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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

We could always consider reaching out to Harrison Ford for a classic bot chase.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

Begun, the robot wars have.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How about if we had sixteen different proprietary such protocols instead?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We’d need a seventeenth unifying protocol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Put common channel com devices on all people too. Solved!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Expect reCaptcha to ask you to identify food delivery robots soon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Wouldn't be surprised tbh.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

That is also very true.

It's not a Tesla so I'm sure they are investigating the cause.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

We can discuss now who had the right of way.

But can we?

Do robots suddenly have rights?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

You call that a smash? Stop sensationalising, come now.

A car gently tapped a thing during a turn and came to a stop.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

That was personal, there's definitely some beef between them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

This new season of Robot Wars / Battle Bots is starting strong

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

video of it on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hazFkED40KI if you don't want to go to reddit through the linked page

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Hey, it actually stopped without plowing on very far at all. That's better than what I expected to happen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Don't really want to go to YouTube either, but thank you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah everyone knows the best crash videos are on liveleak

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

Where were you during the robot wars of 2025?

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