“In China, driverless delivery vans have become a total meme, they plow through crumbling roads, fresh concrete, motorcycles, anything. Nothing stops them.”
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Wow seems dangerous and inefficient can’t wait to see them on US streets.
but then who will ice shoot when it plows through them? lol
The nearest person with skin anything darker than ‘never had a tan’, as is custom (or more recently, anyone not cisgendered, heterosexual, and male)
US streets aren’t always great but what’s up with all these open trenches right in the middle of the roads in this video??
In China you can exit from a 12 lane freeway into a creek bed.
The first clip is clearly not somewhere cars should be. The other two… Trenches? Are construction areas clearly. I’m not sure what you mean?
In the first clip there is a tuktuk in the foreground and a passenger car in the background so I don’t know how you got to “clearly somewhere cars should not be.
In clip 4 there’s some pavement but it falls away into a large hole that has filled with water… call it what you will. “Trench” is one word for it.
Clip 1 is very clearly a plaza and pedestrian area, hence the large curb, the cars In the background are in a carpark.
Clip 4 is clearly construction, and it isn’t water, it is wet concrete.
Oh… clip 1 it’s climbing a curb… optical illusion - I thought that was a long ditch cut in the pavement, as for pipework, etc.
We can tell by the username that you know China from experience.
Lost it when the guy kicking it made it go
Get outta here clanker!
Automated cargo delivery is going to bring a new era of piracy. When you can easily trick the vehicle and there are no people in it, it becomes much more tempting to just knock it over and steal what’s inside.
“Fell of the back of a van”'s back baby!
~~ Fell of the back of a van~~
Van fell on his back
In China they have your face details and your phone location. Even if they don’t have that data, there are hidden cameras everywhere following you home.
so there will be camera’s with facial recognition. There’s no cheating in mass surveillance totalitarianism.
Wear a mask?
Isn’t facial recognizition still possible when the face is partly masked? Also, what if they have camera’s right about everywhere, where do you put on the mask without being identified? Or what if they track your phones location? Don’t know how far chinese mass surveillance currently goes, but these seem like real possibilities in the near-future. I am very afraid that modern technology will make resistance to totalitarianism impossible.
I’m certain it’s possible to obscure your face beyond the ability of any machine to recognize it. At that point your enemy is gait analysis, but there are countermeasures for that as well. As for utterly pervasive surveillance that is so redundant and automated that the government can know anything about anyone, anywhere, retroactively…. I don’t know if we are there yet. I’m not going to spend too much energy worrying about the prospects of Chinese pirates.
TIL what gait analysis is. Thank you :)
Driving through that orange stuff was actually impressive.
I kinda wanna watch a bunch of them race through orange stuff
Self driving truck Splatoon
is Donny headed for a visit to
vaChina anytime soon?
Even if you think these are terrible, you have to admire the tenacity.
leaves?
I was in my 40s when I realized that some people never experience fallen leaves in autumn. Snow, sure, I knew snow couldn’t happen everywhere, but it never occurred to me that the same places that never have snow likely also never see the leaves fall from their trees.
Probably grain or something drying out, though I thought that was more on the side of the road rather than right in the middle of it.
Move fast and break things.
It doesnt make that trench on the first try and it just fucken sends it. They like us fr.
This is hilarious! RIP anything ‘handle with care’🤣
How my life is going:
That’s what happens when you don’t pay Johnny cab for the ride. Hell of a day, isn’t it?
Now, that’s cute.
The “vehicle stuck under a big truck” thing happens with human drivers, too. If it’s in the driver’s blind spot, it’s gonna be there a while.
Yeah, you’d hear that scraping. I imagine sound is not used for the vehicle to determine if it should stop or not.
Screaming “STOOOOOOOP” while you’re hanging under a truck will make most drivers stop. Not so much for AI, though
A person hitting me will (usually) stop the car and help me. From what I’m seeing here, of these AI trucks hit you, you’re just fucked
Trucks are loud, and if they don’t hear scraping, they’re not going to hear shouting.
To be clear, I’m not trying to defend bad autonomous vehicles here - just pointing out that the dangers exist with any large vehicle. This is something that happens with trucks, so people should be aware.
*Since you don’t seem to believe it’s possible, here’s a news report of an incident from 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q22sQndSjEA
love the song! https://soundcloud.com/lanlaoskaiisyourgod/0ygnabbfkc7m
/nasal voice/ Me again
one of the funniest things I’ve seen on the road was a big ass truck that had a sticker that said “attention! eggs on board”. i cry lauged so hard. like dude you be careful with it, why are you giving me responsibility
China looked at Tesla fsd and thought how can we make that shitter and more dangerous.
