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foobar to [email protected]English • 2 years ago

Robbing Delivery Robots Is Now a Thing

www.autoweek.com

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Robbing Delivery Robots Is Now a Thing

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foobar to [email protected]English • 2 years ago
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Delivery robots are now being robbed for food and other items in some cities where they have been introduced. Is robot security catching up?
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    Fix poverty and you fix a huge amount of other things.

    • @[email protected]
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      Ok sure, but have we considered arming the robots with assault rifles instead?

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        Arming autonomous robots, what could possibly go wrong?

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        The article mentioned tear gas canisters be equipped instead. I can’t wait for a delivery robot to be near my property, someone tries to mess with it and gets gassed, then I get to enjoy tear gas as well from my front porch.

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          Or some kid walks past it, bumps it slightly and gets gassed in the face.

          • Loom In Essence
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            Well the next kid will think twice about bumping the bot.

          • Echo Dot
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            I’m assuming the canisters would only be released if the door is forced open. I highly doubt it’s going to activate a few slightly knock it I mean hell, those things drive into lamp posts on occasion.

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              With the care and attention tech companies give to the safety of their devices, I can definitely see it spraying someone unintended. Probably even the person it was delivering to. Any company sensible enough to properly implement this likely will finder better less potentially dangerous solutions to the problem. This idea stinks of someone who gave it 5 minutes of thought and wants it implemented as quickly as possible.

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                Yeah but it’s what they’ll do.

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          Tear gas infused hamburger, mmmmm. Cough cough.

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            Now that’s hot sauce

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          Mmmm tear gassy food delivery

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        Surely area of effect weaponry would be better.

        The higher collateral impact just serves as an extra lesson to any wannabe thieves.

      • Laura
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        I’d go with thermonuclear warheads

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      If we’re all not living in survival mode, why would people work? /s

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      Making people self sustainable is a good way to fix poverty but the state actively works against that.

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      How’s that related? A criminal is a criminal, their wealth is irrelevant.

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        Because fixing poverty lowers criminality.

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          Ahaha! Right, sure!

          • illectrility
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            Good point. It’s the poorest cities and neighborhoods that have the lowest crime rate. Forgot about that, thanks for educating.

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              It’s the poorest countries which have lower crime rates. You people are lunatics.

              • illectrility
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                https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/crime-rate-by-country

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                  Yeah, that supports my point.

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