So at this moment these taxis has drivers, but eventually they will be driverless and be priced "competitively, but premium". They cut out the driver's wagen and charge more?
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I can't wait for someone to invent some tool that allows me to fry the brain of every Waymo that I drive by
This reminds me of the old "we can't exist without copyright theft" defense from AI companies. Okay, well, maybe you shouldn't exist?
Copying is not theft. "Copyright" is actually a privilege, a copy monopoly. Its original length of 10 years was a reasonable compromise between the right to freely share culture and the desire for artists to be able to live off of the incomes of their work. The current "70 years after creator's death" is absurd and oppressive.
The real problem is that AI companies copyright/monopolize the things they copied.
What are you even talking about? The real problem is that the AI companies are not being held accountable for breaking the law. Who cares what the original implementation of copyright law was? Why do AI companies get to play by different rules (hint capitalism)
Breaking laws as a business model is how a lot of companies started, look at Uber and AirBnB for example. They even have a name for this, they call it "disruption".
I really would prefer our laws had teeth and the leadership of Airbnb and uber had had their lives ruined.
Uber was kicked out of Denmark for not driving with a Taxi licence and not following the rules. Now they are back in Denmark by buying an existing taxi company.
Yup, these two illustrate pretty well why those laws are important
Recycle the metals
a cyclist in San Francisco sued the Google-owned company after she was seriously injured when one of the brand’s driverless taxis stopped in a cycle lane and a passenger opened its back door, striking the cyclist
Well, in Germany the cyclists would have the law 100% on their side and win every case.
is “normal practice” for the autonomous vehicles
And if it is done deliberately (repeatedly), then the car's operator is in the area of criminal law.
Well, in Germany the cyclists would have the law 100% on their side and win every case.
Likewise in the Netherlands, because our laws are still sane.
Difference is that in the Netherlands you will barely come near a car when cycling. Germany‘s cycling lanes on the other hand are barely distinguishable from the road.
What do you mean, a few dots of white paint on a four lane road is perfectly fine cycling infrastructure!? ^/s^
In Germany, someone would snap pictures to write a ticket before they even got out of the car and I'm all here for it. Sometimes being petty is exactly what we need.
Not really. Parking in the bike lane is common to avoid blocking the road.
Like cars parking and covering most of the foot path. So they block less of the road, when in reality, most of the time they cause the same kind of blockage (only one car can now pass instead of two) as if they parked fully on the road. But now prams and other “wide” pedestrians needs to go onto the road.
But it shouldn't be
You claim something that is wrong from my lived reality in said country. I never claimed it was good.
But it's true from my lived reality.
Sei die Änderung, die du in der Welt sehen möchtest.
Deine Tatsachenbehauptung ist trotzdem falsch. Und wir sollten uns keine Fantasierealität vorgaukeln.
Wenn es bei dir nicht so ist, solltest du eventuell nicht von dir auf alle schließen.
Aber easy, ich habe ehrlich gesagt sowieso keinen Bock, mich zu streiten. Lassen wir es einfach dabei.
In Spain it woulf anger the other drivers that have parked there... :(
Well, in Germany the cyclists would have the law 100% on their side and win every case.
Law on their side: probably Winning cases: aus Mangel öffentlichen Interesses eingestellt..
Not possible when somebody has been seriously injured.
They make a perfect bike accessory for this problem:
Just like how youtuber "not just bikes" said it would be, cities would be much better improving public transportation than complying with whatever big tech companies tell em to do
I work near a Waymo station and they have ~5 cars per minute just wandering around the parking lot there. They have zero business there. Just driving aimlessly.
I knew this would happen but didn't though it was happening right now, I think if cities or entire countries won't do anything bout it right now then as time passes this cars will much more than 5, also I genuinely think in the future they could program this cars specifically for them to get in a public transport way so it will slow down and more people will go with waymo or whatever
You should set up a webcam and a continuous stream on youtube :-)
LOL there's no internet. But I can film a timelapse.
Especially considering big tech companies are unelected, whereas cities' governments are elected.
cities' governments are elected.
...by big tech (just sometimes (hopefully))
I hope the reply from Europe was rolling on the floor laughing at Waymo as they pointed them back to Murica with their shitty tech
So Waymo is basically saying, get rid of bike lanes or we will kill and maim bicyclists. Or don’t and we’ll just start the killing and maiming.
Jury nullification is still a thing. If someone smashed up some waymo property, find them not guilty.
Is it in the UK? Not sure how their jury system is set up. Fwiw, other western european justice systems use civil law and don't do juries, so it is not a thing there.
They are right in the sense that I expect other cab companies to do the same.
You need to push against the industry, not be fueled by AI hate when an issue is mostly independent.