Post B5e1IyLTFnZO3IUIYi by ovoao@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #B5dqvX4nTRVfHEsBX6 by dangillmor@mastodon.social
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Google's autonymous taxi company says it won't obey traffic safety laws because its customers want convenience, so screw those bicyclists who don't want to be injured or killed. https://road.cc/news/driverless-taxis-veering-into-cycle-lanes-normal-practice-says-waymo
(DIR) Post #B5drGkcGKQd3LpdylM by FrancoisPrague@mastodon.social
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@dangillmor so autonomous driving being as uncivil as a human driver removes the need for autonomous driving.
(DIR) Post #B5dtzBgxDsQhyV9gQa by drs1969@mstdn.social
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@dangillmor Well they gonna have a great time with London’s traffic cameras and the even more feared traffic wardens. And then London’s cycling community will probably want to have a chew on them as well. Idiots.
(DIR) Post #B5dvFzePLPZJVVXdo0 by renardboy@mastodon.social
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@dangillmor caltrops.
(DIR) Post #B5dwTZkSXskTBGPdom by mastodonmigration@mastodon.online
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@dangillmor They just keep leaning into the "be evil" don't they?
(DIR) Post #B5dxDrb8VsavrS7ik4 by cgudrian@social.tchncs.de
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@dangillmor I guess society is no longer bound to laws either, then? “What a nice autonomous taxi you have there. Would be a shame if anything happened to it…”
(DIR) Post #B5dxPEpiSw9j6pMoqW by Kowalski@chaos.social
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Why we don’t build autonomous walking Robots by our own? They may not be able to respect these self-driving cars. They may not know that a hammer hand has another primary function. But who cares!@dangillmor
(DIR) Post #B5e1IyLTFnZO3IUIYi by ovoao@mastodon.social
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@dangillmorIf I understand correctly, this is just for picking people up and dropping them off. Every normal taxi would also do that.
(DIR) Post #B5e2qVBKI1nXP2IKZ6 by sgail@mastodon.scot
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@dangillmor I did not know Waymo was Google. I keep seeing their propaganda pushed by YouTube, with the remarkably implausible woman saying something like, "Because I have kids and I worry about their safety on the roads I'm really looking forward to autonomous vehicles driving around in Britain".If the 'Sure, Jan' meme was made for anything, it's those 'ads'.
(DIR) Post #B5e3DjcOmT4mq02HgW by nakedgerry@mastodon.social
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@dangillmor @paulk Grief! These things are going to be so unpredictable that they will be lethal and should just be banned.
(DIR) Post #B5e4Gm3mG8ijEVr58q by newint@todon.nl
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@dangillmor Which problem do these self-driving vehicles solve, which issue is so pressing, that we have to dedicate development time and sacrifice existing infrastructure? We don’t need flying taxis and self driving cars. We need separate bicycle lanes, affordable and reliable public transport, clean air, etc. which benefit all, not just some tech companies.
(DIR) Post #B5e6oMbxaDE63kzKq0 by paulk@writing.exchange
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@dangillmor "Terminator". It just looks different, but it's coming.
(DIR) Post #B5eBYel2qXwnTfZEB6 by gogojack@mastodon.social
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@dangillmor The idea that they're just going to run people and cyclists over willy nilly is absurd. I work in the industry (not for Waymo) and dealt with multiple scenarios where pedestrians would jump out in front of our cars on purpose. Is that a stupid thing to do? Yes, but the cars wouldn't hit them. Because it can't. The have collision detection that will stop the car. We even ran a test where we tried to make it hit a child-sized dummy, and it just wouldn't do it.
(DIR) Post #B5eCNaKJ56zIVFLSwS by WanabeSelkie@mastodon.social
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@dangillmor to be fair - I've seen a lot of taxis WITH drivers do this nobody seems to care 🤬
(DIR) Post #B5eDvIGwoSBCJDPZYG by herouelibre@masto.bike
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@dangillmor In perfect accordance with the "[my] rules based" -- not Law based -- order, commonly applied and augmented by State-level politicians these days.
(DIR) Post #B5eFXOXs2RDGir3iXQ by Photo55@mastodon.social
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@dangillmor there might need to be some work on that. I wonder if crosshatching or colouring a section of cycleway and drawing a box in the other lane at suitable points on roads to require stopping Waymos to stop in the box and warning everyone there may be crossings of the bike lane would work. Otherwise it is floating stops etc.
(DIR) Post #B5eFaMkJBWUY0iIFTE by NicelyManifest@mastodon.social
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@dangillmor Ever the manic pursuit of ever more profit blinding the greedy to the plight of the rest of humanity.
(DIR) Post #B5eP1PgxEtagYMhFhI by Elysembarek@mastodon.social
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@dangillmor 👋
(DIR) Post #B5eToM0g7IGf8lVxOC by gezza@mastodon.ie
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@dangillmor Is it legitimate self defense if I carry a log splitter to clear the bike lane?
(DIR) Post #B5eWDAr8vIA7hB183U by kim_balfour@zirk.us
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@dangillmor Laws for thee but not for me is, after all, the ethos of a rapidly encroaching religious techno fascism.
(DIR) Post #B5edU04ixW1MrRL9IO by mausmalone@mastodon.social
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@dangillmor You know, a small rock hammer could easily fit in a jersey pocket.
(DIR) Post #B5eiX5oyYFh7JzGfoG by Asbestos@pnw.zone
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@dangillmorI'm thinking if one makes me stop because it's blocking the Bike lane, I'm going to be going around and standing in front of it for a while, while I gaze at my phone
(DIR) Post #B5eiv9F5U1VWsjx50q by idlebrain@infosec.exchange
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@dangillmor unrelated, but I'm curious what London cabbies will think of this encroachment into their industry.Will Waymo need to pass "The Knowledge" in order to be licensed as a cab in London?
(DIR) Post #B5ekSdOKViSdtjo3Jw by Beachbum@mastodon.sdf.org
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@dangillmor Just wait until it parks on a railroad track and a train is coming.
(DIR) Post #B5eru8NG7nwrUGMidE by huntingdon@mstdn.social
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@dangillmor FFS. Take Waymos off the road for systematically refusing to obey traffic laws.How long would a UK pub owner keep his license, if he insisted on selling beer after hours, "because his customers wanted it?"
(DIR) Post #B5fCfUOO4s7aT8kdd2 by zomg@mastodon.world
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@dangillmor Cool, cool. This is why I carry a rigging knife with a sharp marlinspike. Big rips in tire sidewalls cannot be repaired, apparently
(DIR) Post #B5yxyw2btLGPZTZuIi by gunstick@mastodon.opencloud.lu
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@dangillmor what they don't know is that bicycles don't have license plates. Would be too bad anything happens to that expensive lidar.