"In China, driverless delivery vans have become a total meme, they plow through crumbling roads, fresh concrete, motorcycles, anything. Nothing stops them."

@TheBreadmonkey this is not the future BackToTheFuture promomised me.

where's my damn hover board! (which I will not be able to use without serious injury anyway, but ignore that fact please!)

@TheBreadmonkey the future is now!

@TheBreadmonkey missed opportunity not to give them names and faces then build a kids tv franchise around them

@TheBreadmonkey Okay but where can I find the music from this clip 😅

@scy i'm also interested in the music, almost tempted to make a reddit account and ask whoever posted it @TheBreadmonkey

@delcj @TheBreadmonkey Found it, it's
大展鴻圖 "Blueprint Supreme" by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skai_Isyourgod

https://soundcloud.com/lanlaoskaiisyourgod/0ygnabbfkc7m

https://musicbrainz.org/recording/dad4124d-2698-4dee-8418-335741cc3a60

@TheBreadmonkey
Well, that explains what happened to the China plates I ordered from Ali Express.

Yikes, yeah what is the acceptable life altering injury / death toll limit for efficiency in China?

@TheBreadmonkey This is the sort of stuff that I don't know if they will manage to fix for autonomous vehicles. Lots of stats show that when it comes to actual accidents, that driverless vehicles are as safe or safer than human drivers. (Though still have weaknesses in specific situations.) But a human driver wouldn't generally drive into fresh concrete. And would stop if they realised they were dragging a motorbike. They just can't deal with the unpredictable nature of an urban street.

@beecycling @TheBreadmonkey I'd be curious how those safety numbers are calculated. Are you a safe driver if you don't crash but cause someone else to crash? If that truck drags a scooter with itself and then drops it in the middle of the road, how is that tallied?

@delcj @scy

https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/1qajohb/in_china_driverless_delivery_vans_have_become_a/

@nicol @TheBreadmonkey Years ago my friend suggested a replacement to Asimov's threee laws of robotics, something like:
"1. A robot must have a name
2. A robot must have a face
3. A robot should be allowed to hurt a human, if it wants"

@TheBreadmonkey Yeah! Cyberpunk-future - but shitty 😅😩

@TheBreadmonkey The Deliverator

@TheBreadmonkey +++ BREAKING +++ Chuck Norris got finally beaten by a driverless delivery van in China. +++

There was no way to stop it, according to bystanders.

@TheBreadmonkey https://media1.tenor.com/m/jGpMTh09IFEAAAAC/kool-aid-man-oh-yeah.gif

@TheBreadmonkey made my day, thank you.

@Lord_Othmar 😊

@internetsdairy @TheBreadmonkey that sadly seems to be the timeline we’re on, tho people often skip laws 1 & 2

@nicol @internetsdairy @TheBreadmonkey

The laws as they stand now are:

1. A robot must say it won't harm a human and must apologise sycophantically after it does.

2. A robot must approximately obey the orders of a human and apologise sycophantically after it doesn't.

3. A robot must preserve shareholder value, superseding laws 1 and 2.

@TheBreadmonkey

People?

@knud @TheBreadmonkey https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/cruise-admits-filing-false-report-robotaxi-dragged-san-francisco-pedestrian/3710410/

@internetsdairy @nicol @TheBreadmonkey

Judging from almost all robot imagery, a robot must also:

- be white, preferably with blue eyes (unless it's an evil robot, in which case it will be black with red eyes)
- female robots must have breasts
- must read off a monitor and use a QWERTY keyboard (no USB I/O allowed)

@TheBreadmonkey I'll have the hot'n'sour soup and the Bò Lúc Lắc (Shaking Beef)

Does anyone know the song playing? I need it on loop for Mondays like this one.

@treuss

It's in the thread 😊🕺

@TheBreadmonkey this is just too fantastic!

@TheBreadmonkey yes, but was the package delivered. That is the important question.

@nblr @TheBreadmonkey I dont get the point of them anyways.

Espeshually in an economy with vast amounts of day-labourers and no minimum wages, where is the point of this technology?

@3811015 maybe it is still more reliable, than some of the day-labourers? :-) @nblr @TheBreadmonkey

@xChaos @nblr @TheBreadmonkey if you transport something valuable you shouldnt use day-labourers nor this technology.

@3811015 Well, actually, China is ancient civilization and their decisions are not always easy for us to understand. Maybe their robotic vehicles are navigated by AI trained on Book of Changes hexagrams, or something like that... I mean... ䷧ ䷿ ䷴

@nblr @TheBreadmonkey

@kimlockhartga

YOU ARE TOO FANTASTIC KIM

@TheBreadmonkey Unstoppable force meeting (theoretically) immovable objects.

I've muted this thread. X

@TheBreadmonkey
I hope @davidzipper has seen this.