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Self-Driving Waymo Cab Smashes Into Delivery Robot (futurism.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by return2ozma to c/technology
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[โ€“] AbidanYre 94 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

As it turns out, the impact wasn't too severe. The Waymo cab, to its credit, hit the brakes immediately and avoided knocking the poor little thing over. And moments later, while the robotaxi is still in a daze, the Serve robot drives away like nothing happened.

Smash seems to be overselling it.

[โ€“] RCTreeFiddy 24 points 3 weeks ago

It appears the video may have been sped up in the part just before the impact. I would like to see the unedited clip, I bet it was way less severe than it looked.

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