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foobar to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago

Robbing Delivery Robots Is Now a Thing

www.autoweek.com

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Robbing Delivery Robots Is Now a Thing

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foobar to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago
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Delivery robots are now being robbed for food and other items in some cities where they have been introduced. Is robot security catching up?
  • @Zoldyck@discuss.online
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    109•2 years ago

    Fix poverty and you fix a huge amount of other things.

    • @chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org
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      79•2 years ago

      Ok sure, but have we considered arming the robots with assault rifles instead?

      • @thehatfox@lemmy.world
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        Arming autonomous robots, what could possibly go wrong?

        • @Hupf@feddit.de
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          …_._

          …_._

      • @Meruten@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        29•2 years ago

        The article mentioned tear gas canisters be equipped instead. I can’t wait for a delivery robot to be near my property, someone tries to mess with it and gets gassed, then I get to enjoy tear gas as well from my front porch.

        • @nous@programming.dev
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          30•2 years ago

          Or some kid walks past it, bumps it slightly and gets gassed in the face.

          • Loom In Essence
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            10•2 years ago

            Well the next kid will think twice about bumping the bot.

          • Echo Dot
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            I’m assuming the canisters would only be released if the door is forced open. I highly doubt it’s going to activate a few slightly knock it I mean hell, those things drive into lamp posts on occasion.

            • @nous@programming.dev
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              5•2 years ago

              With the care and attention tech companies give to the safety of their devices, I can definitely see it spraying someone unintended. Probably even the person it was delivering to. Any company sensible enough to properly implement this likely will finder better less potentially dangerous solutions to the problem. This idea stinks of someone who gave it 5 minutes of thought and wants it implemented as quickly as possible.

              • Echo Dot
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                1•2 years ago

                Yeah but it’s what they’ll do.

        • @Plopp@lemmy.world
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          6•2 years ago

          Tear gas infused hamburger, mmmmm. Cough cough.

          • @AustralianSimon@lemmy.world
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            1•2 years ago

            Now that’s hot sauce

        • @AustralianSimon@lemmy.world
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          1•2 years ago

          Mmmm tear gassy food delivery

      • @Aceticon@lemmy.world
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        7•2 years ago

        Surely area of effect weaponry would be better.

        The higher collateral impact just serves as an extra lesson to any wannabe thieves.

      • Laura
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        7•2 years ago

        I’d go with thermonuclear warheads

    • @aceshigh@lemmy.world
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      3•2 years ago

      If we’re all not living in survival mode, why would people work? /s

    • @jampacked@lemmy.world
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      2•2 years ago

      Making people self sustainable is a good way to fix poverty but the state actively works against that.

    • @Aux@lemmy.world
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      -40•2 years ago

      How’s that related? A criminal is a criminal, their wealth is irrelevant.

      • @BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        29•2 years ago

        Because fixing poverty lowers criminality.

        • @Aux@lemmy.world
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          -42•2 years ago

          Ahaha! Right, sure!

          • illectrility
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            10•2 years ago

            Good point. It’s the poorest cities and neighborhoods that have the lowest crime rate. Forgot about that, thanks for educating.

            • @Aux@lemmy.world
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              -4•2 years ago

              It’s the poorest countries which have lower crime rates. You people are lunatics.

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              • illectrility
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                https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/crime-rate-by-country

                • @Aux@lemmy.world
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                  0•2 years ago

                  Yeah, that supports my point.

          • @ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works
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            6•2 years ago

            TIL there’s people who don’t know that petty crime increases with poverty.

            I have been made aware of some dumb groups of people in my time on the internet. But this one is up near the top.

          • @BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            Well ain’t you just a ball of sunshine.

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        • @Aux@lemmy.world
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          Lick as much as you wish, I won’t judge.

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            • @Aux@lemmy.world
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              Yeah, I love watching boot lickers doing their best!

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