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Previous (3 years ago) post of this URL, with 138 comments as of today. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34843051


https://archive.ph/yUFqG

The car sent the San Mateo PD a report that the riders had toy projectile emitters (aka "guns," I suppose) they were using to shoot pellets at passers-by. It pulled into a parking lot until cops arrived. It doesn't report if it locked the riders in.

I was just thinking I want to try at least one joyride but no, now I'm not even interested in giving them those $20.


I suspect they weren't locked in and stayed because they didn't know the police were coming to their location.

Locking people in a car, remotely, as a private company, for "bad behavior", would be a mess.


Even if there was a way to remotely engage child lock, the front doors are still always unlocked from the inside.


The newer vehicles with the suicide doors don't have an emergency exit lever that I could find.


hmmm kidknapped due to a false positive would be a bit of an oops to try and rewind. its bad enough that the cops do it [just try and get them to give you a ride back to where thay took you from, even when they are told to cut you loose]

it causes real damages when you basically abduct and strand someone.

these "kids" were shooting orbees out the windows, so mischief on them, but get it wrong once and it could get expensive.


> these "kids" were shooting orbees out the windows, so mischief on them, but get it wrong once and it could get expensive

It would be a tiny settlement, particularly now that we have documented cases like this one where the policy is preventing real harm.

Like, if you're a kid drinking and shooting bystanders from the back of an Uber, what do you think is going to happen?


> Like, if you're a kid drinking and shooting bystanders from the back of an Uber, what do you think is going to happen?

I certainly don't think the Uber driver would hold me prisoner.


im thinking a human driver would WTF and pull over into a parking the instant the BB guns came out


And provide footage to Uber and the authorities. I don’t want to be in an Uber with a driver who wouldn’t.


You're not stranded... just call a Waymo.



Oh, is SF licensing babies now?


https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740771

Discussion on a Twitter/X post from Anthropic about this topic fyi.


https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740771

Discussion on a Twitter/X post from Anthropic about this topic fyi.


Not even "fewer mistakes than humans," just make the same mistakes but a lot faster and that's also good enough reason to keep it around (esp when you add parallelization) just from an efficiency/productivity point of view. There may still be other anti AI arguments, ofc.


All that output needs to be checked, thus why making mistakes faster doesn't seem valuable. How do we determine mistakes are made in the first place. Is it determined by people?


> Is it determined by people?

Could be. Machines don't need to provide all the functions of human beings to replace many workers. You can concentrate the supervision and direction function in a single person and assign the rest of the grunt job to machines. You still have replaced most of your human workers.


My latest contention is that [video] links on HN, when sorted for newest, are the perfect way to enjoy YouTube.


Previous post, that was flagged to boot: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48613112


I wish I could say there was something interesting to read in the article but I can't. Here's the link all the same : https://archive.ph/NaK7K


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