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DoorDashers are getting paid to close Waymo's self-driving car doors

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Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.engadget.com/transportation/doordashers-are-getting-paid-to-close-waymos-self-driving-car-doors-122711640.html?src=rss

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  • DannyMac@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    They have self-driving cars, but self-closing doors is still at least 10-15 years away.

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  • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Putting aside all the late stage capitalism going on here, I still can’t get over the fact that Alphabet (Google) spent billions of dollars developing self driving car technology only to arrive at, “Oh shit. Someone left the car door open. What do we do now?”

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    • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Giving them the ability to close their own doors just screams “kid’s arm smashed in automatic car door failure”.

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      • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I used to have a Tesla (traded it in). In the app you could open, but not close, the windows. It could be inconvenient at times but I assume the reasoning was similar.

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    • Chulk@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Even if this thing was left on a single city block for 8 hours with its door open, the data it collects about nearby cars, Bluetooth devices, phones, WiFi SSIDs, recorded video/audio, etc. makes it worth it for alphabet, I imagine.

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    • partofthevoice@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This shows you just how strong our culture is an influence here. You can leave a door open and cause enough trouble that they need to hire someone else to go manually shut it. I’m willing to get there are a lot of seemingly innocuous ways to cause friction with these companies. The more people know and exploit them, the better.

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      • RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Supposedly a salt circle drawn like “no entry” road markings can trap them.

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    • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      When I was a kid my dad would drive forward and slam the brakes to close our van door.

      It was really fun until that became the only way that closed the door.

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  • edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Does it charge extra to the last person that used the Waymo to cover the cost? Because if not, might as well just leave the door open every time, now you’re a job creator.

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    • Corngood@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Just keep the door and you’re creating even more jobs in the door factory.

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  • Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Clearly that’s why it’s called DoorDash. /s

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    • siravious@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Take my upvote and gtfo 😂

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  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    so from now on leave all waymo’s open and if you see one open no you don’t

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    • 87Six@lemmy.zip ⁨42⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Don’t forget to fart as deep into the chair cushions as possible as well

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  • itsathursday@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The cost of doing business is to pay a poor to close a door and keep the wheels of progress spinning.

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  • skip0110@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hmmm…so it costs Waymo $11.25 if you “forget” to shut the door.

    Maybe people will become very forgetful.

    Or, upon reflection, just don’t use Waymo, and don’t play into it at all.

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    • LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If you leave it all the way open, the car just needs to drive a couple feet with decent acceleration to close it.

      If you ALMOST close it, but not all the way, that would require some sort of intervention.

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      • tyler@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Nah, you just speed up then slam on the brakes to open it, then you can close it as you said.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Need a car to get to the airport, because my city doesn’t have mass transit.

      If the only cars in my area are Waymos, do I just skip my flight?

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      • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        “Don’t use X” always means “it’s okay to use X if there are no alternatives but do look for alternatives”. Unless X is X. Then don’t use X.

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      • skip0110@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Well, in that case maybe you just forget to shut the door ;)

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  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    self driving cars

    Top notch, very latest, highest technology, aren’t they?

    LMAO!!

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  • Canuck@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Its funny because in the US, there are regulations that make it such that, even if they have the capability to close the doors remotely and anti pinch sensors etc, they are not allowed to unless it is done by someone from a device nearby while they hold down the close button.

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  • verdantbanana@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    is there no saving this timeline?

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The future is clocking in for another 12 hour shift at the “making minor adjustments to the super intelligent AI widget making machine” so you can afford to eat the bugs and live in the pod

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  • nialv7@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    see? ai does create new jobs. checkmate ai doomers /s

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  • anguo@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Can’t the car just back up half a meter then quickly go forward half a meter?

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    • brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨55⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Now I’m imagining the car shaking off like a wet dog to shut its doors.

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  • DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    New rule, if you order one - fail to close the doors properly.

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    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Door dashers certainly will be doing this

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  • rollerbang@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Just accelerate at full power and the doors will close themselves, duh.

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    • XLE@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Move fast and break things!

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    • some_designer_dude@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Or reverse slightly and stop…

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  • Soulphite@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Humans are dumb. I mean humans can do awesome super intelligent things, but the average human is a dumb piece of shit.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Humans know how to close a car door.

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      • EvilBit@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        This, along with the story of the driverless car running over a beloved neighborhood cat, highlight the fundamental problem here: they’re training these systems to be autonomous cars - and they’re impressively close - but they’re still miles away from creating a simulation of an autonomous human. Not everything about operating a car is driving it.

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      • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Obviously they don’t.

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      • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        but they don’t give a fuck and just walk away.

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      • Soulphite@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I didn’t imply the human didn’t know how to close a car door. I am saying the human is dumb for specifically choosing to be a piece of shit for NOT closing the car door.

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  • devolution@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So what’s the point if a future car can’t close itself?

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    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The US has serious FUD w regards to self driving vehicles and legal issues are in the way. Obviously the car could be built to do this safely but there are laws that prohibit this.

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      • devolution@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Of course it is.

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Elon’s robots can close the doors.

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    • ThePantser@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And lock them, then self immolate

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