Uber v Taxis
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@Hooroo said in Uber v Taxis:
@Rembrandt said in Uber v Taxis:
@Hooroo said in Uber v Taxis:
@Kirwan said in Uber v Taxis:
I killed every pedestrian in my way.
Yup! I did the ole "if it is going to me or you, it will be you, I'm sorry"
What makes you think you're in the car?
I was putting myself in the car for decision making purposes
I pretended I was a sky fairy deciding the fate of those below me, and how humanity would benefit/suffer depending who died. If you were a criminal or fat then that didn't help your chances of survival.
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On the criminal side, if the law makers have any concept of forward thought they should start enforcing jaywalking laws in the next few years. Start with warnings, then small fines, then ramp it up.
If self drive comes in & people just amble across the road that'll create huge traffic jams as the cars will brake. So then more & more assholes will just stroll across the road when they feel like it. So you really want 4 or 5 years of people being weaned off jaywalking before we get there.
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@gollum said in Uber v Taxis:
On the criminal side, if the law makers have any concept of forward thought they should start enforcing jaywalking laws in the next few years. Start with warnings, then small fines, then ramp it up.
If self drive comes in & people just amble across the road that'll create huge traffic jams as the cars will brake. So then more & more assholes will just stroll across the road when they feel like it. So you really want 4 or 5 years of people being weaned off jaywalking before we get there.
Surely it isn't hard to get the AI to recognise the situation, accelerate and lay on the horn to put the shits up jaywalkers?
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@gollum said in Uber v Taxis:
You'd need to get it to recognise how far down the buttocks region the jeans were settled. Or if the person were texting, so it could decide on clip or full collision. And then reversal.
Just apply the good old points system.
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@gollum said in Uber v Taxis:
On the criminal side, if the law makers have any concept of forward thought they should start enforcing jaywalking laws in the next few years. Start with warnings, then small fines, then ramp it up.
If self drive comes in & people just amble across the road that'll create huge traffic jams as the cars will brake. So then more & more assholes will just stroll across the road when they feel like it. So you really want 4 or 5 years of people being weaned off jaywalking before we get there.
That's a damn good point.
Humans being humans will find a way to game a system. The flip side will be it will be always safe to cross the road, I guess.
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@gollum said in Uber v Taxis:
On the criminal side, if the law makers have any concept of forward thought they should start enforcing jaywalking laws in the next few years. Start with warnings, then small fines, then ramp it up.
I got done for jaywalking in the police state otherwise known as Queensland. The cop looked confused when I pointed out no-one was inconvenienced, that it wouldn't be a crime 20m to my right and that I wasn't brown so why was he bothering me?
If self drive comes in & people just amble across the road that'll create huge traffic jams as the cars will brake. So then more & more assholes will just stroll across the road when they feel like it. So you really want 4 or 5 years of people being weaned off jaywalking before we get there.
Good. Cars in high pedestrian traffic areas should give way to people. Where I live they've recently turned a street into a shared zone where the speed limit is 20km/h and pedestrians have right of way. At best it's a slight and temporary inconvenience - and that's when I have to pilot the vehicle.
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@antipodean said in Uber v Taxis:
that I wasn't brown
I was going to ask if he was brown and suggest that you probably didn't help your situation - then I realised that Queensland is unlikely to have many coloured police.
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@Snowy My statement is a reflection of Queensland's well-earned reputation for lazy, racist police.
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@antipodean Yeah, I got that hence my comment on them being unlikely to have coloured cops.
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@Kruse said in Uber v Taxis:
I got done for jaywalking within an hour of arriving in the US. My response was "sorry - I come from a country where people are trusted to know how to cross the road safely"
It could have been worse. If you are black they probably would have shot you
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@antipodean said in Uber v Taxis:
@Snowy My statement is a reflection of Queensland's well-earned reputation for lazy, racist police.
Genuine question - how did you come to the conclusion that Qld police are lazy and racist?
In my experience Qld police officers are no different to anyone else in society - there are good ones, bad ones, lazy ones, hard working ones, fat ones, skinny ones, racist ones, tolerant ones...you get the picture.
Also, you mentioned Qld is a police state. What do you base this on? Is this a reference to the bikie laws? Again, in my experience, Qld police are tied down by just as many laws and policies that protect the criminal and make the job harder as any other state in Australia. -
@Crazy-Horse said in Uber v Taxis:
@antipodean said in Uber v Taxis:
@Snowy My statement is a reflection of Queensland's well-earned reputation for lazy, racist police.
Genuine question - how did you come to the conclusion that Qld police are lazy and racist?
I lived there for a decade. My wife's family is from Queensland. I have two close mates who were police officers in Queensland after serving elsewhere and that's their opinions too. Neither of them could believe how unprofessional the organisation was.
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@Rocky-Rockbottom said in Uber v Taxis:
@Kruse said in Uber v Taxis:
I got done for jaywalking within an hour of arriving in the US.
i got invited at stay at a gay bloke's house within 30 mins of arriving in the US.
shit i mustve been a handsome fluffybunny back then
Or was it the wide and inviting mouth?
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@canefan said in Uber v Taxis:
@Rocky-Rockbottom said in Uber v Taxis:
@Kruse said in Uber v Taxis:
I got done for jaywalking within an hour of arriving in the US.
i got invited at stay at a gay bloke's house within 30 mins of arriving in the US.
shit i mustve been a handsome fluffybunny back then
Or was it the wide and inviting mouth?
Probably the arseless chaps.
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@antipodean I can understand where your friends are coming from, sometimes I am incredibly embarrassed by the Qld Police (eg the weak as piss pursuit policy). I am jaded, cynical and pissed off with the organisation, but from my research and experience many police officers around the world feel the same about their own organisations. Police around the world have a saying TJF (The Job's Fucked) and that pretty much sums things up.
Outside of the attitude changes that police officers (particularly frontline officers) all over the world experience as they progress in timed served, I have not seen anything to suggest Qld Police officers are any more or less racist than the general public. Police stereotype for sure, and much of it is done along race and gender lines, but I doubt Qld police are any worse.
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Uber has been in Cairns for a week, 7 fucking days, and already one of their drivers was arrested for DUI twice, in the same night, once with paying passengers.
You stay classy North Queensland
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Uber'd for the first time a couple of weeks ago - think I got UberX because the car was a brand new Camry, leather, clean as fuck with a big African dude driving it. Happened to be interested in solar power i.e. learning about it and going back home to Nigeria to help deploy it. so it was the best 10 minute ride I've had in a taxi-like transport
