Waymo announced Saturday night…
…that the Google-owned robotaxi company would suspend rides in San Francisco after riders reported vehicles causing traffic jams and … well, kinda just throwing their hands (wheels?) in the air.
“We have temporarily suspended our ride-hailing services given the broad power outage in San Francisco,” wrote Suzanne Philion, a company spokesperson, a little after 7 p.m., reports Mission Local. “We are focused on keeping our riders safe and ensuring emergency personnel have the clear access they need to do their work.”
Waymos use an advanced array of LiDAR sensors to navigate roads, using the mapped images to heeld at pedestrians, work around traffic lights, etc.; a collection of cameras also offers input for the onboard AI software to operate and “solve” traffic problems and operate; without proper input or cues, Waymo cars effectively “brick” when they doesn’t know what to do next — as was evident earlier this year when Waymos got stuck behind fireworks and left listless after dozens were summoned to a dead-end street.
Like it or not, driverless cars are here to stay.
They’re all using battery cars, and as we know that’s problematic in cold weather places.
The other aspects of winter such as snow storms and slippery roads are hurdles as well.
But they’re inevitable within Canadian metropolitan areas, even places (Ottawa) filled with car-hating bureaucrats.
“They doesn’t”
L – “Artificial Intelligence = no one is responsible for anything, but trust it, with everything you value dearly.” Posting that on the outside, the inside and on every taxi receipt should be mandatory.
Full disclosure of facts material to the contract is like informed consent, a requirement in a valid contract.
Waymo or Lessmo or No Way-mo?
Based on my experience there have been driverless cars for years.
Or, just “listening to Lite96 and I’m in my own little world.”
That was from the 1990’s. I encountered that woman on the Deerfoot constantly.
Steve
Amen!
PG&E has systematically allowed their infrastructure to rot for decades and decades … because no CEO was ever paid a bonus for doing the mundane … the necessary. Then, decades of DEI hiring has made PG&E maintenance crews look like Maduro’s communist replacement hires to operate American-built oil infrastructure.
The unraveling of our modern lifestyle and infrastructure is JUST beginning. It’s gonna get worse. A LOT worse.
Anybody who thinks central computer control of anything is a good idea has rocks in their head. Nobody seems to consider the single point of failure concept which could bring modern society into the stone age in a few short days…..and consider if it is done deliberately by a foreign power.
Massive power outage. Lights didn’t work, and there were no signs on the intersections. When confronted with unplanned circumstances computers freeze.
There is absolutely no way these things can be hacked. So, you can feel confident as you put life insurance on the various people you despise in your life that when they get mashed within moments of the insurance vesting that not a crumb of suspicion will fall on you. Talk to your undocumented insurance provider for details. Tell them Fenris sent you.
I come here for the good advice.
My advice is that you not come here for advice.
Lol
Well Kate … KM and others should have taken my advice to BUY ThE DIP … aggressively … as it was a purely fabricated sell-off to make Trump look bad. I’ve never enjoyed an easier, more obvious BUY signal in my entire investing life.
Fenris… Will I need to speak Somali or a Cushitic language when making arrangements with my undocumented, refugee, insurance broker? Will I need to obtain multiple aliases first?