Oh nooo the robot was blinded by traffic lights says the company.
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK.
Don’t shift the blame to bright ad boards or similar external factors. If the device can’t deal with it, it does not belong in that environment.
and whoever decided it did needs to be made an example of. too many people are harmed by half baked autonomous shit every day.
I hope they told their bus drivers to not brake for those robots next time. If stopping in time means putting the passengers at risk of injury run the damn clanker over.
In split second decisions, you don’t want to run the risk that the driver thought for a moment it’s a robot and not a small kid. Safety first. Let the robot go and sue the company.
It’s not that easy. Running the thing over is also dangerous for the people in the bus. The driver must decide.
What ass backwards timeline we’re living in that we got Asimov’s three laws on backwards? That a human being cannot harm a robot? 🤬
The entire damn point of the three laws is that they don’t work and cause more harm then good… The paradox of the laws is the whole point!
If you’ve ever actually read any of the books you’d know that using these laws as actual laws is a dumb move. The paradoxes caused by them are a pretty central theme.
also robots are pratically blameless, thats why they are made, so it obfuscates the true owners.
Time to give every robot a license plate
But the owner isn’t blameless. What, are robot crashes handled as natural disasters? Is this idiocracy?
people get really angry at me when I flip these things.
Hold upper management criminally liable
just kill them. they have too much money for the courts to be worth shit.
If a delivery robot can’t reliably distinguish traffic lights from advertising, it’s clearly not ready for public roads. Urban environments are unpredictable by nature, not exceptional circumstances. And a software failure could affect an entire fleet, not just one robot. Autonomous delivery may have real benefits, but public safety cannot become collateral damage in the race to automate everything.
Whomever allowed that robot outside is to blame. If they have grievances, they can sue whomever wrote the software or built the device. Keep sending the buck up until it reaches the top.
The responsibility should lie with the company that decided the robot was safe enough to deploy. How it distributes liability among its developers, manufacturers and suppliers is its problem, not the public’s.
When it’s a criminal matter, the assigment of blame is absolutely a public matter. If you or I caused a car accident with irresponsible use of an RC car or a consumer drone, we would be facing criminal prosecution. The fact that no one is likely to face charges in this case is a huge failure of public policy.
💯 That’s an important distinction: Civil liability determines who pays for the damage, while criminal responsibility addresses whether someone’s negligence was serious enough to constitute a crime. And that question absolutely deserves public scrutiny. Automation must not become a shield against criminal accountability.
only resolvable by bathing the courts in their least favorite thing; the blood of the wicked.
The robot was heard yelling “Bite my shiny metal ass!” as it ran away.
along with “I am fast asf boi”
robot fled 😂😂
fled
robot hit and run.
FREE Carolyn Marvin!
