Putting aside all the late stage capitalism going on here, I still can’t get over the fact that Alphabet (Google) spent billions of dollars developing self driving car technology only to arrive at, “Oh shit. Someone left the car door open. What do we do now?”
This shows you just how strong our culture is an influence here. You can leave a door open and cause enough trouble that they need to hire someone else to go manually shut it. I’m willing to bet there are a lot of seemingly innocuous ways to cause friction with these companies. The more people know and exploit them, the better.
Supposedly a salt circle drawn like “no entry” road markings can trap them.
And, as a bonus, any ghosts or demons therein!
That was the coning of waymo cars. It was their version of a salt circle.
At first I think you were jokingly referring to them as demons. Now I realize you’re actually serious…
Supposedly putting a cheapo luggage lock on a door latch requires a coordinated effort involving a locksmith or a tow truck
the revolution IS YOU
Even if this thing was left on a single city block for 8 hours with its door open, the data it collects about nearby cars, Bluetooth devices, phones, WiFi SSIDs, recorded video/audio, etc. makes it worth it for alphabet, I imagine.
When I was a kid my dad would drive forward and slam the brakes to close our van door.
It was really fun until that became the only way that closed the door.
Does it charge extra to the last person that used the Waymo to cover the cost? Because if not, might as well just leave the door open every time, now you’re a job creator.
Just keep the door and you’re creating even more jobs in the door factory.
They have self-driving cars, but self-closing doors is still at least 10-15 years away.
Only because you can’t outsource door closing to the Philippines
I imagine there would be a gigantic list of safety concerns for self-closing doors.
They already exist though? There are a bunch of EVs with servos in their doors. You can still overpower it just like you can an auto closing trunk
edit: and they can also have proximity sensors, i know cadillac does that and their implementation is hyper vigilant, will stop the front door even if you’re next to the pillar
Eh, we already have self closing trunks. As long as they are programmed correctly (not by Tesla) they sense resistance and stop.
I don’t think programming is a problem, auto closing trunks and doors aren’t strong enough. You can test that on any self closing trunk door, it will sound and feel awful but they’re not strong at all.
They absolutely are strong enough to break fingers. The Tesla dumpster is famous for cutting into fingers with the self closing trunk
I’ve seen cars with self-closing doors though. Also I’m not sure where the safety consideration would come in since we have self closing building doors right now and no one seems to get cut in half by those.
Minivans have had self-closing doors for decades bro
You’re right! Tech companies need to stick to the easier problem to solve, self-driving cars! 😆
Hmmm…so it costs Waymo $11.25 if you “forget” to shut the door.
Maybe people will become very forgetful.
Or, upon reflection, just don’t use Waymo, and don’t play into it at all.
If you leave it all the way open, the car just needs to drive a couple feet with decent acceleration to close it.
If you ALMOST close it, but not all the way, that would require some sort of intervention.
Nah, you just speed up then slam on the brakes to open it, then you can close it as you said.
The door can latch but not be completely closed.
Well then you can drive just fine like that.
But the sensor says the door is still open, so the computer won’t.
Need a car to get to the airport, because my city doesn’t have mass transit.
If the only cars in my area are Waymos, do I just skip my flight?
Well, in that case maybe you just forget to shut the door ;)
The cost of doing business is to pay a poor to close a door and keep the wheels of progress spinning.
Give people a dollar discount off their ride if they close the door on the way out.
But charge an extra dollar first
have a friend stalk Waymo’s and give the passenger $5 to leave the door ajar a bit .
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Why are people leaving the doors open in the first place that’s just wild. The super excited to get to work or something I don’t get it.
Wouldn’t the simplest solution be to just ban people who leave the doors open, it’s not that hard to close them.
Probably the doors are in the “unlatched” position rather than wide open.
Maybe some people simply expect an autonomous vehicle to be able to autonomously close its doors in the safest possible way without assistance. Maybe they actually think they’re doing it right by not forcing the doors?
Human driven taxis have mechanically closing passenger doors for decades. It’s a big bug software and a management a failure . This can’t be street legal. Autonomous cabs are billionaires snake oil
Hell, the Mexican colectivo van driver closes the sliding doors on his rattly 20 year old van simply by hard braking.
New rule, if you order one - fail to close the doors properly.
Door dashers certainly will be doing this
Instead of take-a-penny leave-a-penny, close-a-door open-a-door
see? ai does create new jobs. checkmate ai doomers /s
is there no saving this timeline?
The future is clocking in for another 12 hour shift at the “making minor adjustments to the super intelligent AI dick sucking factory” so you can afford to eat the bugs and live in the pod
Its funny because in the US, there are regulations that make it such that, even if they have the capability to close the doors remotely and anti pinch sensors etc, they are not allowed to unless it is done by someone from a device nearby while they hold down the close button.
Oooooo interesting! Is ilthe reasoning the possible accidents?
The reasoning is because of incompetent government
Just accelerate at full power and the doors will close themselves, duh.
Move fast and break things!
Or reverse slightly and stop…
So what’s the point if a future car can’t close itself?
The US has serious FUD w regards to self driving vehicles and legal issues are in the way. Obviously the car could be built to do this safely but there are laws that prohibit this. Remember this is the same country that has reintroduced measles to the masses out of uneducated fear of vaccines.
Of course it is.
Can’t the car just back up half a meter then quickly go forward half a meter?
Now I’m imagining the car shaking off like a wet dog to shut its doors.
Elon’s robots can close the doors.
And lock them, then self immolate
