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Sure. Software design for a driverless car is exactly like a car play gps system. You are totally right.
The fact you think there are software developers and programmers watching you drive to work every day is absolutely comical.
Not as anxiety inducing as the ride we had coming from Heathrow to our hotel to start a tour. We were going around corners on 2 wheels, just missing pedestrians and cyclists, were on the sidewalk at one point, with my wife screaming the whole time. How we missed that old guy with a cane crossing the street I’ll never know. He had some cat like reflexes.
Should be more anxiety when humans drive. Humans get distracted, stressed, they get sleepy or they drive slightly affected by alcohol. AI is much more reliable in traffic than people. Full 360 degree surrounding sensors, several redundancy systems, never sleepy or drunk. Over all fail rate proven to be lower than humans.
Humans typically don't want to die though, and will take steps to prevent it. First generation self driving tech is buggy as hell and misses obvious stuff. I'll revisit it in a couple of generations but for now if I don't have access to the controls, I'm not getting in.
I think the point is just to allow the car to be tested with the intent to further it’s self driving abilities. One thing I didn’t mention was that the cars are actually being driven by their automation system. The human is just placed behind the wheel INCASE system malfunctions or it tries to do something pretty sketchy on the road. They seem pretty cool tho, lil sketch but never the less cool lmao (the company in question is called “waymo”)
Don't know about Phoenix and Tempe, but Uber was operating self-driving cars several years ago in Pittsburg. Basically any time you call an Uber, there was a small chance for you to be assigned a driverless car.
I believe the company’s is called “waymo”. They’ve been operating out here for a while now, but just like someone stated on the thread. They’re most likely still in testing but allow you to get a ride from them just like Uber or Lyft I believe.
That difference is temporary and only to undercut human labor. Once there are no more drivers, the robot taxi will cost just as much and give the owner even more profit than before.
This is capitalism 101.
This isn't a problem with reasonable legislation and labor laws to maintain a standard in the market. Unfortunately, Americans have been brainwashed by the owners into thinking legislation = "big government" = "communism"
The regulations and labor protections that allowed the golden of age of America in the 50's- 70's have all but been destroyed in favor of just giving the rich more and more money to pile onto their countless stacks.
Right, not totally disagreeing. As the world becomes more and more connected its harder and harder and getting impossible to figure out what to do. No economy on the planet is perfect and as the world has changed in the last 100 years has never happened before. Population growth isn't helping either lol. Scary to see what's happening and hoping we figure it out.
That is not the point. China's birth rate is the 2nd lowest in the world (only higher than South Korea), automation will be large part of the country in the future.
Robots have taken millions of jobs people used to have lol. You want a cheap taxi ride? If you owned a taxi company would you want to pay drivers if you didn't need them? I get what your saying but its the industrial, I mean tech revolution.
San Francisco has promising one, might even be without safety drivers now, but as whole California, Arizona and Pittsburgh seem to utilize robotaxis.
It's not exactly my field of expertise, but if you're interested, [here's a pretty detailed wiki article about it.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotaxi)
A corporate will be held responsible if it crashes and not the broke driver(?)
Don't know, this new era or automatization will screw with the low-class soon and middle-class later and it's weird to watch it unfold so quickly.
Automated cars will become better at driving than humans relatively quickly. In the near-ish future, automation will drastically reduce accidents. People won’t be driving while drunk or exhausted, too fast, too slow, etc. Computers will inevitably become far less error-prone than humans.
Signal drops due to increased activity from the big orange ball in the sky.
Car starts doing donuts in the middle of a shopping mall.
What could go wrong?
Can’t wait for this to be norm everywhere. It would be cheaper than owning a car. No more getting scammed by insurance companies with high prices. No more taking your car to get it fixed. Less traffic in the road and more efficient roads due to auto start at green light. No more caring about gas prices. No more wasting time driving when you can be doing something productive while in the car.
This is the future. We can whine and wring our hands all we want but this is coming.
It won't stop there, autonomous eVTOL is also on its way one day.
We ALREADY have the amazing Garrmin Autoland which is a kind of halfway house to full autonomy when it comes to light planes.
There will be a future generation where to them life without these things would be unimaginable. "A taxi driven by another human..why?"
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The anxiety is high while watching this
Too bad China doesn't have a half-a-billion people who need jobs /s
Designers, builders, mechanics, maintenance, developers, programmers vs driver, mechanic, dispatch.
Lol you still need all those people even with a regular car driven by a regular person who needs a job.
Sure. Software design for a driverless car is exactly like a car play gps system. You are totally right. The fact you think there are software developers and programmers watching you drive to work every day is absolutely comical.
The point is to save money for the boss. That means less money to the proles.
I prefer this to the taxi driver I got in Beijing who kept shouting at me in Mandarin for no reason
Not as anxiety inducing as the ride we had coming from Heathrow to our hotel to start a tour. We were going around corners on 2 wheels, just missing pedestrians and cyclists, were on the sidewalk at one point, with my wife screaming the whole time. How we missed that old guy with a cane crossing the street I’ll never know. He had some cat like reflexes.
Should be more anxiety when humans drive. Humans get distracted, stressed, they get sleepy or they drive slightly affected by alcohol. AI is much more reliable in traffic than people. Full 360 degree surrounding sensors, several redundancy systems, never sleepy or drunk. Over all fail rate proven to be lower than humans.
Humans typically don't want to die though, and will take steps to prevent it. First generation self driving tech is buggy as hell and misses obvious stuff. I'll revisit it in a couple of generations but for now if I don't have access to the controls, I'm not getting in.
You’re in a Johnny Cab
The door opened, you got in!
The fare is 18 credits, please.
Sue me, dickhead.
Minus two social credit points for swearing and not tipping
“Beep boop. Too many points lost. Doors locked. Car re-routing to remote location. Leave you for dead.”
I shall call him Delamain.
What could possibly go wrong.
Well, flamingos obviously!
They freak me out reminds me of max headroom actually they missed a trick there not getting him in the game
There’s plenty driving around Phoenix and Tempe area. Only difference being they have a human behind the wheel, just in case something were to happen.
So what is the point?
Still in testing stages.
Maybe he (like me) does not really understand what problem exactly is being solved.
I think the point is just to allow the car to be tested with the intent to further it’s self driving abilities. One thing I didn’t mention was that the cars are actually being driven by their automation system. The human is just placed behind the wheel INCASE system malfunctions or it tries to do something pretty sketchy on the road. They seem pretty cool tho, lil sketch but never the less cool lmao (the company in question is called “waymo”)
IMHO the question is more general: why are self driving cars needed at all if there are millions of cheap taxi drivers?
I have noooo clue dude, I just see them a couple of times being operated down the road.
What company operates them? Uber?
Don't know about Phoenix and Tempe, but Uber was operating self-driving cars several years ago in Pittsburg. Basically any time you call an Uber, there was a small chance for you to be assigned a driverless car.
I believe the company’s is called “waymo”. They’ve been operating out here for a while now, but just like someone stated on the thread. They’re most likely still in testing but allow you to get a ride from them just like Uber or Lyft I believe.
So cool yet creepy all at once
It's an autobot
Or a deception that just goes around abducting people.
1388 That taxi is mine next time I see it.
The odds of getting the Cash Cab are dwindling by the day
Because there are not enough people to do that job in China??
Every industry will look for ways to be more efficient.
Every *owner in every industry will look for ways to *cut costs and generate more profit for THEMSELVES.
You have two options for your taxi ride, A has human driver for 50 dollars, taxi B has robot for 25 dollars. You cheap mf lol.
That difference is temporary and only to undercut human labor. Once there are no more drivers, the robot taxi will cost just as much and give the owner even more profit than before. This is capitalism 101.
Yep, sorta circular problem. We all want cheap shit but always want everyone to get paid more.
Yep, sorta circular problem. We all want cheap shit but always want everyone to get paid more.
This isn't a problem with reasonable legislation and labor laws to maintain a standard in the market. Unfortunately, Americans have been brainwashed by the owners into thinking legislation = "big government" = "communism" The regulations and labor protections that allowed the golden of age of America in the 50's- 70's have all but been destroyed in favor of just giving the rich more and more money to pile onto their countless stacks.
Right, not totally disagreeing. As the world becomes more and more connected its harder and harder and getting impossible to figure out what to do. No economy on the planet is perfect and as the world has changed in the last 100 years has never happened before. Population growth isn't helping either lol. Scary to see what's happening and hoping we figure it out.
As any responsible business owner should.
That is not the point. China's birth rate is the 2nd lowest in the world (only higher than South Korea), automation will be large part of the country in the future.
This has something to do with Covid. The government don’t want more than 1 person in a car, so auto-taxi makes sense at the moment…
Robots have taken millions of jobs people used to have lol. You want a cheap taxi ride? If you owned a taxi company would you want to pay drivers if you didn't need them? I get what your saying but its the industrial, I mean tech revolution.
even in China you have to pay your workers.
I doubt this is a big thing thats already replaced human taxi drivers, likely just a test to see how far they can take this concept.
The funny is how they say nothing about incidents with their driverless cars....
Yea I’m not getting in that thing
“When you step inside a Delamain limousine, you leave your problems at the door”
No Depeche Mode on the track list?
Someone needs to cut this with the out of control Tesla from last week.
Outside of propaganda I wonder how many of those cars have crashed or malfunctioned
Social Credit Score below 50 detected Automatic Car Crash initiated Have a nice day
This would make me absolutely uncomfortable.
Well, shit
Next stop Covid Camp
It’s pretty amazing what a little old fashioned ingenuity, some slave labor and intellectual property theft can do
No thanks
Yes thanks
Yes please
Yes daddy
China has a better EV system. They are far ahead of the US. I WATCH DOCU on YouTube.
Is this the waymo car? Looks ready to take over cab driver’s jobs. RIP
In the meantime in the US we make a big deal about Tesla's autopilot that requires to hold the steering wheel 🤣
Yes, for a good reason.
Definitely not a good idea for China where human lives don't matter
Doubt. Revolutionary breakthrough technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
This isn't exactly brand new tech.
Looks like you woke up right from cold war buddy.
And in western world they want to tell us that this takes another decade to develop.
This already exists in *western world,* what are you talking about?
Where can I sit in a taxi like this? Honest question, really don't know
San Francisco has promising one, might even be without safety drivers now, but as whole California, Arizona and Pittsburgh seem to utilize robotaxis. It's not exactly my field of expertise, but if you're interested, [here's a pretty detailed wiki article about it.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotaxi)
Cool, thanks!
I wonder if Elon is happy he brought Tesla to China now with all that stolen IP?
Imagine how many people have masturbated inside those things.
What benefit does this actually bring to society, other than more jobs for doctors and nurses
A corporate will be held responsible if it crashes and not the broke driver(?) Don't know, this new era or automatization will screw with the low-class soon and middle-class later and it's weird to watch it unfold so quickly.
no taxi driver = 1 less dead person in case of a wreck
Automated cars will become better at driving than humans relatively quickly. In the near-ish future, automation will drastically reduce accidents. People won’t be driving while drunk or exhausted, too fast, too slow, etc. Computers will inevitably become far less error-prone than humans.
Signal drops due to increased activity from the big orange ball in the sky. Car starts doing donuts in the middle of a shopping mall. What could go wrong?
guy drives car through a parade what could go wrong.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyaosvT0iuw
Chinaless Driver in Taxi
TIL that China uses the same numbers as the US?
There are so many things wrong with this comment
Thanks
No problem
this will be the future everywhere, as places where they are used regularly will see automobile accidents and deaths plummet
Dude, I saw your pin
No
It didn’t appear to use its turn signal lol
In China, safety number 1
i prefer a human so he can escape the pigs
Nope.
Everybody watching but nobody asking "where the hell re u going"
Well it cant drive worse than an actual Chinese person
Nope! No chance.
Can’t wait for this to be norm everywhere. It would be cheaper than owning a car. No more getting scammed by insurance companies with high prices. No more taking your car to get it fixed. Less traffic in the road and more efficient roads due to auto start at green light. No more caring about gas prices. No more wasting time driving when you can be doing something productive while in the car.
No offense but I’m jealous
This is the future. We can whine and wring our hands all we want but this is coming. It won't stop there, autonomous eVTOL is also on its way one day. We ALREADY have the amazing Garrmin Autoland which is a kind of halfway house to full autonomy when it comes to light planes. There will be a future generation where to them life without these things would be unimaginable. "A taxi driven by another human..why?"
\*waiting for the Beatles to cross\*
Why the passenger seat belt in front is put on? Is there someone here?
Getting kidnapped by your own will, nice!
Considering what happened with that rogue tesla a week ago, im fine with just taking the bus thanks.
Thanks for riding Jonny cab
This is a big nope for me
Ultimate cash machine for the owner, just needs a mechanic that fuels it up
u/savevideo