Probably because their CEOs are focusing on their job and not fooling around.

The line scan photo of the Shinkansen train is amazing!

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Line_scan_photo_of_S... (If you're confused by that page, then so was I. It contains the full photo but it's so long that it gets compressed into a line a few pixels high.)

How are Google allowed to get Zeekr? Are they pre tariff or they have some loophole being corporate?

How did you get in?

Looks like it's GAIA by Marco Cochrane, I remember seeing it out in the desert. It looks like it might not be related to Waymo and just on the adjacent property

I don't think the goal is indolence. The goal is freedom. We want a post-need society propped up by automation. That doesn't mean that we should spend our reclaimed time idling, though, but certainly we could.

Reminds me of the half-buried in the sands of time sculptures in Blade Runner 2049; the surrounding self-driving auto depot only adds to the resemblance to some far off future.

It makes me think that we need more representations of humans on and in our cities, to remind us about who they are for. We can shift a small amount of architectural scale towards the human.

I had to look up indolence. At least for the time being im not indolent enough not to look up such things I suppose.

Thank you, I was about to start searching for it :) !

Unless it comes down massively in price, it's not going to displace manual driving for anything other than Uber/taxi. It's far cheaper to drive your own car in most of the us. If parking lots disappear and the parking that remains becomes similar in price to that of major cities and insurance rates skyrocket, then maybe that will change, but only by increasing the overall cost of transportation.

>If you are today a big insurance like Munich Re, and you see already today that self-driving produces already much less accidents (90% or so I read days ago?), and the tech is really new & "not 100% reliable" and you believe that this tech will be rolled out - one day you will start lobbying politicans that manual driving needs to be forbidden, except some rare cases.

Why would insurance companies lobby for that? 90% reduction in accidents means 90% reduction in premiums, which means 90% reduction in profits.

Do insurance companies have a history of lobbying for safety regulations?

They know how to boil a frog.

No need to make small-talk with someone is a positive for many people. That might make it worth it?

Example?

https://archive.is/KvK7D

That would drive me insane, they have my sympathy.

It reminds me a bit of a very small scale version of a robotic harbor, which very much exists in many places across the world already.

I once toured the one in Hamburg, which is highly recommended if you ever get the chance.

Nothing else has quite given me that feeling of being tiny next to this giant city-scale robot since.

Robots and technology have been replacing humans for many decades. It's a positive thing and change is a natural part of life. It's hardly depressing, it's progress.

It's not like humans are somehow put on this earth only to do certain jobs or the same job forever. Contrary to 100+ plus years of predictions, humans will never become obsolete.

I would make a movie about UBI recipients wearing shock collars that are supervised by Optimus robots and pluck almonds or apples.

Perhaps we need a euphemism for UBI: Let's call it "level-1 rich".

Most of it is not drone, but you have to think a bit about the angle and duration to realize this. Merry Christmas

Could you please review and follow the site guidelines? "Oh, who cares." is not an ok way to respond to someone's work on HN, and is particularly bad when a thread is just getting underway.

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(of course I understand that it's disappointing when you're hoping for certain content and end up with something else, but still - please don't express that in a hostile way)

I actually quite liked it, was somehow soothing, especially the car park that was used as a temporary location during the night.

I think the risk to safety was just existing in SF at night.

It isn't what you were expecting-- but it's really good. Give it another look with no expectations.