Spyke

>A huge DoorDash box truck rolled up to take it away, with an employee seen on camera appearing to manually pilot it towards the truck’s rear.

Bake him away, toys!

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I'm sorry... a what? I've ordered DoorDash several times and never got a delivery robot.

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lemmy.ca

If that had been a person who refused orders to leave the scene they would've been manhandled to the ground and arrested at best. Delivery robot was treated with more respect by the police than an actual human.

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Amazon has ac for it's equipment but none for the workers. Cruelty is the point.

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Uh, yeah. Because it's a robot. Not a person. It's limited to robot things, not potentially infinite person things.

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lemmy.ca

That’s because it’s built to travel on roadways and bike lanes, leaving its fellow sidewalk crawlers in the dust.

This is a pretty concerning detail buried near the end. How safe is it to bikers to be sharing space with these kinds of things? And if they become more common, what stops them from crowding out the space entirely?

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sh.itjust.works

The same thing that keeps bikers from crowding out multiple lanes when they travel. Think of the robots' safety!

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lemmy.world

I wonder what the legal ramifications of pushing one over would be

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You can rest assured corpos will have laws on the books to protect their property. Don't be surprised if this property becomes an extension of their "person" and attempted murder or manslaughter charges are a possibility.

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lemmus.org

Shocked the cops didn't light it up for "resisting."

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Next time SWAT has me barricaded in I'm gonna have to remember to just start ordering as much delivery as possible. The humming sound you can't hear but feel in your fillings is the infrasound from an approaching Amazon drone swarm delivering the 1000 lead dildos I Next Half Hour ordered.

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lemmy.world

Good thing it wasn't dog shaped or the cops would have shot it.

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You reached the end