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Every robot should have some kind of electronic blinker to let others know they're robots. That way, we can avoid a bunch of bumps and crashes.
Nice try, skynet..
We could always consider reaching out to Harrison Ford for a classic bot chase.
Begun, the robot wars have.
There should be an open communication standard that all robots use to communicate with each other.
And it will only be used for good and nothing nefarious.
How about if we had sixteen different proprietary such protocols instead?
We’d need a seventeenth unifying protocol
Obviously.
Aside from the obvious I, Robot movie allusion, this idea doesn't really work in the real world because robots have to be able to detect the presence and anticipate the actions of non-robots anyway. Unless you're willing to ban all the actual people from the street, which is unreasonable, robot-to-robot communication doesn't actually help you.
Put common channel com devices on all people too. Solved!
Robots can look different to people, if they know where each other are then they csn prioritise a collision with a robot over a human etc.
There should be an open communication standard that all robots use to communicate with each other.
Yes!
And it will only be used for good and nothing nefarious.
Oh no
I see nobody talking about this, but aren't the Waymo(s) trained on data which most likely did not include these robots yet?
It seems like this is just something that'll probably happen a lot whenever something new is introduced on the roads.
Expect reCaptcha to ask you to identify food delivery robots soon.
Wouldn't be surprised tbh.
I don't know about the equipment of Waymo cars, but I would be surprised if they didn't have LIDARs or some other form of distance based environment detection.
And that should be sufficient to implement basic obstacle detection. You don't need to use machine learning if you can use sensors telling you that "something is too close".
The article title is misleading as usual.
The car collided after hitting the brakes, seems there wasn't any real damage. It seems the system is designed to only lessen the impact when it detects the obstacle as non-human. If it would have recognized the robot as human, it would have probably acted differently.
Better to hit the object and lessen the impact than to fully brake/avoid and risk worse.
but aren't the Waymo(s) trained on data which most likely did not include these robots yet?
You can say that about nearly 100% of humans as well.
So I'm finding it hard to find a release date for humans, but I'm fairly sure they predated the invention of self-driving cars.
For example I seem to remember being alive in the 1990s
Well, they should try to avoid any object in the road to be honest. Imagine a new toy comes out that a child is on. Sorry we killed that child l, we didn't train it on that new toy.
Its just an unacceptable answer to be honest.
That is also very true.
It's not a Tesla so I'm sure they are investigating the cause.
We can discuss now who had the right of way.
But can we?
Do robots suddenly have rights?
You call that a smash? Stop sensationalising, come now.
A car gently tapped a thing during a turn and came to a stop.
That was personal, there's definitely some beef between them.
This new season of Robot Wars / Battle Bots is starting strong
video of it on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hazFkED40KI if you don't want to go to reddit through the linked page
Hey, it actually stopped without plowing on very far at all. That's better than what I expected to happen.
Don't really want to go to YouTube either, but thank you.
Yeah everyone knows the best crash videos are on liveleak
Where were you during the robot wars of 2025?