Adam Kamiński
stux⚡️Whoopsie! Did I send the wrong command again.. 
FallsMom 🌻
@stux LOL, I think I hear those sirens outside my house!!!
Andy Carolan 
@stux "every year these magnificent creatures gather in their natural mating grounds, their horn-like mating call audible over great distances”
Darrin West@stux In online games, we are sensitive to flash mobs overloading a given zone and slowing down a server. We build a fail safe that prevents more than a certain density of objects. (One way to do that is to teleport a random object out of the zone, when things get bad enough). I’d imagine there’s a central dispatcher that could tell the density exceeded a reasonable level and should have just started saying “do not enter”.
Hugo Mills@obviousdwest @stux Oh, that gives me flashbacks to a game I dev'd for a couple of decades ago...
We didn't have proper locks on the database, and we had parties that the players could set up, where a sizeable fraction of the players would show up and start swapping stuff.
Items missing between the cracks, items duplicated (including unique items)... it was "fun". $fun. fun < epsilon. Y'know... *that* sort of fun.
rifter@stux The future™
David J. Atkinson@stux I’m fascinated by emergent phenomena in multi-agent systems (#AI, Human, combo). This looks like a great example.
- Is this a type of flocking behavior?
- Did some other #autonomous vehicle/company deceive these autos to come to this place?
- Is the result of a routing #algorithm succumbing to natural traffic bottlenecks?
On the practical side, how does anyone undo this situation?
Brent, in a jar@meltedcheese
Kill it with fire!
I am seriously impressed by those peoples' self control. It wouldn't take more than a dozen people to flip one of those menaces on to its back and out of the road
@stux
Kill it with fire!
I am seriously impressed by those peoples' self control. It wouldn't take more than a dozen people to flip one of those menaces on to its back and out of the road
@stux
Netux@BrentInMasto @meltedcheese @stux
Have you ever experienced Austin traffic? It's right up there with Chicago. The volume and shit design of the roads, there are pretty consistent traffic jams.
The robo cars are still generally better drivers than the Austinites.
Have you ever experienced Austin traffic? It's right up there with Chicago. The volume and shit design of the roads, there are pretty consistent traffic jams.
The robo cars are still generally better drivers than the Austinites.
@Netux
I haven't been in Austin since 1993 but I know Chicago traffic so this makes sense to me now
@meltedcheese @stux
I haven't been in Austin since 1993 but I know Chicago traffic so this makes sense to me now
@meltedcheese @stux
Bret Mogilefsky@meltedcheese @stux There should be an automated call to a remote operator if they're stuck in a situation they can't handle.
@meltedcheese @stux
I dunno, I'm not paid VC money to figure it out for them. But as a freebie...
Stuck in the middle of an intersection not moving for 10 minutes? "Report problem" button accessible to the passengers? Data analytics that alerts when one of the cars can't move because another of their cars is in the way, and looks for cycles?
GayCookie 
@stux What people see when you're on Street View xd
@GayCookie 
Perhaps this is the new "Live StreepView Maps 0.1"
Perhaps this is the new "Live StreepView Maps 0.1"
CurtAdams@stux It's a parody horror movie: Night of the Robot Cars!!!
dominic 🌱@stux the future is so much dumber than I was promised as a kid
LakeRNistired@dominicvfx @stux See the movie Idiocracy
Andreas Brunthaler@dominicvfx
Maybe they are actually smart and protest climate change by blocking the roads, without the risk of going to jail? 😉
@stux @jknodlseder
Maybe they are actually smart and protest climate change by blocking the roads, without the risk of going to jail? 😉
@stux @jknodlseder
Coyoty on the Hill@stux They forgot to include Cruise Control.
active landslide@stux this is good, actually
Coles Street Pothole@stux The future is here, and it is so stupid.
tylernol@ColesStreetPothole @stux that appears to be the traffic jam that occurred in West Campus in Austin a week ago or so.
Jonathan HendryDo those things have back-of-headrest displays showing ads at the passengers?
pinecones@stux lmaoooooo
Alan Miller 
🇺🇦@stux was the big cheer partway through someone finally flipping one over onto the sidewalk and off the road?
Constantin A.
Tristan Nitot✓
Fabimaru
lopta@stux "In retrospect, we shouldn't have named the new intersection 127.0.0.1".
don Elías (como los buses) 🥨@stux from around the world we could thank US politicians for confirming how irresponsible and uh... not very smart is to allow tech bro companies to deploy mediocre technological "solutions" like those robotaxies.
People literally die because someone in a power position believed the BS from those techno snake oil salesmen.
Timothy Wolodzko@stux “Intelligent” cars.
Jason Petersen (he)@stux nature is healing
kira :3@stux it actually is funny to imagine how we're just giving anyone determined enough a way to ddos roads lmao
Caleb Warren@stux should any one company have this sort of control over public roads?
Imagine what this would look like on a highway.
Or a remote support engineer decides to go rogue to control a fleet.
Who would pay for these mistakes? Of course, it will be us.
Max Wainwright@stux those poor wankpanzer inhabitants 🥲
Michael Thériault@stux They seem to store a Cruise car in my #SanFrancisco neighborhood, the Excelsior, by having it drive empty around and around and around. This helps traffic and the environment exactly how?
Peter Makholm (Dansk)@stux Look like a scene from the film adaptation of Attack Surface.
@stux I can't understand why there isn't an automated distress call to a remote operator to unfuck them when this kind of tangle happens.
Martin Hamilton
re-curse@stux reminds me of a story by @pluralistic
nicksname he/him@stux is this an american climate protest, or normal trafic? I don't speak car. :/
marble 弹珠@stux don't let CGPgrey see this.
Flüpke
Mohs@stux so THAT spot is meant, when moving cars to /dev/null
Dirty Hippie
Uwe Stange@stux do those move for fire trucks, ambulances, police? Or will this be implemented with next sprint?
Kevin Karhan 
@stux I'm so glad this shit is illegal in #Germany, cuz if cops weren't towing them for "needlessly driving within city limits" (which is a crime due to envoirmental damages caused by it) people would propably steal thease #deadheading shitboxes for parts and set then on fire for lulz...
Not that I want to see the two latter things to happen!
Arsonry is bad!!
Enkiusz🇺🇦@stux self-driving cars will ease congestion 🤡
Dieu@stux calls to unionisation heeded, robots now on strike
Thijs LucasWenn die Autolobby #LetzteGeneration macht, dann aber richtig
Beluga@stux Skynet having fun.
mk30
jan klarname ullrich@stux this is horseshit 🤣
SerenityfreaksoutSure, there are not enough idiots on the streets yet, we urgently need Artificial Idiots.
Timjan@stux
Don't worry, when I used to play #simutrans , this would happen all the time.
Granted ... pixels on a screen versus rubber on the road ...