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[–] 56 points 3 months ago (15 children)

Plot twist: they can't navigate entire cities. Some very well maintained streets, maybe.

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  • [–] 39 points 3 months ago (13 children)

    Maybe we should build streets especially for them, then. Except I don't think they'll need the full width of a normal street. With their computer-driven precision they could probably get by with just a couple of narrow strips of metal.

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  • [–] 30 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    And you could probably optimize traffic by increasing the size of the cars to include a lot more seats, or even standing room. Or even connecting multiple cars together for efficiency if there are a lot of other people who want to take the same route.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    you're on to something 🤔 perhaps some type of rail that goes on the road for high speed travel hmm

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Ah yes, trains, the logistics version of "evolve into crab"

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    People always complain about "reinventing the wheel," but it just brings me so much joy when the discussion inevitably ends in rediscovering trains as the ideal mode of transportation.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    No, just one strip of... it's really more of a shelbyville idea

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  • [–] 54 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Can I hire Etsy witches for this?

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  • [–] 36 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    You can hire Etsy witches for WAY more things than you think.

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  • [–] 47 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Wouldn't chalk be faster, cheaper, and more wind-resistant?

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago

    Guess they are demons.

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  • [–] 86 points 3 months ago (17 children)

    Self-driving cars cannot navigate entire cities. No.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (15 children)
  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Yup waymos are all over the place in phx area. Teslas might not do it but that doesn’t mean nobody can. This isn’t even Chinese electric cars with crazy features as well

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

    Phoenix (and LA) are famous for basically not having weather. These things are working well in Richmond, or Boston.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (6 children)

    Your source is waymo's own propaganda (which is NOT about cities in general it's about nine specific American cities), my source against even that much is everyone else seeing them get stuck regularly:

    https://duckduckgo.com/?q=waymo+stuck

    Anyways, I'll leave you to your corporate dick sucking.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    I swear you are implying you have never seen a human get stuck navigating a car for what would seem to be mundane or pointless reasons...

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

    Humans all have different levels of competency, Waymos all have the same level.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    How is this relevant?

    If it is relevant it's a strong premise to add to the argument to why we need to strip people of their licenses, but that's not germaine to the conversion.

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  • [–] -3 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    Dumbass, it means what causes one waymo an accident or blockage, blocks them all. This is not so with drivers. What's more drivers learn immediately.

    Take your anti-human, pro-billionaire bullshit elsewhere. My point was already proven with Waymo its self not being able to tackle cities in general... Which is the fucking topic. Not how much you'll bend over for them.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

    I am not anti human or pro billionaire. Your inferences about me are unfounded. I am calling you out for a lack of functional argument. Your statement "Waymo cannot navigate cities" loads the idea that because there Waymo lacks a human there is no variance in decision making.

    Let's concede, for sake of argument, all Waymo make the same decision every time without fail.

    Let's further suppose a group of persons learned to drive and were told you cannot pull out into the intersection for a left turn. Now you have a group of people who clearly will make the same decision and hold up traffic.

    If there is no one to inform them and in some sense reprogram this, then they will continue to do this ad nauseum.

    Thus, there is no functional difference beyond your pre-loaded bias about Waymo cars and improperly trained human drivers.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago

    Subaru Impreza 1998 would never

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I always wondered why Vampires don't just eat the salt.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago

    Really traditional vampires are super OCD; one of the ways to get rid of them is to spill a big bag of eg. rice in front of them, and they'll spend so long counting every grain that they'll get caught by the rising sun. Salt ought to work as well?

    One grain of salt, two grains of salt. Ah ha ha ha. Three grains of salt...

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  • [–] 21 points 3 months ago

    and chickens

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    TBF I know humans this would work on too.

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    Snail warfare

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    I highly doubt this is true.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Whomst the fuck tried to use a fae as a substitute for a daemon? It's called a daemon engine not a fairy engine, there's a reason we don't use fae and it's shit like this and them just inventing new terms of service. Shoddy craft all around, whoever made this needs to return to Zharr-Naggrund and be made into an Infernal Guard.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    What happens if you draw two yellow line circles around it?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Does popping a cone on the hood still work? I don't live close enough to the airport to try it anymore

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    AI cars are a disaster in the making for urban design and transportation.

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    [–] 20 points 3 months ago

    Magic always beats technology

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago

    dean's impala would never fall for this.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    You know, I'm glad that self driving cars are deciding to be safe rather than sorry when confronted with situations it wasn't trained for, like witchcraft.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Can you do this with sidewalk chalk too?

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    I imagine so, as long as it's solid enough to look like a real road marking.

    That said a web search revealed this was from 2017 so I have no clue if it still works at all.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    The most popular "full self driving car" Tesla only uses cameras for navigating.

    I would bet 500 that this still tricks teslas.

    Fucking before the telsa was even announced there was 100 YouTube videos on how its impossible to do full self driving due to elons stupidity of refusing to add lidar. And like 10+ years ago teslas where supposed to be 2 years away from fsd. Its almost 2027 and we are still 2 years away from full self driving. Weird huh?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    A spider does the same to humans.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    I actually love this

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    So they are like chickens and beetles.

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    [–] 36 points 3 months ago

    You can also put a cone on the hood! (or so I've heard)

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  • [–] 34 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    So you're saying the self driving cars are actually demons?

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    chalk probably works better

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago

    There are people that believe this bullshit?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    I don't know how to switch accounts and fucked up my wife's entire persona she was building by commenting under her account. Instead of deleting the comments when I realised my mistake, I instead just switched accounts and left those comments there for her to find when she woke up. I claim to have planned to go back to delete them, but instead I was just gonna completely forget about them.

    I am so smart 🤓

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