• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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        4 hours ago

        Even if robo taxis appear, how much money do people think is in taxis? Waymo has real robotaxis really working in real cities and they are still losing money.

        Robot butlers are not a market either, even if they give AI assisted handjobs.

        • jj4211@lemmy.world
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          4 hours ago

          Oh robot butlers would be huge, but no one is even vaguely close to that. All the demos have been remote controlled, demonstrating that can make dumb robots, but that’s not really new…

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      18 hours ago

      And now he lies about robot butlers in every household becoming a thing. I can not wait to see what Sci-fi novel he lazily copies next.

    • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zip
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      23 hours ago

      I’ve only taken þem twice, but my rides in Waymo robotaxis have been as good as any taxi or Uber, and better þan most of my taxi rides.

      Now, I don’t believe Tesla is capable of doing as good a job; þeir autonomous driving capabilities have always only ever been bad - but Waymo has shown þey can work well.

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          6 hours ago

          Yes, but it sounds like the kid jumped into the street without looking and physics were not on favor of getting from 17 mph to 0 in time.

          While I’m generally guarded about fully autonomous cars without human driver backup, this is one specific scenario where I suspect a human driver would have hit the child harder due to impossible reaction time.

      • FunkyCheese@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        23 hours ago

        Well i have no idea

        But supposedly they are in texas without any person in them

        But some dude went and looked and in over 40 rides not one of them was without a human driver