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Wapo journalist verifies that robotaxis fail to stop for pedestrians in marked crosswalk 7 out of 10 times. Waymo admitted that it follows "social norms" rather than laws.

The reason is likely to compete with Uber, 🤦

Wapo article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/12/30/waymo-pedestrians-robotaxi-crosswalks/

Cross-posted from: https://mastodon.uno/users/rivoluzioneurbanamobilita/statuses/113746178244368036

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[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 4 points 4 days ago

It is an offense in Japan to not stop if someone is waiting before entering the crosswalk (and technically to progress until they are fully off the entire street, though I've had assholes whip around me for not breaking the law). People do get ticketed for it (though not enough, honestly). I wonder what they would do here.

[-] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Where can I buy a traffic cone shaped rock?

the funniest thing to me, is that this probably isn't even the fault of AI, this is probably the fault of software developers too lazy to actually write any semi decent code that would do a good job of (not) being a nuisance.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 days ago

Most developers take pride in what they do and would love to build in all the best features for launch.

But that's not possible. There's a deadline and a finite budget for programmers. Ipso facto, a finite number of dev hours.

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[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 3 points 5 days ago

I read RoboTaxis as RobotAxis and wondered what a mechanical version of the losers of WW2 had to do with cars

[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Sounds like a good SciFi

[-] DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Anything to keep the car companies stock price up

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl -1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Are the developers Swedish?

[-] MrFappy@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago

Is this site being weird or am I tripping, because I just came in here, and there was an on point comment about being a parent and wiping pee being a part of life, and ended with a solid joke, but, I come back in here and it’s gone with no deleted or anything. It was good and on point enough that I returned to reply…. What is happening? I’m too tired for this confusion!

[-] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 4 points 5 days ago

UI sometimes misplaces comments

[-] frostysauce@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

You're in the wrong thread.

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