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03-19-2021, 09:00 AM #1
WOULD YOU USE A DRIVERLESS TAXI SERVICE?
Just saw a segment on the news about a company - https://waymo.com/, that is testing driverless vehicles in Chandler, AZ. Kind of freaked me out watching the reporter get into a driverless vehicle that pulled up to the curb and picked him up.
Not exactly sure of the tech that's even involved in stopping right next to someone who just hailed one of these vehicles. I'm not sure I would want to get in one of those vehicles. For sure my hear rate would go up a notch or two!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hqTnmn51Fg"We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully." - Randy Pausch
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03-19-2021, 09:18 AM #2
Why give the googs money that someone is trying to feed their family with? Hard no. [until some point when they have eliminated all of the people from this job]
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03-19-2021, 09:34 AM #3
Those things are literally going to become little shit boxes. People can be pretty gross if not supervised. Piss, shit and garbage.
Plus, if I was bored, it would be fun to fuck with them by either driving or even walking in front of them.
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03-19-2021, 09:36 AM #4
All driving jobs (cabbies, truck drivers, etc) are not long for this world. Now is the time to figure out what we are going to do with the 3.5 million truckers that will be next to coal miners in line for their unemployment benefits in the next 15-20 years. The tech is here and is coming rapidly.
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03-19-2021, 09:38 AM #5
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03-19-2021, 09:39 AM #6
Like that camera will last long.
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03-19-2021, 09:42 AM #7
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03-19-2021, 09:43 AM #8
I would.
Also - welcome to, like, 3 years ago.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-w...-idUSKBN1O41M2
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03-19-2021, 09:45 AM #9
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03-19-2021, 09:46 AM #10
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03-19-2021, 09:47 AM #11
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03-19-2021, 09:47 AM #12?
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Can't wait to see a traffic jam. One person in the back seat of driverless cars. Different types of cars for different classes of people
Own your fail. ~Jer~
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03-19-2021, 09:48 AM #13
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03-19-2021, 09:53 AM #14
How you gonna get to the ski mountain?
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03-19-2021, 10:04 AM #15www.apriliaforum.com
"If the road You followed brought you to this,of what use was the road"?
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03-19-2021, 10:12 AM #16
Hell no. JohnnyCab will get you killed.
The driverless Semi trucks these guys are working with that sound equally scary.Move upside and let the man go through...
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03-19-2021, 10:13 AM #17www.apriliaforum.com
"If the road You followed brought you to this,of what use was the road"?
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03-19-2021, 10:35 AM #18
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03-19-2021, 11:52 AM #19
Oh, and you too. And your illegitimate offspring.
The Ford F150 has been our best selling vehicle for, what, two decades, maybe more? Then there's the zillions of giant SUVs being used to commute to cubes and shop at Whole Foods. And you really expect all of those people to welcome robot shit cars with open arms?
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03-19-2021, 12:00 PM #20
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03-19-2021, 12:25 PM #21
Agree with Benny. Never in our lifetime will you see a semi rolling down the interstate without a human aboard. Driving in the real world is not a robotic activity.
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03-19-2021, 12:26 PM #22
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03-19-2021, 12:29 PM #23
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03-19-2021, 12:31 PM #24
This thread is like the "Benny curmudgeon bat signal", glad to see it didn't disappoint.
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"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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03-19-2021, 12:36 PM #25
There's chronic driver shortages in the trucking world. But pay enough money and you can get drivers. It was an interesting phenomenon to watch unfold.
Lots of American good old boys, and yes, a few girls too, driving big rigs all the way up and through the 80's. Then a bunch of Soviet satellite country folks immigrated to the USA. Then you started seeing Poles, Ukranians, some Latvians driving big rigs in the '90's. Down in Cali, lots of South American immigrants driving. As I left the industry it was lots and lots of Bangladeshi and Ethiopians. Now, it's a big ethnic melting pot of drivers from all over the world. Pretty scary to see and try and converse with them, as there English is so bad, there's no way they can pass the CDL examines. So, they have someone take the test for them.
But the big class 8 regional and national long haul trucking outfits want to get out from under pesky and finnicky human drivers. They get sick. They die. They complain about, pay, HOS and working conditions. Who needs all that aggravation?
It might take a few more years than people forecast to go driverless in the trucking world, but it will get here, later rather than sooner. Just my .02 cents."We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully." - Randy Pausch
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