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Re:The Waymo World Model: A New Frontier for Autonomous Driv... by themafia on Friday February 06, 2026 @01:58PM (#46916679)
It's a 3500lb robot that can kill you.

Boston Robotics is working on a smaller robot that can kill you.

Anduril is working on even smaller robots that can kill you.

The future sucks.

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Re:The Waymo World Model: A New Frontier for Autonomous Driv... by zzzeek on Friday February 06, 2026 @02:17PM (#46916929)
and they're all controlled by (poorly compensated) humans anyway [1] [2]

[1] https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/i-tried-the-robot-tha...

[2] https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/waymos-controlled-wo...

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Re:The Waymo World Model: A New Frontier for Autonomous Driv... by themafia on Friday February 06, 2026 @03:50PM (#46917957)
They couldn't even make burger flipping robots work and are paying fast food workers $20/hr in California.

If that doesn't make it obvious what they can and cannot do then I can't respect the tranche of "hackers" who blindly cheer on this unchecked corporate dystopian nightmare.

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Re:The Waymo World Model: A New Frontier for Autonomous Driv... by MisterMower on Sunday February 08, 2026 @12:15AM (#46931517)
They can totally make it work, it’s just currently cheaper to have humans do it.

Solving the technical challenges and using that solution profitably are two completely different things.

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