Fix poverty and you fix a huge amount of other things.
Robbing Delivery Robots Is Now a Thing
Submitted 1 year ago by foobar@lemmy.villa-straylight.social to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.autoweek.com/news/a44839987/delivery-robots-being-robbed/
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Zoldyck@discuss.online 1 year ago
chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Ok sure, but have we considered arming the robots with assault rifles instead?
Meruten@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
The article mentioned tear gas canisters be equipped instead. I can’t wait for a delivery robot to be near my property, someone tries to mess with it and gets gassed, then I get to enjoy tear gas as well from my front porch.
thehatfox@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Aceticon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Surely area of effect weaponry would be better.
The higher collateral impact just serves as an extra lesson to any wannabe thieves.
urfavlaura@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’d go with thermonuclear warheads
Aux@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How’s that related? A criminal is a criminal, their wealth is irrelevant.
BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Because fixing poverty lowers criminality.
aceshigh@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If we’re all not living in survival mode, why would people work? /s
metallic_substance@lemmy.world 1 year ago
For me, this falls neatly into the “who fucking cares?” category. These things are deployed in very few cities overall and if the technology is ready for wide-release, you better have a more effective defense against theft than you already do of they are already being stolen from
CaptainAniki@lemmy.flight-crew.org 1 year ago
Same. It’s on companies to make the shit head decision to save money by not paying people. Not my problem, not my concern, and if anything, we should all be vandalizing anti-human robots as much as possible.
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s not like these are high paying, highly desired jobs being replaced by robots. These are shit jobs that are a waste of time and talent to have done by humans.
Redditiscancer789@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What a pathetic bunch of people trying to maintain the slave status quo in these comments. WHY are you fighting to maintain a world where people have to work low tier bull shit jobs to survive? The answer, you morons, is to let the robots be and improve society to the point technology said it would. We re the most productive we’ve ever been in our entire history yet work more than any other time in history. We need work reform, not a robot genocide.
Sarsoar@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
In an ideal world these robots would shift to there not being a need for “unskilled labor” and we would all have more leisure time. In the late stage capitalistic hellhole we are forced to live in, huge organization replace minimum wage jobs with robots and hoard profits and push people further unto poverty, while still overworking and underpaying the few people they do still employ.
If we had a ubi, then robots and self checkouts taking minimum wage jobs wouldn’t be an issue because the person who’s job was taken isn’t just displaced and faces homelessness or death.
So I sympathize with the people who are complaining about the robots. As much as I want a scifi future with a bunch of automation, I want exploitation of the lower class to end first.
funchords@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
The unemployment rates in the USA and Canada are both far below norms. These robots aren’t taking anyone’s irreplaceable job. Of all the things they are (ugly, intrusive, annoying), one of the things they’re not doing is driving up unemployment. At worst, someone has to change jobs.
funchords@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
yet work more than any other time in history.
My impression is that we’re the most leisurely, per capita, than we’ve ever been. The average workweek now is 34 hours, down from 60-70 in the 1850s.
fugepe@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Low income white neighborhoods have lower crime rates than black middle/high neighborhoods. There is no more blind person that the one who doesnt want to see.
CaptainAniki@lemmy.flight-crew.org 1 year ago
Fuck the capital class and fuck these robots.
Rob. Them. All.
energetic695@lemmy.ko4abp.com 1 year ago
time to stock up on crowbars and sledgehammers
CaptainAniki@lemmy.flight-crew.org 1 year ago
Don’t forget bolt cutters and spray paint
Plopp@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ll get my own crowbars and sledgehammers, with blackjack and hookers!
Aux@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You seem like a person who would enjoy a forced labour!
fugepe@lemmy.world 1 year ago
youre either mentally ill or a mutt. No excuses.
CaptainAniki@lemmy.flight-crew.org 1 year ago
You’re either a boot licker or a coward. no excuses.
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
some robots have been robbed of the goods they’re delivering, including food.
That was easy to predict, wasn’t it?
cyd@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Here’s an idea, don’t launch these services in low trust, high crime places. In California, people can walk into a fully staffed Walgreens and commit blatant theft with no repercussions; a poor robot out in the world stands no chance.
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Youve fallen into a rightwing echo chamber:
[Maybe we cried too much’: Walgreens hints it exaggerated shoplifting surge
ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I used to work in a Vons in Santa Monica in 2016. We had thefts every day. Some even got violent. Our manager got tired of it and threatened to break someone’s legs after they walked out of the store with something one morning. The theft problem in CA is real.
punkisundead@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
posted that to !shoplifting@slrpnk.net btw
art@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There’s a lot of parallels here. One I’m not on the side of Walgreens and I’m not on the side of the robot. If it comes down to petty crime but the only victim is an insured multi-billion dollar conglomerate I’m not going to shead a tear.
scytale@lemm.ee 1 year ago
This is why we can’t have nice things.
art@lemmy.world 1 year ago
These were never nice things.
willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
These robots are a hazard and a nuissante to the pedestrians. I won’t shed a single tear for these tincans on wheels. I would not order one of these either.
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 1 year ago
Yeah cars are so much better and safer \s
Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
100% expected.
ebenixo@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
This is actually how rights for robots will be a thing. So the proletariat knows to stay in line and never harm or try to subvert the robots made by the elite class to extract wealth
Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I really loath thieves, but that’s fucking hilarious.
FormerlyChucks@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Woah easy on the racism pal
CaptainAniki@lemmy.flight-crew.org 1 year ago
What race is thief?
infyrin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“Smaller delivery robots feature cameras and sirens to ward off thieves and vandals, though these measures do not appear to be effective in all instances.”
Well of course not, that’d be like someone screaming “STOP!! STOP!!” over and over as they’re being beaten down to death.
These things need to deploy gasses and non-lethal weapons if they want to be effective. Can’t afford it? Oh well.
CaptainAniki@lemmy.flight-crew.org 1 year ago
You’re a awful human being. Pay people what they are worth.
SCB@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Arm the robots.
gamebird@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My brain assumed from the title that this would actually be about robot porch pirates now prowling the neighbourhood. I’m thankful we’re not there… yet.
ComfortablyGlum@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I don’t want to rob it; I want to turn it on its side, put it in a box, put a tiny tire boot on it.
CaptainAniki@lemmy.flight-crew.org 1 year ago
I want to rob it then blow it up into a million pieces.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
My (unpopular?) solution is to make sure the rest of society isn’t so desperate for food that they’re willing to rob a robot.
In an unrelated suggestion, if youre in a grocery store and see someone stealing food, no you didn’t.
FredericChopin_@feddit.uk 1 year ago
It really pissed me off how people don’t seem to realise that most crime is due to a failure of society and that if we give people prospects then crime will go down.
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Preach. Harsh penalties with no rehabilitation and an uncaring system with no safety net?
If you can’t get a job and can’t eat without a job, who wouldn’t do crime?
Aux@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No, most crime is due to a personal failure. Play stupid games - win stupid prizes.
MostlyMute@lemmy.world 1 year ago
As someone who works in a grocery store, most of the people I see stealing are stealing stuff like makeup or drinks and junk food, not necessities. And our regular thieves spend hundreds on cigarettes a week, while still stealing whatever they want because they know they’ll get away with it.
FredericChopin_@feddit.uk 1 year ago
If you think about it’s easier to steal higher value items that have a good resale value, rather than a complete food shop.
Sure, some people steal out of more than necessity, whether that be drug addiction (which should also be fixed at the root) or other issues.
The fact is quite simple that the more we give people prospects then the more crime will go down.
CaptainAniki@lemmy.flight-crew.org 1 year ago
So in other words entirely not relevant to the ethos of “someone stealing food.”
You just wanted to dunk on assholes. Good job, I guess.
SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Pretty sure Uber will just rig the robots with C4 when someone tries to steal the food. And then monetize the video of it on you tube. And garnish the cost of maintaining the deceased persons tombstone.
hedgehog@ttrpg.network 1 year ago
Later, Uber would be sued for not actually providing the tombstones and for over-charging for them when they were provided.
They would counter that they had contracted a third party, X, to provide the tombstones, on behalf of the deceased, and had merely paid the invoices on the deceaseds’ behalfs, and that X, not Uber, would be liable for any failure to provide said tombstones or to have over-billed for them.
Years later, Uber would “lose” the case and would be ordered to send $3.50 to anyone who had sent them payments for tombstones between the years of 2024 and 2026, and $43.8 million to the attorneys on the case. They would also be required to set up a free tombstone check account for anyone who requested one in lieu of that payment, but they would only give 30 days to claim the account and would send it with a spammy sounding title like “Claim your free account now!” ensuring that only 4% of the eligible people actually managed to claim one.
Overall Uber will have made $418 million profit from their burial and tombstone billing service.
SCB@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They should sue the families for lost robot productivity too