Virginia is the first state to pass a law allowing robots to deliver straight to your door.
Virginia is the first state to pass a law allowing robots to deliver straight to your door. Idaho and Florida may be next.
“Virginia has made robotics history. The commonwealth is the first state to pass legislation allowing delivery robots to operate on sidewalks and crosswalks across the state.
The new law goes into effect on July 1 and was signed into law by the governor last Friday…”
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I did say once that humans have a sick insanity streak. Robots? Ha!
I wonder how many jobs will be lost.
Hillary Weech I prefer to wonder how many lives will be reclaimed. less work = more time with family. more time for hobbies. more time for personal growth. more time for creativity. the age of automation is upon us. its our leaders that need to wake up, catch up, and start preparing us for that.
Wasim Muklashy There’s a lot of positive in what you say. Some employers will see less staff more money
Hillary Weech Oh absolutely. No doubt about that. But another positive is that more time will allow some people not only to create their own businesses, but also to find ways to make an income doing the things they enjoy doing. Our economic models will also begin to adjust in order to pay us for doing the things we already need to do, including raising our children, tending our gardens, coming up with solutions to problems, etc. Some of that will also be supplemented by systems like universal basic income, which is already being tested around the world including counties in the U.S., which can be funded by taxing the robots. For example, for every employer that wants to use robots instead, they pay a tax for replacing that human, a brilliant system proposed by Bill Gates, and those funds are passed along to the universal basic income system, etc. I actually find it quite exciting to see how this is going to play out.
Wasim Muklashy
I did say that humans, especially the capitalist pigs, have an insanity streak in themselves for going al troppo, including those idiot politicians for allowing this senseless garbage to be passed when we know very well that they will be subjected to vandalism, thief and anything else, even a kick from an irate pedestrian who does want them to share the sidewalk. This also means pressure from jobless people. But the strange part that I don’t understand is, how and why people are accepting this kind of delivery. I mean how can they be so sure their belonings or whatever they have sent or will receive are being delivered safely without any risk of thieving or damage. How can they be so sure this system is going to work without risk of people kicking them off the paths or cars won’t crush them? And lastly, how are they going to pay for delivery, including bills, mortgages, car finances, insurance, everyday needs, food, clothing, school fees and books, etc., when there are no jobs because of all this automation, all this replacement of oeople to robots, electrification and autonomous vehicles, etc.? Surely the people aren’t that idiots to accept having the parcels delivered at home, surely they don’t want driverles trucks collect even their weekly garbage and leave millions jobless as you read this. The same mistakes they are already making by buying Chinese made products by American companies who ‘eloped’ to China to produce all cheapo and then ship the products back to the USA and elsewhere and sell it at the price imposed by the American Price Standard, making billions and after paying the stores that sell them such as K-Mart, Target, etc., and the rest goes to the bastard companies who are in China where a third goes as taxes to the Chinese. No wonder China now has the best military, dressed so much better than the rest of the world’s militaries. And the stupid Yankees allow all this by continuing to buy Chinese made products while their country’s economy is collapsing. WTF really? This is un-American.
I have every reason why I’ve said humans have a sick insanity streak these days.
Edi wow!
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Mick Carson
Your reasons are self-serving, self-fulfilling, and short sighted. More people are doing more amazing things today than ever before and if you deny that, then, well you’re not paying attention or you’re too stubborn to. Regarding your questions, if you spent anytime reading some of the posts in this collection, you’d already have your answers, but I’ll humor you:
“I mean how can they be so sure their belonings or whatever they have sent or will receive are being delivered safely without any risk of thieving or damage?”
That’s easy. Insurance. I would trust this over the handling of my packages by UPS and FedEx drivers any day. Have you seen how they handle your packages?
“How can they be so sure this system is going to work without risk of people kicking them off the paths or cars won’t crush them?”
Again. Insurance. Also, as self-driving cars become more ubiquitous, those same sensors will be used to avoid confrontation with other devices and people. It will be safer than humans delivering, and it will be safer than humans driving. As far as people kicking them and whatnot, they will. But, again, sensors on the delivery devices will know who did it. And yeah, I’m ok with that.
“And lastly, how are they going to pay for delivery, including bills, mortgages, car finances, insurance, everyday needs, food, clothing, school fees and books, etc., when there are no jobs because of all this automation, all this replacement of oeople to robots, electrification and autonomous vehicles, etc.?”
Also easy. A mix of universal basic income based on taxing the robots. If a company wants to employ robots, tax them, as Bill Gates proposed last month, use that money for the UBI programs. Also, pay people to do the things that help make society more robust – taking care of their children, being involved in their communities, starting urban gardens for local produce, capitalizing on their hobbies, starting new businesses with their new free time, getting paid for their philanthropic actions, etc etc. All the things we do that we don’t get paid for that we wish we did and that would make society better, happier and more productive as a whole. As far as mortgage payments, our houses will soon be 3d printed (which is already happening) for less than 1/5 the cost of what it costs to build now. As far as cars, we will soon not need to own cars, they will be something along the lines of self-driving vehicle networks that we can hail on will through an app. Remember the Jetsons? Yeah, something like that (Tesla, Uber, Google and Amazon are already working on those). Food costs are going to drop exponentially as more urban, local, and vertical farms begin to fill urban areas as they are in China, Singapore, across Europe, and throughout cities in the U.S. Etc etc etc. You’re looking at the world through the eyes of today, not the eyes of tomorrow. And if you refuse to look at the eyes of tomorrow, well, that’s not our problem, that’s a reckoning you’ll have to have with evolution.
Oh…and I’d appreciate if you kept your political rants to either yourself or a political collection. Whether I agree with you or not, this collection is an escape from that nonsense and a reminder of the cool and rad things people are doing around the world and I have no problems blocking or muting people to keep it that way. This is not a political collection nor will I ever allow it to be. Believe you me, there are plenty others that will gladly entertain that content. This is not one of them.
Wasim Muklashy A lot of this is true. A few years ago my local news reported on self driving big rigs/18 wheelers with a camera and a sensor on another rig driving in front. Our local news also reported on the vertical gardens. I still think the gardens are an awesome idea; expecially in cities like Houston, Dallas, and larger.
Hillary Weech Oh yes, it’s amazing, that big rig was a Samsung one if I remember right, which was incredible. And there are now 3 fleets of rigs crossing the country. And the vertical and urban gardens are incredible. They are currently designing entire communities in dense populated cities where all of their food needs are within that community, so entire floors of high rises are dedicated to gardens, eliminating the need for trucking things across country, putting less stress on the roads, the environment, and increasing efficiency exponentially. I think actually Dallas is working on one as well, or maybe it was Austin, it’s hard to keep up, but the localized structures of resources are a growing, and necessary trend. And it gives people a chance to connect with their food and use it as a source of pride. It really is incredible what’s happening around the world as we crowd-source our information, resources, knowledge and ideas. Personally, I feel like, for the first time ever, we the people are playing an active role in designing the most awesome world we’ve ever known, and that’s exciting to me!
Wasim Muklashy
I totally disagree with you if you believe insurances are your protectors. You simply have no idea on the whole subject on what I was referring about.
Sure, insurances are there to protect your loss if any of these parcels go missing or are stolen.
Before this crazy idea of having little toys to deliver parcels we have had delivery people to deliver goods to your door and whoever sent the parcels had to pay a little fee for insurance purpose but being delivered by an employed person we had trust.
However it the parcel is being sent by a small robot whose only job is to deliver the parcel without protection from prying eyes and vandalism, chances are that sort of delivery is considered risky and due to that, the insurance payment is certainly greater that the payments of when the delivery is done by a trusted transport employee. In other words, I am not going to pay higher insurance of $25-50 or $100 for something that is delivered by a defenceless robot traveling all the way from the depot and the receiver. Bad enough paying insurance money as it has always been each time I post a parcel but at least I can be sure it is an employed person who delivers it, I can also be confident that my parcel will be in the safe hands of a responsible human being who protects it right till it reaches its destination, from depot to vehicle and from vehicle to address, secure and without risks.
Let’s say you have an old working gold grandad’ watch and want to send it to your son living somewhere else in the States. You pack and address it carefully and then you go to post it, paid the fees and go home relaxed. After a couple of weeks you didn’t hear from your son, you panic. Has your son received the package? You call him and ask, and he says no.
You call the parcel depot and receive the bad news that your parcel had been delivered by a robot in Virginia and the robot has been attacked and sabotaged by vandals or thieves and the parcel is lost. Sure, you get compensated through the insurance company but you will never get your grandad’s watch back, not if you offer a hefty amount of money to have it back. So, you can kiss goodbye to the watch and the memories with it.
Paying high insurance is nothing when compared with a priceless family memento. Once it’s stolen, it’s stolen.
Best way to avoid losing such family mementos is to drive all the way to your son’s address in Virginia and give it to him in person.
But, how many people are now falling in this scam of using robots to deliver parcels and pay higher insurance costs that would make insurance companies super-rich and if something needs to be compensated that’s the only time they have to fork out a few measly $$$$ while they have billions?
You think about it before you want to talk further shit because I worked with Australia Post for many years and know the risks associated with parcel tampering, so to speak.
Mick Carson Ok fine. You win.
I feel so sorry for people who are scammed everyday by greedy pigs, mainly insurance companies.
For example. If you paid insurance money for a parcel delivery and then the parcel reaches its destination uninterrupted and undamaged, do you get your insurance money back? No. So, where does that money go? Straight in their coffers.
It should be the other way around. Pay for the delivery insurance and when the parcel reaches its destination the money should be refunded, at least 50% of the cost should be reinbursed. But no, the rich gets richer and the poor poorer.
Wasim Muklashy
No offence taken, Wasim.
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