- 6 hours
You ticket. You wait two weeks. When it isn’t paid, you find the car, impound and immobilise it.
Actually, since all cars of a certain type run the same software, they’re all effectively the same “person” doing the driving, so you’d have grounds to lock them all up at the first infraction. And I bet you could get a judge to agree with that.
- Zwuzelmaus@feddit.orgEnglish8 hours
police will be able to cite autonomous vehicle manufacturers when their cars violate traffic laws.
This is going to annoy google big time!
Not because of the amounts of the fines - they can handle them easily - but because there will be official statistics.
14 hoursIn the recent Santa Monica incident, for example, the Waymo vehicle braked hard before impact — resulting in a “significant reduction in impact speed and severity” that the company said “is a demonstration of the material safety benefit of the Waymo Driver.”
In other words, when our product functions as intended, we expect it to kill some number of children.
Cars cannot be made safe despite what the snake oil salesmen will tell you. The future is not driverless cars, but careless drivers.
- Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.caEnglish12 hours
the future and present, is also never trusting to or listening to a companies claims.
- halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish11 hours
Tech Enthusiasts: Everything in my house is wired to the Internet of Things! I control it all from my smartphone! My smart-house is bluetooth enabled and I can give it voice commands via alexa! I love the future!
Programmers / Engineers: The most recent piece of technology I own is a printer from 2004 and I keep a loaded gun ready to shoot it if it ever makes an unexpected noise.
Security technicians: takes a deep swig of whiskey I wish I had been born in the neolithic.
