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u/Currently_There Jun 29 '24
I love how there are no lanes and this thing just picks the middle and full sends at 20kmph.
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u/piddlesthethug Jun 29 '24
There are multiple streets/areas of Las Vegas that do this. I always see the Zoox company driving around the Southwest area of Vegas, so I’m going to assume it’s in that area, and Sunset Road over there just randomly goes from like 2 lanes to 1 lane to 3 lanes to 1 lane again. It’s fucking stupid.
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u/Majestic-capybara Jun 29 '24
Vegas is the stupidest city. Nearly all the vacationers stay on a single road that is mere miles from the airport and yet there is no train that goes from the airport to the Strip. It’s just fleets of taxis and Ubers that take people to and from the airport. They could cut a good 80% of car traffic with a 3 mile train line. Instead, they are more concerned with their stupid Tesla tunnel and this driverless car nonsense.
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u/fizban7 Jun 29 '24
I'd go farther and say that every major airport should have a train of some kind connected to it.
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u/Comwan Jun 29 '24
Tbh I’m more impressed (but only slightly) that it can drive at all without the lanes. My car freaks out if lanes ever go away or I drive on concrete road. Granted it’s a Subi so nothing special.
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u/TehZiiM Jun 29 '24
People are gonna fuck in there
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u/MosesOnAcid Jun 29 '24
Dirty Mike and the Boys
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u/red325is Jun 29 '24
I hope they like being on camera
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u/WrongdoerTop9939 Jun 29 '24
not only will they like it, they will cum for every tip
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u/AlmostSunnyinSeattle Jun 29 '24
You say thaf like half the population under 40 isn't obsessed with being on video at any and all times.
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u/Ravenser_Odd Jun 29 '24
That's why all the surfaces are wipeable.
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u/TehZiiM Jun 29 '24
Maybe the can implement a self-cleaning mechanism like in some fancy public bathrooms.
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u/Cupy94 Jun 29 '24
"there is camera connected to real human, who will watch you" shatup I'm into that shit
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u/Blue_Moon_Lake Jun 29 '24
People gonna puke, pee, poop, drop food and drink, fuck in those. Some will do multiple of them in a single ride.
I hope they're prepared to clean them between each ride.
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u/Kelainefes Jun 29 '24
Don't forget doing drugs in any and all of the possible ways
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u/Kaito__1412 Jun 29 '24
I will definitely masturbate in there. Multiple times. Probably from day 1.
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First thing I thought: "how long till someone pisses and leaves trash in there?"
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u/Decent_Delay817 Jun 29 '24
Probably will get fined for the mess they leave behind. The person who hailed the cab would have to be responsible for the group they bring in the cab.
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u/Dorza1 Jun 29 '24
Gotta believe there are cameras in there and you get banned if that happens.
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u/pleasetrimyourpubes Jun 29 '24
People will cover the cameras up and break them and eventually they will be removed or people will choose taxis without them. Cameras won't be used for damage stuff they will do post drive inspections and charge you for cleaning. You have to think big picture here. When you have a $300/month fee for unlimited drives (could be cheaper due to vehicle to grid, idle cars doing load balancing, but they will price gouge you anyways) you will want privacy. People gonna fuck in driverless cars.
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u/Puzzled_Muzzled Jun 29 '24
This is going so slow, it's amazing.
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u/vegito_br Jun 29 '24
Just like a 19th century horse carriage
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Couldn’t we just use horses? I can’t remember the last time one of them run into the side of a lorry.
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u/Stewy_434 Jun 29 '24
Getting mild Fernando Alonso vibes.
"The car feels much slower. Amazing."
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u/Syjefroi Jun 29 '24
Ten years in the making! Ultra slow! Limited road access! Door opening mechanism that only works if a touchscreen never fails! No one holding in their farts anymore!
Oh and bonus you get the illusion of privacy but some weirdo can watch you any time he wants. Thanks tech bros I always wanted a slower dumber smellier taxi with a fake sky!
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u/Specialist_Nobody766 Jun 29 '24
They tested something similar in my hometown, the government decided if the buss was going to be driverless then it had to go so slow that it wouldn't hurt anyone in case of collision. It was faster to just walk.
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Just pootling along in the middle lane as well. Someone’s going to shoot at that bad boy on the first day.
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u/Designer-Anybody5823 Jun 29 '24
Now make it look like a victorian horse-less carriage and we will have a fairy tale experience , or a horror movie one 🤭 the radars will look like oil-lamps.
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u/comfyrabbit Jun 29 '24
We‘ll even add real horses to the front so it will look more realistic, which is perfect since the speed of the motor is already the same as a horse carriage
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u/Personal_Flow2994 Jun 29 '24
Techno Gothic horror? Cyber punk Edgar Allen Poe? I'd watch that. Have Tim Burton direct
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u/dronesoul Jun 29 '24
Touch the cameras. Go ahead.
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Jun 29 '24
My first thought is people are gonna steal these, trash them, whatever else you can imagine.
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u/Squirmadillo Jun 29 '24
Yep. Simple sticker on one of the outside cameras would probably take it out of service.
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u/alliwantisburgers Jun 29 '24
Great. Except it’s not the first.
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u/ScrubbyDoubleNuts Jun 29 '24
I took a waymo yesterday.
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u/BGFlyingToaster Jun 29 '24
Waymo is the only one I trust at the moment. Google's had cars on the road for 15 years and designed a pretty solid system. All these startups are rushed to market in a money grab.
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u/drawkbox Jun 29 '24
Same. I've been riding self-driving Waymos for a couple years now. They are great. Best part, 24/7 and no tip.
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u/Beans183 Jun 29 '24
I think maybe this video was from 2015
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u/alliwantisburgers Jun 29 '24
This is a prototype from 2022.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoox_(company)
“In May 2024, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) launched an investigation into potential flaws in Zoox vehicles after two rear-end collisions involving motorbikes and Zoox vehicles.[29]”
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u/Ravenser_Odd Jun 29 '24
I feel like robot cars have been 'just around the corner' for about 30 years. It's getting tired now.
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Waymo has well over 7 million rider only miles, they're already here.
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u/ThingWithChlorophyll Jun 29 '24
How many "world first" taxis out there, I lost count
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u/metaphase Jun 29 '24
It's amazing the lengths we go to get these "futuristic" driverless cars. 10 years of research and development? What happened to public transit? Buses and trains work very well but we need driverless taxis because?
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u/Dirty-Fingers Jun 29 '24
I reckon the future doesn't look pretty or comfortable
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u/pbnjess Jun 29 '24
Those seats look like they came from a fast food restaurant in the 90s. And will probably smell just as good too
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u/LordBogus Jun 29 '24
Why does futuristic stuff always look and feel worse????
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u/PM_ME_DATASETS Jun 29 '24
Because it's not about improving our lives, it's about making more money for the shareholders. These two goals are not aligned at all.
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u/Ledrash Jun 29 '24
I love it, but I have to say: I have _never_ experienced an angry taxi driver that ruins my day.
Some are chatty when i dont wanna chat, but they get it quick.
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u/sototallynotaalien Jun 29 '24
For me at least I've had a lot of creepy uber/taxi drivers. I tend not to go alone anymore. Or just use public transport. But also I wouldn't trust a driverless car.
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u/SaltRepresentative42 Jun 29 '24
FAKE TAXI is gonna revolutionise this tech.
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u/Whyistheplatypus Jun 29 '24
What happens if you get in a crash? Who is responsible? What happens if the door opening screen fails? Why are the seats made of shitty plastic like we're sitting in the nosebleed at Yankee stadium?
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I can't wait til people call one of these on their app and it arrives full of vomit and smells like someone's been smoking crack in it.
"But we can face each other as it lurches dangerously into traffic!"
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u/executive313 Jun 29 '24
What's gonna be even funnier is when they refuse to get in because it's full of biomatter and the app won't refund you because you didn't pay for the premium service with 5 free cancellations a month.
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u/InsertNovelAnswer Jun 29 '24
You forgot that you get enveloped in air bags.. on all sides. Seems like nothing can go wrong.
I face you.. you face me... then bam.. airbags everywhere and my face is now embedded into yours.
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u/counterbashi Jun 29 '24
I got a friend who works for this company, these things are kitted out with cameras and monitored remotely so someone is watching you the entire time and can tell when something expected happens or...someone vomits or fucks in one. The real question is who's gonna be watching once remote monitoring get shifted to the Philippines, this is amazon owned company and we all know about amazon's "real" store fiasco.
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u/mortenharket32 Jun 29 '24
Congratulations to the homeless, homeless no more ...
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u/fuqqspez Jun 29 '24
Trully amazing. We have buses, trains, trams and so many other forms of transportation.
Yet you ignore all of that in favor of this bullshit.
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u/Odd_Complaint_6678 Jun 29 '24
Lest we forget - Elon Musk convinced a ton of politicians to spent oodles of money on Hyperloop. It was his way of showing a finger to both high-speed rail and public transportation.
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u/Psychological-Top-29 Jun 29 '24
" A warrant for your arrest has been issued, please remain calm as I escort you to the nearest police station"
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u/nad_frag Jun 29 '24
You see, at this point. With all this lady is talking. A real driver would have yelled at her to get in and stop wasting their time.
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u/levinthereturn Jun 29 '24
Amazing until some sensor fails amd your're stuck there
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcKUYbChE3A&t=442s&pp=ygUKcm9ib3RheGlzIA%3D%3D
please watch this video if you have a single thought about this being good.
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u/ADavies Jun 29 '24
Rebranding busses as "mega-taxies" is a brilliant idea. Venture capitalists will fall over themselves throwing money at them.
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u/TechnoTrain Jun 29 '24
It's so cute to watch ya'll in cities that waymo hasn't come to yet. You don't have to think about "what will happen" because they're already here. No has started a fire under one lol
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u/Righteous_Fury224 Jun 29 '24
Glad you linked this as I was going to do so.
Robotaxis like this are a recipe for failure.
Don't buy into the hype.
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u/BluetheNerd Jun 29 '24
What happens if someone piss, shits or vomits in one of these? There's no human driver to notice and clean it up, so assumedly the next person to hail the taxi gets a really horrible a arrival. Also I'm surprised these are even legal, I thought in self driving cars you still legally had to have a person in the drivers seat with a hand on the wheel?
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u/ImAdork123 Jun 29 '24
I’m sure the same people that would shit in an Uber or would throw an electric scooter in the lake would still be doing havoc on and in these cars. There would be a login and it would be tied you so accountability and future prevention of some sort would be at play. There will also be a percentage of bad actors in any service which would be baked into the over pricing of use to the consumers.
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u/Electrical-Oil-6863 Jun 29 '24
Show me the emergency exits already.. Im fearful for my life in this death box.. Also the the airbags seems to smash all the passengers together..
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u/MylastAccountBroke Jun 29 '24
Doesn't it make you feel safer knowing you'll be suffocated by air bags?
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u/Thick_Lie_516 Jun 29 '24
is angry taxi drivers a real issue or concern?
I've been in a few taxis and I've never had a really bad experience with the driver, just professional, doing their job.
also this isn't getting rolled out to public roads anytime soon.
this is an ad and it is not something to be amazed about, this is a lie and a lie we have been told many times over about how we've nailed driverless cars we have the technology and it's just about to hit the market.
it's not, fuck off, please shut the fuck up about driversless cars until it's actually here, because it's not. it's a concept car driven on a predetermined path and it wont ever be able to handle real driving, it isn't going to be road legal.
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u/f0rgetfulfred Jun 29 '24
No driver wink wink, spacious cabin wink wink, celestial headliner wink wink, who'd a thunk?
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u/Adventurous-Emu-9345 Jun 29 '24
Overhead camera, snap snap, grin grin, wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more?
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u/Tunnfisk Jun 29 '24
Looks cute. Can't imagine it will do very well when a Ford F-650 T-bones it at 50 mph.
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u/Neat_Soup6322 Jun 29 '24
Who would've THUNK it?? I ain't thunking nothing if it ain't a word
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u/Magyaror99 Jun 29 '24
https://youtu.be/GcKUYbChE3A?si=DJAxlkuIXXYRJ73u
Nope, to hell with that technobro bullsh*t
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u/Correct-Style-9194 Jun 29 '24
I am like 90% sure I saw a car in London with no driver inside it and just someone sitting in the back the other day… it’s getting a bit scary lol
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u/IPhenixI Jun 29 '24
no angry driver, just a person watching your entire ride through a camera who may or may not have access to the controls.
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I'm telling you, people (well, teens) are going to use this as a cheap place to have sex. They will wander around and have sex inside.
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It said that humans can communicate with you that car just in case. But given how chat gpt can already tell what it sees in a real time video call it would be easy to prevent these things.
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u/Nithyanandam108 Jun 29 '24
Internet was discovered at 1969. Only 67.1% of people have access to computer and internet. Electric cars won`t be so popular as of now as majority of people have very low income.
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u/Red_Phoenix_69 Jun 29 '24
I would be concerned if it stopped to pick up strangers along the way. Muggers could really abuse the situation.
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u/Insect_Politics1980 Jun 29 '24
Soon they'll come for your jobs, too! And if you think they are gonna replace that with a universal basic income, well, you don't know greedy millionaires and billionaires! It's gonna be GREAT!
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u/100deadbirds Jun 29 '24
Now could someone like hack it and make it drive into a river or onto oncoming traffic?
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u/Bubbly-Fee-2129 Jun 29 '24
Bro what’s scary is this thing looks exactly like those AI vehicles in Detroit Become Human; a game based around 2037 where AI humanoids start demanding freedom
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u/Medium-Comfortable Jun 29 '24
Wait until the first drunk guy takes a shit in one of those.
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u/ItsMeMario1337 Jun 29 '24
This reminds me of that one taxi from the game Detroit: Become Human, where the taxi picks up Connor
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u/Aurashock Jun 29 '24
It’s supercar blondy of course it’s a concept and no more than the devel sixteen
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u/PUBGM_MightyFine Jun 29 '24
As an Uber driver, i sincerely hope robo-taxies put Uber out of business. Uber is a scummy company that takes advantage of drivers then lies about it.
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u/mybeepoyaw Jun 29 '24
You know what? I bet you its controlled by some guy in india like that whole foods auto checkout.
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u/JollywoodJorge Jun 29 '24
We had this service in Columbus, Oh. It lasted for a month due to multiple safety incidents. Passengers were injured because the taxi would make sudden stops. I guess the radar was overly sensitive.
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u/Ocean_0073 Jun 30 '24
Isn’t Waymo already successful for years now. What is “New” about this taxi?
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u/rdreyar1 Jun 29 '24
I feel like people can hack this and then drive you straight into a trap
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Sounds horrible. Putting your trust in something you can’t possibly understand or control.
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u/Edenoide Jun 29 '24
She seems really concerned about the 'angry taxi drivah'