Food delivery robots are struggling to steer clear of Chicago’s bus stop shelters. Within just 48 hours, two autonomous couriers from different companies veered off course and collided with shelters shattering glass and alarming nearby residents. These pair of dramatic incidents come amidst brewing tension among community members and lawmakers in Chicago who oppose the robots’ presence. The crashes also come just weeks after one of the manufacturers announced it was integrating a new mapping system trained on “Pokémon Go” data which is designed to improve navigation accuracy.
Does it mean pokémon go players also routinely crash into bus stops?
I have no doubt the training data includes drunk players, so yes!
And kids on heelies swerving all over.
As someone who wore heelies for years. It still angers me deeply how few people who wear them actually know how tp fucking use them well at all.
It’s just the most unathletic kids with no sense of balance barely able to go in a straight like for like 3 feet and run into everything.
Someone who’s actually good with them can move fluidly quickly and stop on a dime. You should NEVER be at risk of running into someone even if your going quickly.
You can literally do a glorified pirouette and disperse your momentum basically in under a quarter of a foot even from the equivalent of a sprint in terms of speed. Drop your toes shift your center of gravity back and slightly towards your dominant foot and spin. You will slide forward slightly while spinning toward the heel of your dominant foot. Your momentum will make it want to shove you down into your foot keeping you planted and prevents you from falling over.
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