Robot Standoff
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I had dinner with friends on Sunday night in Bernal Heights a neighborhood in SF with very narrow streets. After dinner we got a Lyft and headed back to where we were staying. They live on a two way street but only one car can pass at a time in the parts of the street where cars are parked on both sides. We get in the car and start off and come up on a car driving toward us that wasn't pulling over. The Lyft driver wasn't pulling over either but as we got a little closer we realized that it was a driverless car with no one in it. The Lyft driver who wasn't to happy about seeing the future was all fuck this I'm not backing up. So we sat there in a standoff for at least a couple of minutes. Finally the driverless car put on it's hazard lights and started backing up to let us by. The Lyft driver said he often sees them doing crazy eights in intersections and has called the police on them. The police told him that it's just something they do from time to time.
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Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: jazfish
It's really happening. That
It's really happening. That had to be odd as hell.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: aiq
The standoff wasfor the bot
The standoff was for the bot car to scan the "meatbags" and report to Bot Central.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: treat island
Eerie and a little scary, I
Eerie and a little scary, I bet.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: GDTRFB
At least it wasn't one these
At least it wasn't one these tin cans! (coming soon to SF 'hoods):
"SF police ‘killer robots’ motion passes"
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/sf-police-killer-robots-would-have-e...
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Mice elf
nothing left to do
nothing left to do
but robot, robot, robot
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: dimethyllovebeam
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Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: jazfish
Three Laws of Robotics"
Three Laws of Robotics"
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
Isaac Asimov must be rolling in his grave..
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: El Nino
>>>The standoff was for the
>>>The standoff was for the bot car to scan the "meatbags" and report to Bot Central.
The strange thing is right before we left their house we were talking about the driverless cars, so pretty sure they were listening to us.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: skyjunk
I have had many standoffs
I have had many standoffs with Robots. Robotron was my game, or Robot Ron as we liked to call it.
I bet it would be easy to steal a driverless car
maybe tempt it with a charging station on flatbed car hauler, and the take off with it once it drives up on the flatbed
would it be a car jacking if there was no one to jack?
seems this would be a thing by now.
seems sure as fuck Ted Cruz would be all over this, fucking it up even further than what it is.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: An organ grinder’s tune
https://www.nytimes.com/2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/30/us/police-robots-san-francisco.html
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: MarkD
"The strange thing is right
"The strange thing is right before we left their house we were talking about the driverless cars, so pretty sure they were listening to us."
Do your friends have Alexa in their home?
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: El Nino
>>>>Do your friends have
>>>>Do your friends have Alexa in their home?
Way worse than that. He is building the database that holds 500,000 peoples complete medical history combined with each persons fully sequenced genome. So I'm sure every industrial spy on the planet has the place bugged.
We're all fucked
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Alan R
San Francisco get all the
San Francisco has a long tradition of weird stuff roaming the streets.