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Robotaxi regulator, the California Public Utilities Commission, after hours of testimony from supporters and opponents, voted on Thursday to allow GM’s Cruise and Alphabet’s Waymo to charge riders for driverless robotaxi service, day and night, anywhere in San Francisco, with no cap on fleet sizes. They can now commence full commercialization of robotaxis in San Francisco.

We’ve been seeing them everywhere in San Francisco: Fully autonomous vehicles (AVs) from Cruise and Waymo with no driver and one or two people in the back, and vehicles with no one in them at all. They’re generally well-behaved. They smoothly roll up to a stop sign, come to a complete stop, stay there for a couple of seconds, and then softly accelerate away. They stop when the light turns yellow and don’t floor the accelerator to get through the intersection on dark-yellow or whatever. And they don’t do donuts in intersections.

 
After a fatality or two, non-computerized cars and pedestrians will be banned from the streets.

After a crash or two, the PUC will order a 35-mph speed limit on them.

And that will be the only way to travel. IF the government LETS you.
 
They have a test fleet in downtown Miami and they suck. The cars are constantly stopping for no reason creating problems for human drivers.
 
nickndfl said:
They have a test fleet in downtown Miami and they suck. The cars are constantly stopping for no reason creating problems for human drivers.
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Yup.

Ban human-operated cars and trucks. And bicycles.

And FORCE the sheeple INTO these hellscape robocarriages.
 
Nearly everywhere on earth, when you’re stuck in traffic, you’re still surrounded by the usual sea of heads attached to shoulders attached to arms attached to steering wheels. But in a tiny handful of places—in Los Angeles, Phoenix, San Francisco, and Wuhan, China—you can find yourself flanked by taxis with no one in the drivers’ seats, picking up passengers, unsupervised by any human. And if you live in one of those cities, the sight probably doesn’t even prompt a double-take anymore. It’s like the future is suspended between those who’ve never encountered it—and those who are already a little blind to it.

Get in, Loser—We’re Chasing a Waymo Into the Future

Tailing a robotaxi for hours and hours is weird. And revelatory. And jealousy-inducing. But a driverless world is coming for all of us. So close the door and buckle up.
www.wired.com
 

Self-Driving Cars Are Having a Moment. You Just Have to Be in the Right Place​

When I mention self-driving cars to someone outside the tech bubble that is the San Francisco Bay Area, they'll often ask, "Do you really think they'll become a reality?" To which I respond, "They already are."

Waymo, for instance, operates a 24/7 robotaxi operation in parts of the Bay Area, as well as a handful of other cities. The autonomous vehicles are practically everywhere you look here, provoking slack-jawed tourists to pull out their phones and take videos. Personally, hailing a robotaxi to run errands or meet up with friends has become so routine that I no longer bat an eye.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/new...S&cvid=8cd99247130a42cb8cf7f17861225491&ei=41
 
Edited out the old post due to it being behind a "sigh in" site and replaced it with a normal vid. Exactly the same.

Waymo Hitting Delivery Robot in Los Angeles​



Original video posted here: / food_delivery_robot_hit_by_waymo
 
When the gov comes after me cos I’m no longer considered safe to drive and takes my car away , I am hoping that I can buy an autonomous car so I can continue to live out in the sticks as independently as possible.
I kinda like the idea of being dropped off and ambling downstream to be picked up after a generally downhill walk …..

I guess we need a few more years for the tech to be fully worked out and I’m still wondering how they will resolve who goes back when vehicles meet in single track country lanes and lines build up, with some vehicles towing trailers
 
Just because we (they!) CAN do something, doesn't mean we SHOULD.

Food delivery robots are a cute idea, but not practical. Not the least of which is, ACCOUNTABILITY. Someone grabs the robot, maybe for laughs, and beats open its chamber hot-box to take what's in it...it's a loss to Gee-Whiz Burgers. They're out an order; a customer; an expensive motorized toy. Lots of paperwork and meeting with loss-prevention types. A courier, on the other hand, first, is not going to be such an idiot-magnet; and if he IS accousted, he can REPORT what happened.

If a customer complains, Boss can turn on him and either train him in his errors, or fire him.

Self-driving cars: The ideal thing for the autistic spawn of helicopter parents, who is afraid of people, unable to multitask, as in drive a car in traffic; who cannot hold a job that pays well enough to own a car and who is too socially inept to even hail a taxi. The city bus is a terror for him; but computers are the source of his pleasures (OnlyFans and PornHub). So, SURE...let the computer drive him. He can sit in the back, thumb in mouth, in palpable fear with waves of brain-stem rage.

I compare that to when us mid-late Baby Boomers were kids. We couldn't WAIT to hit the road. I was on the road, with a bicycle, from age 5. Rupp mini-bikes were the rage when I was around ten; and Honda made its Trail 70, which had a real transmission. A friend had one, bought used. It could do 50 MPH!

Then, the trials and travails of Driver Ed, and the discovery that it would COST - insurance - just to be allowed to drive. I didn't get a car until I got a full time job after high school, but several of my friends were faster at it. One friend of my older brother, got his first car - a 1965 Mustang - while in his senior year. His father loaned him the money because the Mustang was cheap. Times they do change.

No, I wouldn't want to join the Playpen Generation and be transported by self-driving cars. When I can no longer afford a car...if I have to move to where I can't walk to the grocery store, as I can right now...if that's the case, I'll travel Uber. Since I can't call a cab, anymore...here, as well as in my sort-of-hometown Cleveland, Uber killed off Yellow Cab and similar big taxicab companies.
 
Now I understand why the libtards were so frantic to give the invaders CDLs and put them into trucks.

Because they KNEW they'd fcuk things up so badly, even Tesla-Autopilot-levels of autonomous-driving safety would seem an improvement.
 

Operator Teaches an Excavator to Dig a Trench - Then it Does it Autonomously​

May 8, 2026
Equipment World serves up weekly videos on the latest in construction equipment, work trucks and pickup trucks—everything contractors need to get their work done. Subscribe and visit us at equipmentworld.com!
In This Video:
00:00 - Operator Augmented Machine Control
03:30 - Hitachi ZX135US-7 Excavator Digs a Trench Autonomously

7:07
 
Why not? They're one of two epicenters for NO NAME GIVEN Real-ID CDLs issued to a hundred-thousand Instant Democrats.

Obviously, Zorro Fox Gibbon.

So, for "consideration" (i.e. graft) they'll make "history" and "progress" and allow the same stupid programs that crash Teslas into trains, to move freight on public roadways.

Because the Globalists don't want to pay wages for real workers. And because the money-changers and the coders who make their chaos possible (in all fields) have no respect for other types of work or those who do those tasks. Anyone who's driven a truck knows it's actually a lot more complex and demanding, than pontificating from your office in Davos or moving digits on computer accounts in Manhattan.
 
Robotaxis coming to London pose threat to cabbies who memorize 25,000 streets to earn licenses

May 17, 2026
London black cab drivers, who are required to memorize thousands of streets to get their license, are being tested in a new way. Several companies are trying to bring robotaxis to the city's streets.

13:17
 

IMO Adopts First-Ever Global Rules for Autonomous Ships

The International Maritime Organization has adopted the world’s first international framework governing autonomous commercial ships, marking a major milestone in shipping’s push toward remotely operated and fully autonomous vessels. The new non-mandatory...
gcaptain.com
 
I guess we have to find out the hard way, how insane these ideas...drive-by-wire and VLCCs navigated by precarious sat links.

The death tolls and environmental damage on the oceans, are gonna be EPIC.
 
It can work, there, in controlled environments.

ASSUMING the autonomous bots can work jammed fifth wheels; flat tires on trailers brought in; can plug in lights, and hook up the air-line glad-hand connectors.

I'd love to see it. I'd also love to see the bill for that development. They can hire a lot of lot porters for what that bill will be.
 

PepsiCo deploys self-driving trucks in Texas, Arizona, Arkansas​

Jun 9, 2026
PepsiCo is launching a fleet of autonomous vehicles that will make deliveries in Texas, Arizona and Arkansas. Wall Street Journal reporter Esther Fung joins CBS News to discuss her ride-along.

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It's gonna have a bad ending...an epic bad ending...

All this because the midwit Elites are so ignorant of economics, they don't want to spend any money on wages to produce their (mostly, worthless) products. Machinery to increase productivity, I understand. Machinery that is to take the place of vital human analog inputs, in judgment, priorities, safety, flexibility and options, and other value-focused choices, such as prioritizing instructions, public safety and how to minimize risk of death and injury...things machines clearly can NOT do...this is just catering to an economically-ignorant fetish they have come to, about hoarding "all the money."

People are gonna die from this. AND, as it unfolds, with no support beyond banks, eventually government is gonna seize control or take away this franchise to make and promote worthless crap like nutrition-free drinks, without even the saving grace of a large payroll.
 

GAO Report to Congress on the Navy’s Robotic Autonomous Systems​


The following is the June 15, 2026, Government Accountability Office report to Congress on Robotic Autonomous Systems: Navy Needs to Address Leadership and Organizational Challenges to Meet Urgent Needs. The report was given to the Senate Armed Services Committee and the House Armed Services Committee.

From the Report​

What GAO found

Recent conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East prove that robotic and autonomous systems (RAS) are disrupting naval warfare and challenging traditional naval superiority. To provide more adaptable, dispersed operations, the Navy intends to shift away from its World War II-era operating model, which was based on closely knit battle groups comprised of several traditional platforms, such as planes, ships and submarines.

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Idiots.

Those things...are not safe (Tesla "autopilot" and its repeated decapitation results, prove that) - not safe around human operators, and not safe with HazMat.

Someone's gonna say "You can't stop progress!!" and, very well - but you CAN stop reckless risks, and assess the COST of needed protections against "progress."

These things need dedicated roadways. CLOSED to other traffic.

AND NOT PAID BY CIVILIANS WHOSE JOBS ARE BEING STOLEN and whose lives are being endangered...not-involved citizens who were just fine with normal, human-operated trucks in their midst.

So. Have Musk and the other tech deviates BUILD THEIR ROAD. Hey, now it's not looking so cost-effective, is it?

In fact...it would almost be cheaper to...I dunno...maybe buy part of Warren Buffet's railroad empire...buy a few major stretches of track, and automate THAT.

OMFG...changes the whole picture, doesn't it.

But of course the (useless) rail unions would PRO-test...and we know, Goonions are SO much moar important than un-elevated citizen-subjects.

So we're gonna rush madcap into this failure, which - as we're seeing - is gonna increase the hostility the ignorant unwashed have for...not homosexual pedo Tech Bro's, but for CAPITALISM.

Which is something ELSE the Tech Bro's crave. Because they want Marxism, too...they think they'll be on the top rung of the New Whirled Odor.
 

Hyundai robot passes world-first shipboard driving test - Splash247

Hyundai Motor and Kia’s mobile robot platform MobED has successfully completed the world’s first onboard autonomous driving demonstration aboard a working vessel, a step its backers expect to accelerate the era of smart ships, in which robots are deployed in cargo areas for safety inspections...
splash247.com
 
China has plenty more autonomous vehicles because many of the cars are connected to the grid. That is where we and other developed countries are going. I won't care because I will hire Grab taxis.
 
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