Amazon's Zoox Robotaxi Now Giving Rides To Employees On Public Roads In California (cnbc.com) 16
Amazon-owned autonomous vehicle venture Zoox said on Monday that it is now testing its self-driving robotaxis on public roads in California with passengers on board. CNBC reports: The vehicles have no steering wheel or pedals, and they have bidirectional driving capabilities and four-wheel steering, enabling them to change directions without the need to reverse. Zoox executives said the company began the tests after it received approval from the California Department of Motor Vehicles last week.
The permit is not for all public roads in the state. The tests are currently limited to shuttling Zoox employees on a one-mile public route between two office buildings at the company's headquarters in Foster City, California, at speeds up to 35 miles an hour. The company hasn't said how big its test fleet is, but executives have said they have built "dozens" of vehicles, although fewer than 100. Zoox said one of its vehicles completed a test run with employees on board over the weekend.
The permit is not for all public roads in the state. The tests are currently limited to shuttling Zoox employees on a one-mile public route between two office buildings at the company's headquarters in Foster City, California, at speeds up to 35 miles an hour. The company hasn't said how big its test fleet is, but executives have said they have built "dozens" of vehicles, although fewer than 100. Zoox said one of its vehicles completed a test run with employees on board over the weekend.
35 miles an hour can kill someone and no override? (Score:3)
35 miles an hour can kill someone and no local override?
If it get's stuck It needs an remote link?
and just pulling over may not work in all places / there may not be an spot to pull over. Just coming to an stop as well can be bad to.
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(Darwin Award) "And the award for Most Ignorant in a Group goes to...The FOMO Generation, for Ain't Got Time For Details..."
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Autonomous trains (Score:3)
Trains on major rail networks have been capable of going solo since the 90s, and yet they don't.
Some do.
Several cities have fully automatic metro.
Paris is a widely known example (line 4).
Closer to where I live Lausanne has one such (line 2).
But those are completely over-engineered in making them foolproof, and there is still a backup (just one which isn't on premise).
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...Planes can run automatically, and yet there's a pilot and a co-pilot. Related, most plane crashes that are attributed to pilot error aren't what most would call pilot error. The pilot takes over in an emergency situation and has to make drastic recovery maneuvers. If the plane still crashes despite desperate efforts, the way the rules are written, it's considered the pilot's fault because at the time of the accident the pilot controlled the aircraft..
With regards to this particular argument, a trained human is forced to override the automated system that still maintains every capability of making an emergency situation far worse in the air. Automated systems in both the air and the ground right now are capable of navigating in a very basic manner from point A to point B and with far too many assumptions about what cannot go wrong in that journey to be viable as a full and valid primary system.
If the automated system was that good, a pilot would likel
Re: 35 miles an hour can kill someone and no over (Score:2)
It's not a win, but it's certainly a good start.
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And angry men on Fox News will continue telling you those working people are your enemy so that you can carry on being angry at the wrong people.
And you'll keep on believing them.
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No, they'll still be working on America's farms and in the slaughterhouses keeping wages suppressed so that massive corporations can continue to make record profits. And angry men on Fox News will continue telling you those working people are your enemy so that you can carry on being angry at the wrong people. And you'll keep on believing them.
BUT! Remember! If a different-shade-of-brown person lands at LA airport, H1B visa in hand, and goes on to steal not a redneck farmer job, but hipster Silicon Valley job, then that is absolutely scandalous, and said person needs to be immediately booted, and H1B program terminated right away. For his own good of course. Naaah, totally not hypocrisy.
Now please go on making some arguments like "you only want to enforce equal wages, not boot them". If you take away their ability to compete on price, the end
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The H1B visa holders are indeed bought into America to suppress wages, it's the other side of the same coin.
You're angry at the wrong people.
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You seem to be confused about who runs America and why. The H1B visa holders are indeed bought into America to suppress wages, it's the other side of the same coin. You're angry at the wrong people.
Am I? Most Republicans oppose all immigration, both farmhands from Mexico and Silicon Valley-headed H1Bs. At least they're consistent. Most dems are all like "refugees welcome" and "no human is illegal" when it comes to farmhands from Mexico, but "stop H1B NAAOOWW!" - when it's actually THEIR jobs immigrants come after. Yes, that kind of makes you fucking hypocrites.
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The people who run your country don't give a shit about whether you're pro or anti anything, they're going to carry on doing the things that make them the most money.
Your characterisation of democrats is infantile too. No surprises at all really.