If you cross the road in an undesignated area near a self-driving car, you automatically fall into the group of Vulnerable Road Users (VRU), the most problematic group of objects on the road for #autonomous vehicles.
Not sure what to think about this. On one hand seeing a #vehicle going the speed limit and stopping at red lights will be welcomed, but I still feel like we need to move away from personal vehicles as much as possible. These vehicles don’t solve #congestion or deal with #climatechange in any meaningful way. What do you think about #autonomous vehicles?
#Introduction - I'm building #autonomous#communication infrastructure in the #global south and writing a petition to the #IMF#World#Bank in line with the letter by Budhoo (1990), and specifically demanding the IMF/WB restructure according to the original bancor plan proposed by Keynes before it was butchered at Bretton Woods, and #organizing with poor and working people to leverage a general strike big enough to ensure that our petition is not ignored-and that there are consequences if it is.
Gaza is often correctly identified as the world’s largest concentration camp.
Some people object to this on the grounds that Gaza does not resemble a Nazi death camp, because that is what they associate with the term “concentration camp.”
Here’s an example of this sort of mistake (or perhaps deliberate obfuscation):
As such deportation camps here alive now in the USA are just as much #ConcentrationCamps
In my state of #Florida equally the government is working to make concentration camps for the poor and adding "mental health professionals" on staff there
What I smell #eugenics - this is why I'm in great need and many other #disabled and #marginalized groups in the US are in great need
The Navy Yard’s autonomous shuttle is finally on the road!
As far as I know, this shuttle, made by Perrone Robotics, has the first and only autonomous vehicle permit in PA. Current schedule is to allow passengers to ride in Dec 2023.
The shuttle will run in a loop around the low-speed, wide roads of the Navy Yard and the route will not leave the Yard at any point.
Looking at social media rn and I keep seeing articles about: ever larger, ever more-expensive cars, SUVs and trucks out-selling smaller vehicles, rants calling for the abolition of public transport, hate campaigns directed at cyclists, an insistence that driving is the ONLY valid form of transport—
The car industry is panicking. End of fossil fuel burners plus €10,000 for a car-sized battery pack equals end of a viable motoring economy (cheap second-hand cars can't exist in an EV future).
Some years ago, I was told by a tech industry insider that their vision (then) was to create fleets of #AutonomousVehicles that would be available on demand (think of #Uber without the cost of a driver, the car comes to you wherever you are, and you get to drive it), eventually making individual car ownership obsolete in major cities. Their idea was that they would eventually make on-demand #autonomous cars be cheaper to use & upkeep than owning your own car. (No gas, insurance, parking fees, repair costs, etc. If a car dies, just order another and leave the first one off the side of the road for someone else to fix.)
I think making new cars incredibly expensive would likely be part of that plan, pushing people to Uber instead of to own, and changing the mindset and culture of car drivers away from ownership and towards on-demand usage.
So sah das vor einem guten Monat in Austin aus. Eine Gruppe GM Robotaxis blockierten eine Kreuzung und sorgten fuer ein entsprechendes Verkehrschaos.
Diese Woche wurden bereits weitere Zulassungen der Behoerden, zumindest in Kalifornien, pausiert. Jetzt zieht General Motors die Reissleine und stopp vorerst das gesamte Programm!
NEW: California DMV has revoked Cruise's permit to operate driverless vehicles, effective immediately.
California DMV cites an "unreasonable risk to public safety."
Note that Cruise is now expanding into Seattle, DC, Miami, Dallas, and many other cities. Question: If Cruise is too dangerous for California, why is it safe enough for other states?
@arstechnica I'm still on the fence about the idea of #autonomous#train cars. I mean, it's probably easier than autonomous cars, and I do see use for it. However, I'm not convinced the expense of retrofitting every car will be worth it when you could just spend a little more time to move the car with a locomotive instead. It feels like train companies just forgot how to do local deliveries like they used to. Also, it'd be more sustainable if it was powered by overhead catenary, not batteries.
#Driverless Taxis Blocked Ambulance in Fatal Accident, San Francisco Fire Dept. Says
"Jeanine Nicholson, chief of the Fire Department, said that 'seconds matter' in such incidents and the problem was that responders were not able to access to the patient."
I'm now in Norway, a country with one of the lowest crash death rate in the world. During the 2010s crash fatalities fell almost 50%. (info: itf-oecd.org/sites/defaul...).
I see lots of bike lanes, car-free areas, and fast transit -- but not a single self-driving car. Baffling.
The only alternative to capitalism is #communism (a system of collective relations) and this alternative seems to have only materialized in #zapatista#Autonomous
communities in the past 30y and 2 days. Possibly in small pre-industrial communities of hunter-gatherers.
Everywhere else exchange relationships are the system, and before that there was no-economic-system.
The political system is one of a forced inequality (economic, social, political)
Most Americans Wary of Self-Driving Cars as Trust in Tesla Wanes: Study (www.thedrive.com)
Self-driving tech is widely distrusted by the public, and Tesla's huge Autopilot recall and Cruise's scandals don't seem to have helped.