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Self-Driving Waymo Cab Smashes Into Delivery Robot (futurism.com)
submitted 5 days ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 92 points 5 days ago (5 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.

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 35 points 5 days ago (2 children)

They had hot, angry robot sex afterward

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

For revenge or for reconciliation?

[–] RCTreeFiddy@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days 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.

[–] essteeyou@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Sounds like a good time to use the word "bump"

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Maybe even "boop".

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 12 points 5 days ago

The word "slam" has been reserved for headlines of someone giving minor criticism, can't use that unfortunately.