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How the car is going to buzz into my building, take the elevator, and deliver to my front door is beyond me. Technology is amazing!
You’ll have to tip it first, seeing as it’s wider than it is tall.
But they said I wouldn’t have to tip if they got rid of the humans!
Automated AI powered yeet cannon? The future is now.
Berkeley has had self driving robots deliver food for years. They roll in the sidewalk. When it arrives to your front door, you get a text and go down to the front door. Press a button on the app and it opens the locker door so you can retrieve your order
People thought wall-e was a funny animated movie. Turns out people actually are disgustingly lazy.
I’ve already had several Uber drivers text me and ask me to meet them at the car, so this wouldn’t be much different.
Even if you don’t agree with any of it, thanks for posting the news. That’s interesting.
They’re using entire cars… for food… not a smaller vehicle? Does anyone else see the problem here?
Use 1500 kilos to transport 500 - 1500 grams. Move along now, nothing to see here!
I’d probably order more if it came with no driver to tip. I’m not sure if that a plus or a minus for me.
Just you wait. They’ll offset the tip with a “Driverless vehicle delivery” fee.
If cable, cell, ISPs and companies of that ilk are any hint, we’ll have to pay the upcharge on the items themselves, all of the food delivery company’s fees and surcharges, and then get double-dipped from the driverless car company for those same fees. They’ll also tack on a fee to rent the car while it drives to our homes, another fee for each second it sits waiting for us to go grab the food, a fee for each second of cloud computing time as it updates to the network, a fee for the electricity it uses, and as part of the Eula, we must top off the car’s batteries from our own charging stations thereby incurring that cost as well.
May as well just get pneumatic tubes at this point.
Fuck yeah! Those things are awesome. When I was younger my bank had a drive up window, and another lane with an intercom and a pneumatic tube. I’d use the tube lane even when the window lane was open because I loved watching the capsule go shooting through the tube.
I’m down for Futurama style transport tubes
Is waymo a food delivery service or a car or a what?
Waymo is a company that develops self driving cars (well, not the cars, but the technology). They are focusing on robo-taxis. So like Uber without a driver.
Waymo is a Google company they will eventually make their own cars once they master self driving.
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Because nobody else will drive 15 miles for a $2 dollar order.
Definitely makes sense to invest billions in solving this program that people won’t pay more than a pittance for the service.
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Can we just burn them again?
Going a few extra feet out to get the food is a trade off I’ll make to get the food there fast and safe and presumably cheaper.
This is incredible, it feels like parts of the USA are so advanced.
Here in Sweden we’re going backwards, they even took out self-scanning at a lot of supermarkets due to theft.
In America they just close the whole store instead of adding employees back in
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they even took out self-scanning at a lot of supermarkets due to theft.
That’s awesome! I guess I’m going to start stealing all the time now. I fucking hate self checkout, especially at places where you buy a lot of items.
