Clearly that’s why it’s called DoorDash. /s
DoorDashers are getting paid to close Waymo's self-driving car doors
Submitted 2 months ago by Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip to technology@lemmy.world
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Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
siravious@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Take my upvote and gtfo 😂
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
Corngood@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Just keep the door and you’re creating even more jobs in the door factory.
DannyMac@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
They have self-driving cars, but self-closing doors is still at least 10-15 years away.
Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 2 months ago
Only because you can’t outsource door closing to the Philippines
Matty_r@programming.dev 2 months ago
I imagine there would be a gigantic list of safety concerns for self-closing doors.
real_squids@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
They already exist though? There are a bunch of EVs with servos in their doors. You can still overpower it just like you can an auto closing trunk
Krzd@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Eh, we already have self closing trunks. As long as they are programmed correctly (not by Tesla) they sense resistance and stop.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
I’ve seen cars with self-closing doors though. Also I’m not sure where the safety consideration would come in since we have so closing building doors right now and no one seems to get cut in half by those.
b_tr3e@feddit.org 2 months ago
Nothing a slipping clutch won’t fix. There already are self-closing doors everywhere. Maybe not in cars but in all sorts of vehicles and everywhere in buildings.
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Minivans have had self-closing doors for decades bro
DannyMac@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
You’re right! Tech companies need to stick to the easier problem to solve, self-driving cars! 😆
skip0110@lemmy.zip 2 months 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.
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 2 months 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.
tyler@programming.dev 2 months ago
Nah, you just speed up then slam on the brakes to open it, then you can close it as you said.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 months 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?
Lumidaub@feddit.org 2 months 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.
skip0110@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Well, in that case maybe you just forget to shut the door ;)
itsathursday@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The cost of doing business is to pay a poor to close a door and keep the wheels of progress spinning.
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 2 months ago
so from now on leave all waymo’s open and if you see one open no you don’t
87Six@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Don’t forget to fart as deep into the chair cushions as possible as well
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 2 months ago
No this is more like that old legend about the French colonial forces trying to solve the local rat problem in a Vietnamese city by paying the local populations 1 franc per rat that they kill and turn in. It made the local breed rats to kill and turn.
We need to recognize we are now “the locals” in that scenario. We need to milk the billionaire class dry at every turn.
anon_8675309@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Give people a dollar discount off their ride if they close the door on the way out.
scottrepreneur@lemmy.world 2 months ago
But charge an extra dollar first
cdf12345@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
have a friend stalk Waymo’s and give the passenger $5 to leave the door ajar a bit .
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Why are people leaving the doors open in the first place that’s just wild. The super excited to get to work or something I don’t get it.
Wouldn’t the simplest solution be to just ban people who leave the doors open, it’s not that hard to close them.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Probably the doors are in the “unlatched” position rather than wide open.
pirat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Maybe some people simply expect an autonomous vehicle to be able to autonomously close its doors in the safest possible way without assistance. Maybe they actually think they’re doing it right by not forcing the doors?
timestatic@feddit.org 2 months ago
Why can’t they build a mechanism where the car can close its own doors. I thought that would be the smaller part compared to autonomous self driving
bold_atlas@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The gig worker is the mechanism. Very innovative tech.
macke49@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Human driven taxis have mechanically closing passenger doors for decades. It’s a big bug software and a management a failure . This can’t be street legal. Autonomous cabs are billionaires snake oil
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Hell, the Mexican colectivo van driver closes the sliding doors on his rattly 20 year old van simply by hard braking.
nialv7@lemmy.world 2 months ago
see? ai does create new jobs. checkmate ai doomers /s
verdantbanana@lemmy.world 2 months ago
is there no saving this timeline?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 months 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
Canuck@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 2 months ago
New rule, if you order one - fail to close the doors properly.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Door dashers certainly will be doing this
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Instead of take-a-penny leave-a-penny, close-a-door open-a-door
rollerbang@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Just accelerate at full power and the doors will close themselves, duh.
XLE@piefed.social 2 months ago
Move fast and break things!
some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Or reverse slightly and stop…
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 2 months ago
self driving cars
Top notch, very latest, highest technology, aren’t they?
LMAO!!
Soulphite@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Humans are dumb. I mean humans can do awesome super intelligent things, but the average human is a dumb piece of shit.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Humans know how to close a car door.
EvilBit@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Obviously they don’t.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
but they don’t give a fuck and just walk away.
Soulphite@reddthat.com 2 months 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.
devolution@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So what’s the point if a future car can’t close itself?
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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.
devolution@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Of course it is.
anguo@piefed.ca 2 months ago
Can’t the car just back up half a meter then quickly go forward half a meter?
brsrklf@jlai.lu 2 months ago
Now I’m imagining the car shaking off like a wet dog to shut its doors.
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 2 months ago
back up half a meter then quickly go forward
…in order to kill a few more people than they already do?
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Elon’s robots can close the doors.
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
And lock them, then self immolate
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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?”
Lumidaub@feddit.org 2 months ago
Giving them the ability to close their own doors just screams “kid’s arm smashed in automatic car door failure”.
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
b_tr3e@feddit.org 2 months ago
Behold the miracle of the slipping clutch, millenials. See It working without being digital and all without an app by the ancient secrets of mechanics!
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Perfect argument that they are too immature to be on the road.
timestatic@feddit.org 2 months ago
Just make the motor not slam the door but close it slowly with not enough force to harm someone and put like two sensors + 1 backup in there
andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
That’s silly. This is already a ubiquitous feature in minivans.
Smoogs@lemmy.world 2 months ago
But they built in a saw blade killswitch if a finger is detected a good decade ago or more. Surely they can apply such technology to cars.
partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 2 months 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.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Supposedly a salt circle drawn like “no entry” road markings can trap them.
jimmy90@lemmy.world 2 months ago
the revolution IS YOU
Chulk@lemmy.ml 2 months 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.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 months 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.