2026-09-05 23:55 UTC
Replies (14)
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@otacon239@lemmy.world 2026-09-06 00:49
Oh awesome. They don’t have steering or pedals so when the cloud service fails in 5 years, the entire car will be complete e-waste.
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@athatet@lemmy.zip 2026-09-06 03:47
You just know imma be pulling up in front of these things and slowing waaay down.
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@IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 2026-09-06 00:21
The fuck… It’s for two people?
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@AgentSeven@lemmy.zip 2026-09-06 05:22
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@godsammitdam@lemmy.zip 2026-09-06 05:39
Still looks right out of Omicron: The Nomad Soul.
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@Little1Lost@gehirneimer.de 2026-09-06 05:52
they look like they are perfect for stickers
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@zeppo@lemmy.world 2026-09-05 23:58
Shouldn’t they have investigated that before it was allowed to operate?
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@wuffah@lemmy.world 2026-09-06 00:35
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is updating vehicle standards to make it easier and faster for driverless cars to deploy on public roads. It’s currently tweaking eight rules, including those requiring car parts that driverless cars don’t really need: brake pedals, windshield wipers, and rearview mirrors. But for now, years-old standards remain in place. Beyond private companies using tax dollars to manage their special regulatory environment, privatize and monetize public roads, and test their unfinished and unregulated products on citizens, I expect these to be fully-equipped roving surveillance and oppression machines: Each car can be covertly equipped with a suite of LPR or facial recognition cameras, sensors, and signals intelligence equipment. Autonomous cars can patrol and surveil large areas to gather intelligence while acting as innocuous taxis. Journalists, brown people, or pregnant woman making the mistake of entering one of these could simply be recognized and driven to a “detention” center for arrest. Vehicles can autonomously work in tandem to hunt down and assault other vehicles, or serve as transport for domestic military operations, or blockade roads. Service can be selectively denied to certain areas or social groups to curtail and manage movement during protests or events. I mean, just use your imagination as to how an authoritarian federal government could collude with a Fascist tech CEO to leverage a large autonomous robo-taxi fleet set upon the population:
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@Insayn@reddthat.com 2026-09-06 08:34
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@SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 2026-09-06 20:39
whether it meets federal safety standards. I’m just gonna throw out a wild guess: NO.
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@ulterno@programming.dev 2026-09-07 04:20
has been deployed … already under investigation. Is “already” really the word to use. Don’t vehicles need the investigation being done before getting on the road? I’d say the investigation started a bit too late.
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@qevlarr@lemmy.world 2026-09-07 05:10
Vehicles don’t have to be tested before going on the road? Do they just issue license plates to any new car model?
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@M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2026-09-07 05:43
I would get in a jonhy cab way before one of these.
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@W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 2026-09-07 06:13
I saw one speeding (10 over the limit) on the Interstate in Kansas City. Had a California plate, but I’m assuming it came from Austin? No fucking way, I’m getting into one of those death traps and then letting it drive me across country.