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Waymo: Expansionspläne erhalten Dämpfer in New York
Der US-Bundesstaat New York gibt die Pläne zur Legalisierung von Roboter-Taxis auf. Das ist ein herber Rückschlag, vor allem für die Alphabet-Tochter Waymo.
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Waymo
– the driver-less taxi company is about to get a $16bn cash injection to further expand its business to cities all around the world.
Smaller American metro areas like Sacramento and Nashville are next up to get Waymo service,
as are global capitals like London and Tokyo.
Fleets of robotaxis are seeming more and more inevitable.
It all can start to feel rather nihilistic.
Last year, the CEO of Waymo told a live audience that society will accept a …

Adding even more cameras for a surveillance state: 'autonomous' delivery robots, and 'autonomous' taxis.
Can be combined with facial recognition, of course.
https://www.404media.co/serve-food-delivery-robot…

Food Delivery Robots Are Feeding Camera Footage to the LAPD, Internal Emails Show
Serve Robotics, which delivers food for Uber Eats, provided footage filmed by at least one of its robots to the LAPD as evidence in a criminal case. The emails show the robots, which are a constant sight in the city, can be used for surveillance.

Huh, what do you know. Waymo (autonomous taxis in use in the US) seem less capable than we've been led to believe: https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/waymos-controlled-workers-philippines

On répète après moi, c'est le troisième choc pétrolier
Serait ptet temps de passer a l'électricité de manière bien plus sérieuse
Prix des carburants : dans les entreprises du transport, c’est la stupeur face Š la brutalité de la hausse

Prix des carburants : dans les entreprises du transport, c’est la stupeur face à la brutalité de la hausse
Des camions aux bus en passant par les taxis ou les avions, les entreprises intensives en carburant subissent un choc d’une vitesse rarement vue.

Tesla verkündet das Ende von Model S & X – nicht wegen revolutionärer Neuerungen, sondern weil die einstigen Flaggschiffe kaum noch Käufer finden. Stattdessen sollen humanoide Roboter und fahrerlose Taxis gefertigt werden. Eine Wette mit hohen Risiken. #Tesla #Elektromobilität

It Turns Out That When Waymos ('self-driving taxis' in the US) Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines* "They provide guidance."
*) According to Waymo, some operators live in the US, but others much further away, including in the Philippines
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It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines
During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.