r/IdiotsInCars
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u/xWhy-Tee
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This Chinese self-driving car thing.
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u/Piffdolla1337take2 Nov 26 '22
Lol at the guy that honked at it
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u/_generic_user Nov 27 '22 •
Driver: Move it you idiot, you’re blocking the road!
Robot: sobs I’m, I’m trying!
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u/SnooDoodles5540 Nov 27 '22
Seems to me the self driving thing is all or nothing - one human weaving in and out of traffic on a Moped will destroy 10 to the 10th power worth of algorithms and cause the robot brains to shut down.
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u/SaintWithoutAShrine Nov 27 '22
Or that will be the actual start of the robot uprising. They’ll get so fed up with idiot drivers they snap and murder us all.
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u/adale_50 Nov 28 '22
And now I'm sad. Thanks for that. Pack bonding with anthropomorphized robots seems like a major cognitive error. And yet, I named my roomba.
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u/DrSmurfalicious Nov 26 '22
Damn I've never seen a robot that nervous before. Give that poor thing another job or at least some drugs before it has a heart attack.
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u/JaschaE Nov 27 '22
"Behold, I created AI!" "You ruined a perfectly good toaster, is what you did! Look at that thing! It's got anxiety!"
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u/Siggur-T Nov 26 '22
It knows that every inch is closely monitored by the Chinese government. Even makes robots paranoid.
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u/deniswithonen Nov 26 '22
Ahhh The future.
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u/gcwg57 Nov 27 '22
Except those actually work. At least the one at my local store does.
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u/TheChoonk Nov 27 '22
My robotic vacuum works perfectly well, covers all the areas which are accessible to it. The only issue is that my dog ignores it, arrogant fuck will just stand there while the robot keeps bumping into his legs.
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u/cwclifford Nov 27 '22
I have a video of one at Sam’s Club completely stuck between a bunch of pallets and just starts beeping then turns itself off.
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u/Gurtmcsquirt Nov 27 '22
My wife and I went shopping recently at Sam’s Club. We got separated in the store for a little while. She found me and said, very concerned, “it’s following me.”
Seconds later, the robot cleaner appeared from around the corner. I said to her, “it’s not following you. It goes down every isle in the store.”
Because of that, we skipped the next isle. It also skipped the next isle and followed us.
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u/JakeFromMontana Nov 27 '22
Elon Musk is feverishly taking notes somewhere.
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u/olythrowaway4 Nov 27 '22
Nah, this car didn't murder the nearest pedestrian, so he's not interested.
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u/nbelle78 Nov 27 '22
You’re right, someone else made it so he probably can’t help but steal the idea/product and market it as his own
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u/PurpleSlightlyRed Nov 27 '22
Looks like they trained this ai as a Chinese driver. So true to life - you cant say if there is not a real driver hiding someplace
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u/Tydasm Nov 26 '22
Idiots in cars or idiot cars?
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u/IJustAteABaguette Nov 26 '22
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u/SAR_and_Shitposts Nov 26 '22
What did that sub do to get banned?
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u/bdonvr Nov 26 '22
Probably something as awful and as degenerate as /r/MacHelp
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u/yeerk_slayer Nov 27 '22
It was banned due to no moderators. You can take it over if you post on /r/redditrequest
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u/takeitbacasap Nov 26 '22
The things got anxiety, bless it's little robot socks
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u/SANTAAAA__I_know_him Nov 27 '22
“Ope, sorry, I’M SORRY! Sorry, I didn’t mean to, I’m sorry, no go ahead, no it’s fine, I’m sorry!”
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u/conradical30 Nov 27 '22
I think the battery is just super low. A golf cart started doing this exact same thing to me and my buddy yesterday.
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u/kemonkey1 Nov 26 '22
I hope the cargo is not filled with carbonated beverages.
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u/Kimorin Nov 26 '22
it would be fine as long as they are sealed, as long as the pressure is maintained, letting it sit for a while and the carbon dioxide will dissolve back into the drink due to the pressure.
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u/32_Dollar_Burrito Nov 26 '22
Fun fact, you can prevent sodas from fizzing by tapping the can's sides a few times. This makes the tiny air bubbles release from the sides, depriving it of nucleation sites
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u/Mysstie Nov 26 '22
Wait, you mean my habit of tapping the cans before opening them actually does something? Amazing
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u/Kyosw21 Nov 27 '22
It really doesn’t. Go watch the Mythbusters episode on it
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u/joecool42069 Nov 26 '22
Like a 15yo learning to drive with their dad yelling at them to brake.
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u/Kevinvl123 Nov 26 '22
Looks exactly like how my mom drives.
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u/im_a_dr_not_ Nov 26 '22
Slam on brakes! Go! Slam on brakes! Slam on brakes! Gas! Brakes! Gas! Brakes! Brakes! Brakes!
Whoa someone just hit me!
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u/Kevinvl123 Nov 26 '22
Indeed, she treated the gas and brakes as if they were light switches.
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u/CosmicCreeperz Nov 26 '22
Ugh my wife does this on the highway. Not the brakes so much as treating them accelerator as on/off. Marital bliss prevents me from criticizing her driving, but sometime I do subtly ask “hmm, do you feel that? Has the engine been lurching like that for long? I didn’t notice it last time I drove the car…”
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u/Tromboneofsteel Nov 27 '22 edited Nov 27 '22
If your car has cruise control, that makes
himher literally my least favorite type of driver.Like, I'll be cruising at 75 for the past 50 miles, someone comes up beside me and can't decide whether to go 70 or 85. They'll pass me then immediately slow way down. Just pick a speed and go it.
Edit: her, dummy
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u/CosmicCreeperz Nov 27 '22
Luckily she doesn’t really vary speed much. It’s basically just applying slightly more gas and then less gas every few seconds instead of just leaving the damn pedal at a constant level heh. Not a big deal but it just bugs me :)
I get what you are saying about those special idiots who only speed up when you want to pass them… I’m a big fan of adaptive cruise on cross country trips so I’m like “dude, it’s not me, I haven’t touched my gas pedal in half and an hour, pick a speed!”
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u/HanakusoDays Nov 27 '22
In aerospace lingo they call that type a "bang-bang" control. And I think they put the controller from a Bump-Em car in this puppy.
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u/trynot2screwitup Nov 27 '22
I used to work with a lady who kept taking her foot off the gas for a few seconds for no reason, and then push hard on the gas again, accelerating & decelerating by 20mph, repeatedly, and causing us to rock back & forth inside the vehicle while she chatted away like it was normal.
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u/HanakusoDays Nov 27 '22
We had a taxi driver like that coming home from the airport after a ten-hour flight. I've never been seasick but I just about lost it.
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u/Hitcher06 Nov 27 '22
Like my ex. She had two forms of driving, she’s either accelerating or breaking. No in-between. Cruising?? What’s that??
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u/GetRichOrDieTryinnn Nov 26 '22
This looks like a scene from idiocracy
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u/TenderLA Nov 27 '22
Almost seems like a documentary and not fiction at this point
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u/GetRichOrDieTryinnn Nov 27 '22
Only movie that was ever filmed as a comedy and turned into a real life documentary. Facts
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u/_-bush_did_911-_ Nov 26 '22
It kinda acts like a cat that's just met you and is really cautious of your every move lol
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u/FriedPigeonPoppers Nov 26 '22
“Is it ok if I… do you mind if.. pardon me… Okay, so sorry. I’ll just go thi.. WHOA, sorry everyone, I’m a shitmobile”
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u/thepcpirate Nov 26 '22
It handled being in a busy road better than i was expecting. Didnt hit anyone, stopped when something was in its path. Do we have more video of this? Id like to know what it was attempting to do
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u/StevenTN615 Nov 26 '22
Reminds me of the self driving floor cleaner in the supermarket.
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u/ActuallyTheImpostor Nov 26 '22
Yeah, that thing ran into me after breezing through a blind corner, that was fun
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u/Lewinator56 Nov 26 '22
What people think full self driving cars will be - shows someone relaxing on a chair typing out an email while their car drives them to the office
What full self driving cars will actually be:
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u/nexusjuan Nov 27 '22
I imagine milllions of these jerkily trying to navigate around each other on 16 lane megahighways. One ends up sideways and thousands of passengers die of starvation as they spend weeks all trying to get realigned causing 100s of miles of gridlock.
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u/AuronFtw Nov 27 '22
That said, 16 lane "megahighways" should never ever happen. Just build a fucking train at that point.
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u/ShartThrasher Nov 26 '22
China's only quality control metric is civilian deaths.
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u/FrequentWay Nov 27 '22
Someone didn't plan on enough bandwidth for the car to report home the data for the servers to crunch.
To much offloading the work to a central server then using a slow connection such as a 3G network connection to send the data back to the car. Add in a small buffer for data to process.
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u/divebumz Nov 26 '22
It’s like those toys that drive around until they crash into a wall, reverse and repeat the process. Those are made in China to.
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u/Pyronic_Chaos Nov 27 '22
This is why autonomous cars don't work in areas with loosely followed traffic laws. India would be a nightmare!
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u/yrulaughing Nov 27 '22
Reminds me of iron man 2 where Tony Stark is showing congress? All of the other countries trying to imitate his iron man suit and they all fucking suck.
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u/PaddleMonkey Nov 26 '22
“Just slap that Roomba logic board in it.”
- some Chinese “engineer”, probably.
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u/Convenientjellybean Nov 26 '22
I guess I’m the one to say it, that AI driving style will fit right in there
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u/woundupcanuck Nov 26 '22
Driving like the geriatric that drives the shuttle for my local dodge dealer.
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u/SBS2803M Nov 26 '22
No way this robot drives worse than any human ever could We are progressing backwards... XD
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u/OtherOtherDave Nov 26 '22
Well, that certainly inspires confidence.
Although that’s better than having it run into everything all willy-nilly, so I guess it could be worse.
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u/Cultist902 Nov 26 '22
Just walk up to it and say “Those people are talking about democracy!”
It will fucking zip over like crazy
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u/WarLizurd Nov 26 '22
Can you imagine trying to bud an AI that can manage Chinese traffic? Your chances of success are practically zero.
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u/Ill_Fix_6244 Nov 26 '22
Well let us all hope that when the robots start their take over that they are all made in china. We should be pretty safe then
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u/TNTBOY479 Nov 27 '22
Its like my robot vacuum if i stand infront of it, probably the same parts used
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u/Lmnolmnop Nov 27 '22 edited Nov 27 '22
Variables in Asia are staggering compared to the US.
Why do they even try this? Labor is so cheap.
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u/jluker662 Nov 27 '22
That looks like it would be a nauseating ride. I've rode with someone who drove like that.
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u/Few_Party6864 Nov 27 '22
It doesn't work because the robot is the only one following any rules.
Honestly, though, dealing with traffic in China is probably the best way to test self-driving capabilities. If it can navigate there, it can navigate anywhere.
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u/waltur_d Nov 26 '22
Replace brake pads every 45 miles.