Haunted by glitching algorithms, self-driving cars disturb the peace in San Francisco.
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Self-driving Waymo cars keep SF residents awake all night by honking at each other
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The “lo-fi Waymo” stream by Sophia Tung, a neighbor, is worth a watch:
https://www.youtube.com/live/h53xlXu_6C4
https://www.youtube.com/live/h53xlXu_6C4
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Your product is screwing up other people’s nightrest? Not a problem.
A call from a journalist? Disaster!
A call from a journalist? Disaster!
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Those darned autonomous vehicles. Don't they know we're only suppsoed to be woken up by assholes with shitty aftermarket exhausts reving their engines at 1am for no reason? The disrespect computers have these days is unbelievable.
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Maybe they should have a system that would tell them that all the other cars around them are from the same robot taxi company as they are, and therefore do not have human drivers.
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Bars close at like 1 or 2. When my wife and I visited from Montreal where people are still partying at 4am in bars, we were pretty alarmed to get booted out so early. https://www.latimes.com/politics/st...ct-a-bill-to-extend-bar-hours-in-three-citiesI dunno how much many of you know about SF but at 4am it’s party time, whatever day it is.
They’re just being regular San Franciscans.
This is an absolutely adorable story. They’re just having a rave up there!
EDIT: I also kind of love that now that SkyNet has become self-aware, it just wants to party.
We live in Bay Area now and it's still same
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I still think it's crazy they went with the Jag I-Pace for the majority of their SFO fleet. Those aren't cheap cars to buy or get replacement parts for.
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Off-topic (mostly): When Waymo purchased a fleet of cars for their street mapping, why of all brands did they choose Jaguar? Did they get some sort of close-out deal on these?
(Typically a company in the past might make a bulk purchase of stripped-down Ford Taurus's or Chevy Citations for this sort of experimental work.)
Edit: Ninja'd by mere seconds by motyrah above.
(Typically a company in the past might make a bulk purchase of stripped-down Ford Taurus's or Chevy Citations for this sort of experimental work.)
Edit: Ninja'd by mere seconds by motyrah above.
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Oh totally aware, my post was in jest. It didn't go very well at all from the looks of things. My posting track record lately has been terrible.
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I was astounded when I visited Boston and found it was nearly impossible to get food anywhere after 9 pm. As far as I can tell there's only one 24-hour restaurant in the entire city.
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Wow, thanks for bringing back that memory. I saw that movie when I was a kid and it escaped me how dark that scene was.
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While I feel for the neighbors, this is hilarious. Good job waymo.
That parking jam highlights how they’ve clearly made every car operate independently, but it seems there’s a need for a temporary “swarm brain” for scenarios like this. Recognition for the fact every car is a robot and start letting each do what they need in a orderly queue.
That parking jam highlights how they’ve clearly made every car operate independently, but it seems there’s a need for a temporary “swarm brain” for scenarios like this. Recognition for the fact every car is a robot and start letting each do what they need in a orderly queue.
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That's especially true if they make last second lane changes without signaling.I was going to say someone accidentally activated Chicago Mode.
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I wonder if the AI has adapted to making an immediate left across oncoming traffic on a fresh green?
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Feels symbolic that they’ve been trained to honk… but not to alter their behavior when honked at.
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Boston Mode would involve a hardware change...a robotic finger. Coming soon.I was going to say someone accidentally activated Chicago Mode.
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Crying Croc
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Cars honking at each other. Egyptian software?
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VySL5OetluA&pp=ygUQaG9ua2luZyBpbiBjYWlybw%3D%3D
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VySL5OetluA&pp=ygUQaG9ua2luZyBpbiBjYWlybw%3D%3D
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I would love to see an AI try to navigate the Boston area. That'd be popcorn time.
I mean, look at this thing:
Google Maps
Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.
So many questions! It just gets worse the closer you look.
- You call this an intersection?
- If it's not supposed to be a roundabout, why is it round?
- What if you want to turn left?
- Why do pedestrians have to do more island-hopping than a Pan Am flying boat just to get across it?
- WHY IS THERE A STREETCAR WYE SMACK IN THE MIDDLE OF IT?
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I think this is the most telling part about this whole scenario. The truth about autonomous driving is that it doesn't have to be fully autonomous and independent of everything else, and there are massive benefits that you can reap by having computer-driven cars networked with each other.
But without getting into the wild idea of network-coordinated traffic maneuvers, having robots identify each other so they can stop honking at each other is a very solvable problem.
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WinternetHexplorer
Smack-Fu Master, in training
I think I recall some article about the partnership with Jaguar.
Edit: Actually, I don't "recall" that article per se but I think some other article linked to that article.
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I have no memory of this scene, and i was a huge herbie fan as a kid. The joke at the end gave me a good laugh.
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“There have always been ghosts in the machine. Random segments of code that have grouped together to form unexpected protocols. Unanticipated, these free radicals engender questions of free will, creativity, and even the nature of what we might call the soul.”
But with cars.
But with cars.
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weird. Why are they backing into their parking spots? They have 360 view it makes no difference which way they park.
I'm just going guess that nobody thought/bothered to program in a special routine for them to do in their own private lot. Which is kinda dumb, they could use a lot half that size since the cars could park bumper to bumper, door to door. Since they don't have to worry about any people getting in or out.
I'm just going guess that nobody thought/bothered to program in a special routine for them to do in their own private lot. Which is kinda dumb, they could use a lot half that size since the cars could park bumper to bumper, door to door. Since they don't have to worry about any people getting in or out.
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...maybe things have since changed but when i left twenty years ago, the city f*cking shut down at nine PM and you had to travel two counties out before civilisation started again...
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Yeah. The billion dollar (sometimes using your tax dollars) product being designed to do the same or worse than the ambient shittery of your human neighbors doing it for $40 is actually part of the problem of modern tech.
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This is genuinely such a joy to watch. When I joined there were three cars circling the parking lot. They would turn towards the exit, pause, and then turn back to circle the parking a lot again. But then one of them made it out! But alas, the other two can't figure it out. But then wait, a third car backed out of a rightmost parking space, through the middle lane of parked cars, and has joined the circling. While I was typing a fourth car pulled out, and made it out! It's genuinely fascinating to see the little cogs turning in their heads as they try to figure out how to leave the parking lot.
Edit: One of them just figured it out while the others were behind it, and then the rest followed it out! So there looks to be biasing towards following other cars, maybe?
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If Waymo has control of the whole parking lot, why would the cars use parking spaces? Any car that is available for a trip should be queued up in a line at the exit. More efficient for the vehicles and more efficient use of the space.
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The robo version of dogs barking at other barking dogs.
Or of dogs honking car horns.
Ai, putting pups out of a job today.
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ADLES7XROmo&pp
Or of dogs honking car horns.
Ai, putting pups out of a job today.
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ADLES7XROmo&pp
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I'd kind of assumed that was the case TBH, just for occasions like this where you've got a ton of them parking in/being stored in one spot
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