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Re:Grumpy Locals Are Sabotaging Cruise and Waymo Robotaxis w... by gretch on Thursday July 06, 2023 @08:31PM (#36625346)
It turns out that it takes a lot of energy to hate/antagonize random stuff going on - you don't get paid and there's no benefit to you. Eventually you just get too busy living your actual life to continue the feud.

Real protests are fueled by real pain, and those don't just peter out because there's refueling every day, not just flavor-of-the-month outrage.

Meanwhile, the entities pushing these advances won't run out of gas because they are making money from real customers who find their service valuable (citation needed admittedly).

Time will tell which of these scenarios it is, but my bet is that people will find these very useful 5 years from now and the rough edges will be sanded down by technological improvement.

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Re:Grumpy Locals Are Sabotaging Cruise and Waymo Robotaxis w... by abracadaniel on Thursday July 06, 2023 @09:01PM (#36625609)
I do wonder why they aren’t all stripped for motors and battery cells though. There should be a bit of incentive for that. Maybe they’re sufficiently difficult to get to without expensive tools?
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Re:Grumpy Locals Are Sabotaging Cruise and Waymo Robotaxis w... by achates on Thursday July 06, 2023 @09:49PM (#36625976)
Yeah I don't get this either. I can't believe a $10 angle grinder from harbor freight wouldn't do the job.
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Re:Grumpy Locals Are Sabotaging Cruise and Waymo Robotaxis w... by bryanlarsen on Thursday July 06, 2023 @11:42PM (#36626824)
A thief would prefer to strip cars without cameras.
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Re:Grumpy Locals Are Sabotaging Cruise and Waymo Robotaxis w... by olyjohn on Friday July 07, 2023 @01:00AM (#36627360)
Who are they gonna sell the motors and battery cells to? The only people interested in them would be a few hobbyists doing some DIY stuff. Not like you can just bolt it into your Honda Civic or run them in your laptop. Maybe once the true Civic of EVs comes out, you'll start to see them getting stripped for parts.
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Re:Grumpy Locals Are Sabotaging Cruise and Waymo Robotaxis w... by rightbyte on Friday July 07, 2023 @03:51PM (#36637415)
A local scooter app rental company said that the turnaround time for their bikes are three months, an insider said 40 days.

So, maybe they are stripped for batteries and parts?

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Re:Grumpy Locals Are Sabotaging Cruise and Waymo Robotaxis w... by htss2013 on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @05:42PM (#36687637)
Why would you strip driverless cars instead of other cars? If anything the driverless ones probably have more counter measures and monitoring.
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Re:Grumpy Locals Are Sabotaging Cruise and Waymo Robotaxis w... by dgacmu on Thursday July 06, 2023 @09:26PM (#36625806)
I believe all of these entities are currently _losing_ money hand over fist, but remain in the game because of the expectation of future profits.
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