Panfilo posted:

Because teenagers would be kicking them over to get at their soft pizza innards.

suck my woke dick posted:

But why not electrify them or install self defense tasers...

Panfilo posted:

Because teenagers would be kicking them over to get at their soft pizza innards.

VideoGameVet posted:

EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!

VideoGameVet posted:

Oh wait ...

VideoGameVet posted:

Oh wait ...

suck my woke dick posted:

This was a solved problem in the late 80s, how did they manage to gently caress that up today

Help Im Alive posted:

Metal Gears should be delivering pizza IMO

Help Im Alive posted:

Metal Gears should be delivering pizza IMO

mastershakeman posted:

via stealth equipped railgun

T-man posted:

Would watch that anime tbh.

Barudak posted:

The autonomous pizza delivery vehicle is flipped over, but youre not helping. Why arent you helping?

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The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallowed subcategory. He's got esprit up to here. Right now, he is preparing to carry out his third mission of the night. His uniform is black as activated charcoal, filtering the very light out of the air. A bullet will bounce off its arachnofiber weave like a wren hitting a patio door, but excess perspiration wafts through it like a breeze through a freshly napalmed forest. Where his body has bony extremities, the suit has sintered armorgel: feels like gritty jello, protects like a stack of telephone books.

When they gave him the job, they gave him a gun. The Deliverator never deals in cash, but someone might come after him anyway-might want his car, or his cargo. The gun is tiny, aero-styled, lightweight, the kind of a gun a fashion designer would carry; it fires teensy darts that fly at five times the velocity of an SR-71 spy plane, and when you get done using it, you have to plug it into the cigarette lighter, because it runs on electricity.

The Deliverator never pulled that gun in anger, or in fear. He pulled it once in Gila Highlands. Some punks in Gila Highlands, a fancy Burbclave, wanted themselves a delivery, and they didn't want to pay for it. Thought they would impress the Deliverator with a baseball bat. The Deliverator took out his gun, centered its laser doohickey on that poised Louisville Slugger, fired it. The recoil was immense, as though the weapon had blown up in his hand. The middle third of the baseball bat turned into a column of burning sawdust accelerating in all directions like a bursting star. Punk ended up holding this bat handle with milky smoke pouring out the end. Stupid look on his face. Didn't get nothing but trouble from the Deliverator.

Since then the Deliverator has kept the gun in the glove compartment and relied, instead, on a matched set of samurai swords, which have always been his weapon of choice anyhow. The punks in Gila Highlands weren't afraid of the gun, so the Deliverator was forced to use it. But swords need no demonstrations.

The Deliverator's car has enough potential energy packed into its batteries to fire a pound of bacon into the asteroid Belt. Unlike a bimbo box or a Burb beater, the Deliverator's car unloads that power through gaping, gleaming, polished sphincters. When the Deiverator puts the hammer down, poo poo happens. You want to talk contact patches? Your car's tires have tiny contact patches, talk to the thee asphalt in four places the size of your tongue. The De liverator's erator's car has big sticky tires with contact patches the size of a fat lady's thighs. The Deliverator is in touch with the road, starts like a bad day, stops on a peseta.

Barudak posted:

<terminator frantically searching through the phonebook for Sarah Connors adress so he can deliver her pizza before it gets cold>

Spazzle posted:

quote:

Lowe was giving the keynote at the Entertainment Finance Forum; his talk was entitled “Data is the New Oil: How will MoviePass Monetize It?” Media Play News first reported his remarks.

“We get an enormous amount of information,” Lowe continued. “We watch how you drive from home to the movies. We watch where you go afterwards.”

Doggles posted:

quote:

Data is the New Oil

a foolish pianist posted:

Domino's is expanding it's autonomous vehicle pizza delivery beyond Ann Arbor now:

http://www.mlive.com/business/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2018/03/dominos_pizza_expanding_self-d.html


I know this thread thinks autonomous vehicles are somewhere between 50 years off and completely impossible, but they've been working pretty well in test environments. Like the article says, autonomous pizza delivery has been working in Ann Arbor for a while already.

quote:

The vehicle is occupied by a Ford safety engineer

Avenging_Mikon posted:

Snow Crash was ridiculous. Great fun when I was 14 though.

uggy posted:

Still great at 28 the book is wonderful

Owlofcreamcheese posted:

It's weird to see you specifically trying to counter something as a techno fantasy stunt with some claim they would be better off doing something like 500x more fantastical.

Arsenic Lupin posted:

"Crypto" means cryptography, and this is a hill I will die on.

Arsenic Lupin posted:

"Crypto" means cryptography, and this is a hill I will die on.

cowofwar posted:

Uber has invented trains.

https://beta.techcrunch.com/2018/03/06/uber-self-driving-trucks-are-now-moving-cargo-for-uber-freight-customers/

quote:

How it works is that Uber will load up the freight on a conventional, human driven truck who collects the load from the shipper and then does a short haul run to a transfer hub. The short haul truck then loads its cargo onto a long-haul freight transport, which is autonomous for the purposes of these trips. That self-driving test truck handles the highway driving for the longer portion of the trip, handing it off once again to a human-driven trip for the short haul cap to the overall journey.

Paradoxish posted:

....
Edit- Coincidentally, long haul trucking is actually a job we should want to see automated. It sucks and no one really wants to do it.

cowofwar posted:

Uber has invented trains.

https://beta.techcrunch.com/2018/03/06/uber-self-driving-trucks-are-now-moving-cargo-for-uber-freight-customers/

quote:

Uber Freight handles the load sourcing, just as it dos for connecting shippers with regular human truckers. Uber’s Advanced Technology Group is simply deploying its self-driving trucks on the Uber Freight platform, in the same way that the autonomous team within Uber is using the Uber ride-hailing network to test and deploy its self-driving ride share vehicles.

Uber has a video depicting this journey, which took place staring in then midwest and then via short haul to Sanders, Arizona, where it was loaded onto an autonomous truck and then transferred to Topock, Arizona, where it made the switch to another human-driven vehicle.

This is a big step towards commercialization of Uber’s autonomous truck tech, and it seems like it puts it ahead of some competitors who want to do similar things, including Embark trucking. It’s also the first we’ve heard about Uber’s self-driving truck business in a little while, so it’s good to see Uber’s continuing to make progress and devote attention to this issue.

Paradoxish posted:

I mean, I get what you're saying, but also not really.


It's not a train just because you have something like drayage going on. You've still got individual trucks transporting goods over regular highways. It's not like regular shipping always involves a single, human driven truck going from origin to final destination.

Edit- Coincidentally, long haul trucking is actually a job we should want to see automated. It sucks and no one really wants to do it.

Arsenic Lupin posted:

"Crypto" means cryptography, and this is a hill I will die on.

BENGHAZI 2 posted:

oocc do the school districts you work for know about your stance re trying to getpics out of kids

Owlofcreamcheese posted:

It's referencing the stanford marshmallow experiment. That "you can have one candy now, or a bunch of candy in little while" thing where before a certain age every kid takes the bad deal and most people eventually grow up and take the better deal.

Kids that grow up in stable and predictable environments learn to pre-plan early, people that grow up in unstable unpredictable environments (extreme poverty) don't learn to plan as young or as well. White kids tend to score high on it because they on average have the most stable environments provided for them. Racists make this into "whites are best" idea where it's inherent and not just another subtle privilege being white gets you.