Interesting, how does insurance work if the PUG vehicle hits a non/motorist… so then no one is to blame then??
It’s just disgusting they have the money for this.
Video said it was donated by the company that made it, not that that’s better. Next step autonomous officers donated by Totally Not Killbots LLC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pedestrian?wprov=sfla1
Reality is stranger than fiction.
- “Fully autonomous”. Sure it is.
- “We can touch our community in ways we have never done before.” I’m sure the community will feel especially touched and not at all intimidated by multiton robots rolling through their neighborhoods instead of, I dunno, actual people.
- I’m certain that when one of these maims someone, everyone will run to the head of the line to take responsibility and handle the situation with thoughtfulness and care.
Came here for this. Lemmy does not disappoint
Real life example of being blinded by “can we” instead of “should we”. This society needs a great deal of introspection.
Nothing that a can of paint or a bucket of tar couldn’t fix.
Throw and run … and the local department would have to spend an hour locating the vehicle to get people to it, then a few hours more towing it back, then days more to clean it up.
In my experience, they might not clean their own vehicles. They get people serving community service hours for petty crimes to do it for them.
Or so I’m told.
Cleanup is absolutely a time burn, but let’s also be real; they’ll go straight to it via GPS tracking and unless you get the windshield real good, someone will just get in and manual drive it back to the station.
True … but it might be time to figure out a liquid combination that stains or is slightly corrosive. You don’t need to melt things, just corrosive enough to etch, mar or deform glass or plastics of sensor lenses.
You clean everything up but realize that the liquid has permanently damaged an imaging lens cover, either with deep stains or corrosion.
Then you replace it but then it costs money and time.
And you do it over and over again
Termite is pretty easy to make and should do the…ok, pretty much every job
Hydrofluoric acid is really good at etching glass.
But it’s also really good at eating your bones.
Craft stores sell glass(*) etching cream that will absolutely do this (to the types of glass I’ve used it on). Unless there is some super specific chemistry to windshield glass, a jar of that should work.
Edit: spelling
Contain a small amount and seal it inside a glass ball or cylinder … use a slingshot to throw it
Seems more like a marketing stunt. Emphasis by me:
The PUG will eventually be allowed to drive the streets of Miami-Dade unmanned after a healthy amount of community feedback, the sheriff said. But a deputy will be in the front seat as the vehicle drives itself — for at least the first year.
I think I’ve spotted a Ford logo on the car. And to my knowledge they’re nowhere near autonomous driving as of today?! Wikipedia says they’re at SAE level 2, while something in the general direction of autonomy would be level 4 or 5, with the added complexity that they’d need special software and AI training for emergency situations. Which probably doesn’t exist either. So I seriously doubt it’ll be able to do any proper police work in a year. It might be able to autonomously grab a box of donuts from their favorite store by then. And I suppose that could make their day better. But more than that is going to prove difficult… And the drone might be useful, as far as I know drones can really help with police and fire and rescue tasks.
It is a (not really) autonomous vehicle that serves as a launchpad for a drone, which is the thing that does the reconnaissance.
Like they could just put drones on regular vehicles, but they want to pretend it is something more than that.
This isn’t from ford, they mention in the video is donated by another company
It is a safe guess that nobody has self driving Fords more advanced than Ford.
Yes. That’s what I meant. I’d bet this “Policing Lab” is closer to MTV’s Pimp my Ride with Xzibit, than a research institute outperforming Ford at their own cars with cutting-edge research on Lidar, sensor fusion and special AI training… They likely have someone who does the vinyl on the car, someone who cuts a hole in the roof so the drone can be deployed and an electrician to wire everything to 2 computers and 3 smartphones. Only difference they don’t install a whirlpool and a sound system in the back. Okay, there has to be a bit more to this story, but they omit all the interesting (technical) details, I wonder why…
Edit: And reading their website makes me reconsider what I just said. Seems they have some other surveillance tech to sell and embedded and AI assistance and optimization. Could be a marketing campaign to sell the other stuff. And they don’t even write themselves about self-driving. From what I gather on their website, the car is supposed to sit somewhere, as deterrence and provide a live video-feed and scan license plates. And then there’s the drone on top and the entire car can be used as an intercom.
The electronics might nobe from Ford but that vehicle is a Ford Explorer, and probably one with the police package. Ford sells a police package explorer to several police departments in the US.
Finally, hiding in shrubbery will be a thing of the past for the criminal underbrush.
Miami - Dade Metro is rife with corruption.
