Google's antonymous taxi company says it won't obey traffic safety laws because its customers want convenience, so screw those bicyclists who don't want to be injured or killed.

[dangillmor@mastodon.social]

Google's antonymous taxi company says it won't obey traffic safety laws because its customers want convenience, so screw those bicyclists who don't want to be injured or killed.

https://road.cc/news/driverless-taxis-veering-into-cycle-lanes-normal-practice-says-waymo

[francoisprague@mastodon.social]

@dangillmor so autonomous driving being as uncivil as a human driver removes the need for autonomous driving.

[cascheranno@hachyderm.io]

@dangillmor ah, because ‘the system’s programming supersedes a law’ is a widely-recognized and legitimate legal defense.

[hadewych@mastodon.nl]

@dangillmor we wisten toch al dat ict boven de wet staat?

[drs1969@mstdn.social]

@dangillmor Well they gonna have a great time with London’s traffic cameras and the even more feared traffic wardens. And then London’s cycling community will probably want to have a chew on them as well.

Idiots.

[toriver@mas.to]

@cascheranno @dangillmor The «code is law» bros from the crypto scene have moved over to the autonomous industry?

[drewtowler@mas.to]

@dangillmor Expecting me not to stick a knife into a waymo tyre is just too high a bar.

[renardboy@mastodon.social]

@dangillmor caltrops.

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@toriver @cascheranno @dangillmor

They were always there

[yetzt@social.yetzt.me]

@dangillmor antonymous? are they meaning the opposite of what they say?

[mastodonmigration@mastodon.online]

@dangillmor

They just keep leaning into the "be evil" don't they?

[jerrej@mastodon.social]

@yetzt @dangillmor

waymo - noun from the verb "to waymow", coined from "to lawn-mow", but applied to road usage. Ex.: "His ride then waymowed across the bike lane to take a legal turn on red, cannoning directly into two crossing pedestrians."

[cgudrian@social.tchncs.de]

@dangillmor I guess society is no longer bound to laws either, then? “What a nice autonomous taxi you have there. Would be a shame if anything happened to it…”

[kowalski@chaos.social]

Why we don’t build autonomous walking Robots by our own? They may not be able to respect these self-driving cars. They may not know that a hammer hand has another primary function. But who cares!

@dangillmor

[ovoao@mastodon.social]

@dangillmor

If I understand correctly, this is just for picking people up and dropping them off. Every normal taxi would also do that.

[fenixmaster@mastodon.social]

@dangillmor Google shouldn’t put it like that; otherwise, their cars will end up being flipped upside down by an angry member of the public wielding a shovel.

[fenixmaster@mastodon.social]

@dangillmor The tires, it is always the tires, the weakest point of a car.

[sgail@mastodon.scot]

@yetzt @dangillmor Hah. I was looking at it and trying to figure it out. I got as far as "of the other name" or "of the opposing name".

Ans then I decided to stop because I was afraid of generating a mild conspiracy theory.

[sgail@mastodon.scot]

@dangillmor I did not know Waymo was Google. I keep seeing their propaganda pushed by YouTube, with the remarkably implausible woman saying something like, "Because I have kids and I worry about their safety on the roads I'm really looking forward to autonomous vehicles driving around in Britain".

If the 'Sure, Jan' meme was made for anything, it's those 'ads'.

[nakedgerry@mastodon.social]

@dangillmor @paulk Grief! These things are going to be so unpredictable that they will be lethal and should just be banned.