“In China, driverless delivery vans have become a total meme, they plow through crumbling roads, fresh concrete, motorcycles, anything. Nothing stops them.”

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      The US has the NHTSA (at least, for now), which doesn’t stand for shenanigans like this. And the two market leaders in autonomous vehicles (Waymo, Zoox) actually take safety seriously, unlike others (Tesla, RIP Cruise).

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        6 hours ago

        The nearest person with skin anything darker than ‘never had a tan’, as is custom (or more recently, anyone not cisgendered, heterosexual, and male)

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      6 hours ago

      US streets aren’t always great but what’s up with all these open trenches right in the middle of the roads in this video??

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        5 hours ago

        The first clip is clearly not somewhere cars should be. The other two… Trenches? Are construction areas clearly. I’m not sure what you mean?

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          4 hours ago

          In the first clip there is a tuktuk in the foreground and a passenger car in the background so I don’t know how you got to “clearly somewhere cars should not be.

          In clip 4 there’s some pavement but it falls away into a large hole that has filled with water… call it what you will. “Trench” is one word for it.