breaks out with multiple robotaxis blocking the way.

  Don’t they have laws that all vehicles must make way etc.? Aren’t these Borg vehicles required to follow laws?

  Cruise blamed cellphone carriers for the problem.

  Real world always has some connectivity problems somewhere. These vehicles must be able to deal with it.

  It means simply that these vehicles are not ready to run in the real world. Goto junkyard.

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• Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Another option: fining Cruise and Waymo thousands of dollars for each robotaxi road blockage.

  What? Fining GM and Google will not result in any changes at all. Corporations are immune to fines. Why do we pretend a corporation’s behavior is affected by fines?

  They get fines where the public would get jail. Maybe, since cOrPoRaTiOnS aRe pEoPLe, we can send them to jail just like everyone else.

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• Ambiorickx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They probably just need a drink. Offer them a Molotov Cocktail.

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• FaceDeer@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  On the flipside, things like this and this won't happen with robot taxis.

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  • flyoverstate@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    protesting the deregulation of their industry
    protesting how criminal exploitative companies are risking their profession

    gee yeah, side with the morally bankrupt corporations

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  • LethalSmack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In a way it has. The fleet of robotaxis blocked traffic due to their low cell service and now the company responsible is washing their hands clean by saying it’s not our problem, it’s the lack of cell service!

    So, if at any point, they get less than optimal signal then they’ll put the grid in a deadlock?

    Sounds even worse than people protesting to earn a living and get equal treatment

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  • sc_griffith@awful.systems ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sorry are you trying to describe a positive outcome

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    • FaceDeer@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I'm just pointing out that the "stopped taxis collectively fouling up traffic" is not unique to robotaxis, and that the human-driven taxis can be worse in that regard in some instances (one of the situations I linked went on for weeks, the one this article is about went on for fifteen minutes).

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• tmjaea@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Cyberpunk 2077 vibes

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  • blackluster117@possumpat.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I want more of the cool parts of the future and less of the shit parts. Is that really so much to ask for?

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