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Re:Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery S... by silverquiet on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @01:54PM (#39908754)
I often wonder how much human intervention goes into self-driving car fleets.
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Re:Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery S... by leviathan303 on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @02:23PM (#39909119)
2-4% of the time according to the former Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt in a Hacker News comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38145997

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Re:Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery S... by BitwiseFool on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @01:57PM (#39908792)
That reminds me of this, https://xkcd.com/1897/ perhaps it was based on something after all.
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Re:Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery S... by fsckboy on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @02:24PM (#39909134)
those grocery delivery robots you see in LA, turns out are being monitored/operated by people in a central location with all their camera feeds.
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