return2ozmaSelf-Driving Waymo Cab Smashes Into Delivery Robot
MyOpinionThe future is now!
macnielThe shadow wars
SundrayThe laws of robotics:
dual_sport_dork đ§đĄď¸
mumblerfishOh yeah, that reminds me I wanted to replay that game.
Altima NEONah youâre good
Rise of The Robots - The Worst Fighting Game
RhaedasFirst glance I thought that was One Must Fall: 2097, but turns out below it doesn't even get close to that epic level.
To be fair, given its legacy now as one of the worst one-on-one fighting games in the history of the universe, Rise of the Robots probably wishes it was One Must Fall.
AnUnusualRelicEw, not the robocondom!
BjĂśrnWeâll win the robot wars by pitting them against each other.
As it turns out, the impact wasnât too severe. The Waymo cab, to its credit, hit the brakes immediately and avoided knocking the poor little thing over. And moments later, while the robotaxi is still in a daze, the Serve robot drives away like nothing happened.
Smash seems to be overselling it.
They had hot, angry robot sex afterward
For revenge or for reconciliation?
The word âslamâ has been reserved for headlines of someone giving minor criticism, canât use that unfortunately.
It appears the video may have been sped up in the part just before the impact. I would like to see the unedited clip, I bet it was way less severe than it looked.
Sounds like a good time to use the word âbumpâ
Maybe even âboopâ.
Notice the bias they even throw in to try to humanize the delivery robot. âStill in a dazeâ personifying it. No mention of who manufactured the robot who crossed a road with a do not walk sign, and then stopped in the road at the end for no reason
Little robot crossed against the signal, and couldnât navigate the curb, big robot didnât yield to the pedestrian walk way. What a shit show. Glad it wasnât someone in a wheel chair.
So what weâre saying is, this is it, folks. Weâve finally reached robot parity with exactly how humans would behave in the same situation.
and didnât yield to the pedestrian walk way.
The Waymo is guilty.
The scene was clearly visible and it hit the brake much too late at that speed.
I hate seeing this kind of bot on bot crime
DiplomjodlerWhere were you during the robot wars of 2025?
rnerclevideo of it on www.youtube.com/watch?v=hazFkED40KI if you donât want to go to reddit through the linked page
WAYMO SELF-DRIVING ROBOTAXI COLLIDES WITH A DELIVERY ROBOT IN AN INTERSECTION? #Waymo #robotaxi
Donât really want to go to YouTube either, but thank you.
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Jesus yâall are a bunch of lock-stepping little fascists.
modifierYou must be exhausted.
Yeah everyone knows the best crushes are on liveleak
QuadratureSurferHey, it actually stopped without plowing on very far at all. Thatâs better than what I expected to happen.
This new season of Robot Wars / Battle Bots is starting strong
DUMBASSThat was personal, thereâs definitely some beef between them.
ObiniceYou call that a smash? Stop sensationalising, come now.
A car gently tapped a thing during a turn and came to a stop.
We can discuss now who had the right of way.
But can we?
Do robots suddenly have rights?
x00zI see nobody talking about this, but arenât the Waymo(s) trained on data which most likely did not include these robots yet?
It seems like this is just something thatâll probably happen a lot whenever something new is introduced on the roads.
Well, they should try to avoid any object in the road to be honest. Imagine a new toy comes out that a child is on. Sorry we killed that child l, we didnât train it on that new toy.
Its just an unacceptable answer to be honest.
That is also very true.
Itâs not a Tesla so Iâm sure they are investigating the cause.
The Waymo did exactly what it was supposed to do. The robot ran a red light (really a donât walk through crosswalk) and unexpectedly stopped around a corner before exiting the road as it would normally do. The Waymo spotted it and breaked and got down to about 4 mph. Then the robot drove away and nothing was really damaged so no one is talking about it. All of that information was in the article, but the the titile is ragebait to point anger at self driving cars, itâs easy to tell because we donât even know the name of the delivery robot or what company it was working forâŚ
âDelivery robot causes car accident.â would be a more accurate title.
but arenât the Waymo(s) trained on data which most likely did not include these robots yet?
You can say that about nearly 100% of humans as well.
So Iâm finding it hard to find a release date for humans, but Iâm fairly short predated the invention of self-driving cars.
For example I seem to remember being alive in the 1990s
JohnEdwaInattentional blindness is a bitch.
ZacryonI donât know about the equipment of Waymo cars, but I would be surprised if they didnât have LIDARs or some other form of distance based environment detection.
And that should be sufficient to implement basic obstacle detection. You donât need to use machine learning if you can use sensors telling you that âsomething is too closeâ.
The article title is misleading as usual.
The car collided after hitting the brakes, seems there wasnât any real damage. It seems the system is designed to only lessen the impact when it detects the obstacle as non-human. If it would have recognized the robot as human, it would have probably acted differently.
Better to hit the object and lessen the impact than to fully brake/avoid and risk worse.
SkunkWorkzExpect reCaptcha to ask you to identify food delivery robots soon.
Wouldnât be surprised tbh.
There should be an open communication standard that all robots use to communicate with each other.
And it will only be used for good and nothing nefarious.
There should be an open communication standard that all robots use to communicate with each other.
Yes!
And it will only be used for good and nothing nefarious.
Oh no
Aside from the obvious I, Robot movie allusion, this idea doesnât really work in the real world because robots have to be able to detect the presence and anticipate the actions of non-robots anyway. Unless youâre willing to ban all the actual people from the street, which is unreasonable, robot-to-robot communication doesnât actually help you.
Robots can look different to people, if they know where each other are then they csn prioritise a collision with a robot over a human etc.
Put common channel com devices on all people too. Solved!
How about if we had sixteen different proprietary such protocols instead?
Weâd need a seventeenth unifying protocol
Obviously.
Begun, the robot wars have.
hmancusoEvery robot should have some kind of electronic blinker to let others know theyâre robots. That way, we can avoid a bunch of bumps and crashes.
Nice try, skynetâŚ
We could always consider reaching out to Harrison Ford for a classic bot chase.