- "Fully autonomous". Sure it is.
- "We can touch our community in ways we have never done before." I'm sure the community will feel especially touched and not at all intimidated by multiton robots rolling through their neighborhoods instead of, I dunno, actual people.
- I'm certain that when one of these maims someone, everyone will run to the head of the line to take responsibility and handle the situation with thoughtfulness and care.
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Nothing that a can of paint or a bucket of tar couldn't fix.
Throw and run ... and the local department would have to spend an hour locating the vehicle to get people to it, then a few hours more towing it back, then days more to clean it up.
Cleanup is absolutely a time burn, but let's also be real; they'll go straight to it via GPS tracking and unless you get the windshield real good, someone will just get in and manual drive it back to the station.
True .... but it might be time to figure out a liquid combination that stains or is slightly corrosive. You don't need to melt things, just corrosive enough to etch, mar or deform glass or plastics of sensor lenses.
You clean everything up but realize that the liquid has permanently damaged an imaging lens cover, either with deep stains or corrosion.
Then you replace it but then it costs money and time.
And you do it over and over again
Hydrofluoric acid is really good at etching glass.
But it's also really good at eating your bones.
Craft stores sell glass(*) etching cream that will absolutely do this (to the types of glass I've used it on). Unless there is some super specific chemistry to windshield glass, a jar of that should work.
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Contain a small amount and seal it inside a glass ball or cylinder .... use a slingshot to throw it
I was thinking paintballs ;)
Termite is pretty easy to make and should do the...ok, pretty much every job
In my experience, they might not clean their own vehicles. They get people serving community service hours for petty crimes to do it for them.
Or so I'm told.
I know for a fact one of the cities in my area uses the people who are in the city jail for unpaid fines. They get $50 off their fine... by doing all the labor of the jail, like washing the floor, cooking the food, and yes, washing the cop cars.
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Seems more like a marketing stunt. Emphasis by me:
The PUG will eventually be allowed to drive the streets of Miami-Dade unmanned after a healthy amount of community feedback, the sheriff said. But a deputy will be in the front seat as the vehicle drives itself — for at least the first year.
I think I've spotted a Ford logo on the car. And to my knowledge they're nowhere near autonomous driving as of today?! Wikipedia says they're at SAE level 2, while something in the general direction of autonomy would be level 4 or 5, with the added complexity that they'd need special software and AI training for emergency situations. Which probably doesn't exist either. So I seriously doubt it'll be able to do any proper police work in a year. It might be able to autonomously grab a box of donuts from their favorite store by then. And I suppose that could make their day better. But more than that is going to prove difficult... And the drone might be useful, as far as I know drones can really help with police and fire and rescue tasks.
It is a (not really) autonomous vehicle that serves as a launchpad for a drone, which is the thing that does the reconnaissance.
Like they could just put drones on regular vehicles, but they want to pretend it is something more than that.
This isn’t from ford, they mention in the video is donated by another company
The electronics might not be from Ford but that vehicle is a Ford Explorer, and probably one with the police package. Ford sells a police package Explorer to several police departments in the US.
It is a safe guess that nobody has self driving Fords more advanced than Ford.
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So its a police car driving around. What if someone actually needs help? What can just a car do?
This whole idea is so utterly stupid, I'm at loss of words.
It can't do anything to help anyone, but it's essentially a mobile Flock camera with license plate tracking and facial recognition. It's a privacy nightmare, and a massive legal liability for the city (Benn Jordan has an excellent video on his YouTube about Flock cameras and how bad they are). Best case scenario is it drives through a deep puddle during the next hurricane and shorts itself out.
I agree. I know your post was serious but I couldn't help thinking of that green goblin truck from that Stephen King movie where tech comes alive. I'm imagine a police car watching a crime in progress and revving it's engine to intimate them.
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I was waiting the whole video for them to explain even one actually useful aspect of this idea, and at the very end a cop says "it can deploy a drone."
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Came here for this. Lemmy does not disappoint
It's just disgusting they have the money for this.
Video said it was donated by the company that made it, not that that's better. Next step autonomous officers donated by Totally Not Killbots LLC
So you can send the car in and it will deploy a drone eh
How about you just deploy a drone
It’s programmed to run over ethnics and then start yelling “HE’S GOT A GUN!” through the speaker while rolling back and forward.
So if it runs over a pedestrian who gets the vacation?
This is also the state were they legalized running over protesters with your car, so maybe they just want this so that they can stop giving the cops PTSD.
This bad boy can do all the civilian striking on aidewalks for you and you dont even have to borher fixing the autonomous part.
Queue the scene in V For Vendetta with cars monitoring everyone's phone calls as it drives around.
Except this fucker can deploy a drone that flies right up to your window and records you
That was real life not a movie thing. Literally without exaggeration. At the time that movie was made the famous tech for that was called The Stingray.
We still call them Stingrays.
That is a brand name like kleenex,we have many more products to be scared of <3
Real life example of being blinded by "can we" instead of "should we". This society needs a great deal of introspection.
Interesting, how does insurance work if the PUG vehicle hits a non/motorist.. so then no one is to blame then??
The cruiser gets suspended on full pay pending an internal investigation.
Taxpayers pay everything
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"For us, it's a way we can touch our community like we never have before"
... By deploying driverless cruisers?
Finally, hiding in shrubbery will be a thing of the past for the criminal underbrush.
Coming soon to all states in America! Corporate sponsored police robots.
Miami. Fucking Miami.
As a Miamian, yes Fucking Miami.
@PugJesus can claim to be their messiah and stop them being evil!
Oh. No... nononono... this shit ain't right. That bullshit ain't gonna fly for long... AI controlled police cruisers??? Fuck that! Im not anything like an activist/protester but id set fire to one of those.
There's probably a load of expensive stuff there waiting to be stolen.
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Miami - Dade Metro is rife with corruption.
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