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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Meh, I think I like the idea of 1 truck pulling up to a docking bay, them all driving out the back and hopping on the mostly empty cars in slow times that are already going to the subway platforms where the deliveries need to go. It’s either that or having to go through every subway entry point to drop them off. I think this will get flack because people are anti automation, but if it was people pushing carts to restock them manually I would still prefer them all getting in one vehicle to the subway and all getting on there and hopping off 1 at each stop. The product is all coming from one source, so why have 43 routes from place to sub station and then 43 routes back. If it is actually busy enough that it is holding up entry somewhere, having it in one location and streamlining it sounds nicer as well. It’s not like the people can bring carts through turnstyles anyways, so they are already entering through a designated entry if the 7-11’s are on the platforms. (They might not be, they could be elsewhere, but the article says downstairs).




  • What do you mean, like the notifications or no direct messaging at all? Also if it isn’t available here, you could verify if it is available on Piefed, which would just have you accessing the same content from another client. Aka you would still see your comments here, but if that feature is important to you maybe they have it or are building it. I don’t know much about the project other than users mentioning some features they were looking for existed there. (And some instances on Lemmy are building instances there)


  • Kind of. Waymo is around which is much better. Mercedes Benz is German with some manufacturing here in the states but got approval for Autonomous level 3. Ford and GM have BlueCruise and SuperCruise which they were keeping at level 2, and testing level 3 without showing much info to the public from what I have seen. They are old established companies, when they launch level 3, id expect it to work way better than Teslas current performance. I imagine they want to work out the few kinks Waymo has and ensure the don’t end up with mass recalls/lawsuits. Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep has announced their level 3 but is also not sending it to market yet. Once again an established company that knows the pitfalls of almost going bankrupt if I remember. I’d say Waymo sits between level 4 & 5. It can and does drive without a driver through cities/highways all day long, but there have been incidents where they have trouble “settling down” for the night if you will. Like a portion should return to a remote parking area ideally (the lots are to close now in my opinion) when business is slower and all park in spots and just sit until demand starts to increase again, slowly feeding more vehicles to taxi the people only when needed. BUTT there have been incidents where 10 of them pull into the parking lot and they all get cautious about hitting each other when attempting to park anf they were originally designed to wait for the other vehicle to park assuming it has a person driving, yet they are all autonomous so they wait on each other and in a notable incident in the past they were all honking at each other trying to get the others to just pull in first which as you can imagine cars honking at each other in the middle of the night will piss people off. That said I’m sure theybe fixed that by now, but Id want proof it could go on ANY road and park anywhere before calling it a full level 5.

    I’ve only been in 2 Waymos, both in Tempe, AZ last March/April and all was fine. Once because I got drunk the night before I was going to fly out, so I called one to pick me up and see what it was like, and once the next morning to go get my rental car so I could return to the airport and fly home. The ride to get the car was flawless. The ride home from the bar was near flawless. 9/10 I’d say. The only complaint I would have had is when it pulled into the hotel there were cars in the drop off covered area by the front doors and the car decided to take it carefully at about 4 mph for the last 150 feet do to foot traffic and unpredictable cars pulling out and loading baggage. So if I was driving I would have went a bit quicker, but it being extra safe around pedestrians isn’t a big flaw in my book.







  • A lot of it kicks back to companies as well. If every time someone interviews for a new job they are telling users they need to run their programs or even just the application for the interview from a Windows machine it pressures users into going back. I always see shit like that for stuff that is even just browser based. I prefer not to install zoom, teams, and such and just open in the browser, but ive run into companies saying their typing tests and other pre employment material only run on Windows. It’s usually false, as I never actually have needed it to install Windows, but it sows doubt in people who don’t want to take chances when they are already in a potentially tight spot.