That’s because it’s built to travel on roadways and bike lanes, leaving its fellow sidewalk crawlers in the dust.
This is a pretty concerning detail buried near the end. How safe is it to bikers to be sharing space with these kinds of things? And if they become more common, what stops them from crowding out the space entirely?
You can rest assured corpos will have laws on the books to protect their property. Don't be surprised if this property becomes an extension of their "person" and attempted murder or manslaughter charges are a possibility.
It's around 5 feet tall, 3 feet wide, and 350 pounds... No matter the safety mesures that thing should not be sharing a espace with what could be an 80 pound kid on rollerblades with a heltmet.
If that had been a person who refused orders to leave the scene they would've been manhandled to the ground and arrested at best. Delivery robot was treated with more respect by the police than an actual human.
Next time SWAT has me barricaded in I'm gonna have to remember to just start ordering as much delivery as possible. The humming sound you can't hear but feel in your fillings is the infrasound from an approaching Amazon drone swarm delivering the 1000 lead dildos I Next Half Hour ordered.
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chellewalker@lemmy.ca · 79 pts · 53d
This is a pretty concerning detail buried near the end. How safe is it to bikers to be sharing space with these kinds of things? And if they become more common, what stops them from crowding out the space entirely?
Sculptor9157@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 53d
The same thing that keeps bikers from crowding out multiple lanes when they travel. Think of the robots' safety!
deacon@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 53d
I wonder what the legal ramifications of pushing one over would be
Sculptor9157@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 53d
You can rest assured corpos will have laws on the books to protect their property. Don't be surprised if this property becomes an extension of their "person" and attempted murder or manslaughter charges are a possibility.
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 52d
It'll probably be classified as terrorism before too long.
TediousLength@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 52d
It's around 5 feet tall, 3 feet wide, and 350 pounds... No matter the safety mesures that thing should not be sharing a espace with what could be an 80 pound kid on rollerblades with a heltmet.
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 53d
Shit. Robot's got hustle. Get it little guy. ACAB. Fuck them cops, get that paper.
sundray@lemmus.org · 17 pts · 53d
Shocked the cops didn't light it up for "resisting."
David_Eight@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 53d
Its corporate property, protecting it is the police main job lol
Sculptor9157@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 53d
He knows his rights! Also, he also has legitimate claims to sovereign citizenship.
vithigar@lemmy.ca · 49 pts · 53d
If that had been a person who refused orders to leave the scene they would've been manhandled to the ground and arrested at best. Delivery robot was treated with more respect by the police than an actual human.
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 52d
Amazon has ac for it's equipment but none for the workers. Cruelty is the point.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 52d
"I identify as a delivery robot"
Godric@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 52d
Uh, yeah. Because it's a robot. Not a person. It's limited to robot things, not potentially infinite person things.
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 52d
Thats because the delivery robot is corporate property while people are not (currently).
SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 53d
Next time SWAT has me barricaded in I'm gonna have to remember to just start ordering as much delivery as possible. The humming sound you can't hear but feel in your fillings is the infrasound from an approaching Amazon drone swarm delivering the 1000 lead dildos I Next Half Hour ordered.
braydan@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 53d
Good thing it wasn't dog shaped or the cops would have shot it.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 52d
Boston Dynamics robot cowers in fear
tomiant@piefed.social · 4 pts · 52d
>A huge DoorDash box truck rolled up to take it away, with an employee seen on camera appearing to manually pilot it towards the truck’s rear.
Bake him away, toys!
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 52d
I'm sorry... a what? I've ordered DoorDash several times and never got a delivery robot.
modus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 52d
Have you ever asked them to complete a Turing test?
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 51d
If we're talking about LLMs, that probably wouldn't have even worked.
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 53d
Uncivilized nightmares.