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Delivery robots keep crashing into bus shelters (www.popsci.com)
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Food delivery robots are struggling to steer clear of Chicago’s bus stop shelters. Within just 48 hours, two autonomous couriers from different companies veered off course and collided with shelters shattering glass and alarming nearby residents. These pair of dramatic incidents come amidst brewing tension among community members and lawmakers in Chicago who oppose the robots’ presence. The crashes also come just weeks after one of the manufacturers announced it was integrating a new mapping system trained on “Pokémon Go” data which is designed to improve navigation accuracy.

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[–] 6 points 7 months ago

THEN they NEED to have ultrasonic sensors, activated at .. say .. 1/2-metre intervals, because LIDAR may be blind to float-glass that isn't at a right-angle to it, but SONAR isn't blind to sheet-glass.

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( the things might harm the hearing of animals, hence the limiting it to a chirp-every-1/2-metre idea: minimize noise-pollution that we are "blind" to, see? )

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