"Door ajar" versus $100 billion valuation.
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"Door ajar" versus $100 billion valuation.
Today I learned that you can DoS a Waymo by opening its door.
"The More You Know..."
Waymo, Google's autonomous vehicle company, and DoorDash, the delivery and gig work platform, have launched a pilot program that pays Dashers, at least in one case, around $10 to travel to a parked Waymo and close its door that the previous passenger left open.
https://jwz.org/b/yk3Z
@jwz ”Autonomous vehicles” actually mean low-paying shit jobs in a remote location.
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@jwz have you looked at videos of Waymo "stacking"? It's hilarious. One person stands in front of the vehicle and then someone else goes around putting post-it notes or taping paper in front of their sensors. The car is effectively disabled at that point.
My wife used to use a similar technique using post-it notes to disable automatic flushing toilets in public bathrooms when our kids were little because they were scared by the random flushing when the sensors didn't properly notice them.
@GreatBigTable @jwz side note, I'm 40-something and still scared by the random flushing.
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"Door ajar" versus $100 billion valuation.
Today I learned that you can DoS a Waymo by opening its door.
"The More You Know..."
Waymo, Google's autonomous vehicle company, and DoorDash, the delivery and gig work platform, have launched a pilot program that pays Dashers, at least in one case, around $10 to travel to a parked Waymo and close its door that the previous passenger left open.
https://jwz.org/b/yk3Z@jwz Anecdotally in summer with full veg cover, if there are some tree limbs sticking out into the road, they'll glitch out a lil bit. They're impressive (and are more subdued and considerate than humans) but have a lot of fairly common failure modes, and this is in dense city grids where they have enough of them circulating around to get a full coverage refresh every day. Most of the US is unfortunately suburban sprawl (I was told a decade ago that all truck drivers would be obsolete soon, now they make more than ever. maybe I should switch
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"Door ajar" versus $100 billion valuation.
Today I learned that you can DoS a Waymo by opening its door.
"The More You Know..."
Waymo, Google's autonomous vehicle company, and DoorDash, the delivery and gig work platform, have launched a pilot program that pays Dashers, at least in one case, around $10 to travel to a parked Waymo and close its door that the previous passenger left open.
https://jwz.org/b/yk3Z@jwz fuck I wish I could get a stupid valuation for acting this stupid!
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@GreatBigTable @jwz side note, I'm 40-something and still scared by the random flushing.
@lauerhahn @GreatBigTable @jwz probably because it feels like someone is watching and doing it to spook you
I know that didn’t help, sorry.
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@lauerhahn @GreatBigTable @jwz probably because it feels like someone is watching and doing it to spook you
I know that didn’t help, sorry.
@europlus @GreatBigTable @jwz Nah. It's just gross. At least program it to wait until no one's sitting on it!
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"Door ajar" versus $100 billion valuation.
Today I learned that you can DoS a Waymo by opening its door.
"The More You Know..."
Waymo, Google's autonomous vehicle company, and DoorDash, the delivery and gig work platform, have launched a pilot program that pays Dashers, at least in one case, around $10 to travel to a parked Waymo and close its door that the previous passenger left open.
https://jwz.org/b/yk3Z@jwz be a shame if someone repeated that stunt to call 50 waymos into a narrow one-way street, just to augment the experience by opening all doors.
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@jwz have you looked at videos of Waymo "stacking"? It's hilarious. One person stands in front of the vehicle and then someone else goes around putting post-it notes or taping paper in front of their sensors. The car is effectively disabled at that point.
My wife used to use a similar technique using post-it notes to disable automatic flushing toilets in public bathrooms when our kids were little because they were scared by the random flushing when the sensors didn't properly notice them.
@GreatBigTable @jwz
Wait if the sensors can be tricked that easily, wont street dust and dirt do the same thing eventually if the cars aren't cleaned often enough? That seems like a safety issue. -
"Door ajar" versus $100 billion valuation.
Today I learned that you can DoS a Waymo by opening its door.
"The More You Know..."
Waymo, Google's autonomous vehicle company, and DoorDash, the delivery and gig work platform, have launched a pilot program that pays Dashers, at least in one case, around $10 to travel to a parked Waymo and close its door that the previous passenger left open.
https://jwz.org/b/yk3Z@jwz It's basically the same thing as they need someone to plug them in. They cant plug themselves in either.
Waymos are still so awesome
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"Door ajar" versus $100 billion valuation.
Today I learned that you can DoS a Waymo by opening its door.
"The More You Know..."
Waymo, Google's autonomous vehicle company, and DoorDash, the delivery and gig work platform, have launched a pilot program that pays Dashers, at least in one case, around $10 to travel to a parked Waymo and close its door that the previous passenger left open.
https://jwz.org/b/yk3Z@jwz Sure seems like you could kill this company dead quick if you could get enough people to just carry some post-it notes around with them and commit to opening the doors of any Wayno they see stopped at an intersection.
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@GreatBigTable @jwz side note, I'm 40-something and still scared by the random flushing.
@lauerhahn I will often drape a piece of toilet paper over those sensors when I use them for the same reason.
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@jwz be a shame if someone repeated that stunt to call 50 waymos into a narrow one-way street, just to augment the experience by opening all doors.
@pluralistic@CKL @jwz @pluralistic or, you know, created more gig opportunities for doordashers...
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@GreatBigTable @jwz
Wait if the sensors can be tricked that easily, wont street dust and dirt do the same thing eventually if the cars aren't cleaned often enough? That seems like a safety issue.Dunno about Waymos, but I had recently false positives on the ultrasound parking sensors caused by dried salt and dirt
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@CKL @jwz @pluralistic or, you know, created more gig opportunities for doordashers...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive@hareldan @CKL @jwz @pluralistic or, and hear me out here, put the snakes into the Waymos
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Dunno about Waymos, but I had recently false positives on the ultrasound parking sensors caused by dried salt and dirt
@Starkimarm @hiisikoloart @GreatBigTable Salt prior art: https://jwz.org/b/yiki
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Dunno about Waymos, but I had recently false positives on the ultrasound parking sensors caused by dried salt and dirt
@Starkimarm @GreatBigTable @jwz
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@hareldan @CKL @jwz @pluralistic or, and hear me out here, put the snakes into the Waymos
@pikesley @hareldan @CKL @jwz @pluralistic
oh. Oh no.
The whole thing is just a stupid publicity stunt playing on the name Door.Dash.
I wonder if they have something else they want to distract people from lately.
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@Starkimarm @GreatBigTable @jwz
That sounds pretty unsafe design... -
"Door ajar" versus $100 billion valuation.
Today I learned that you can DoS a Waymo by opening its door.
"The More You Know..."
Waymo, Google's autonomous vehicle company, and DoorDash, the delivery and gig work platform, have launched a pilot program that pays Dashers, at least in one case, around $10 to travel to a parked Waymo and close its door that the previous passenger left open.
https://jwz.org/b/yk3Z@jwz Close one door, open the other one, claim 10$, repeat
Standing around a car and opening/closing doors is my new dream job
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"Door ajar" versus $100 billion valuation.
Today I learned that you can DoS a Waymo by opening its door.
"The More You Know..."
Waymo, Google's autonomous vehicle company, and DoorDash, the delivery and gig work platform, have launched a pilot program that pays Dashers, at least in one case, around $10 to travel to a parked Waymo and close its door that the previous passenger left open.
https://jwz.org/b/yk3Z@jwz The self-driving cars can't open/close their doors themselves? That's not the Knight Rider future I was promised…
(To be fair, it would probably be the equivalent of ED-209 meets Bride vs. Buck, not K.I.T.T.)
