
Courtesy of South Africa – which I recall being mentioned in the movie when the “besieged city-state” of Pretoria gets a French-made neutron bomb.
It’s not autonomous – yet – and the next story shows why that might not be a good idea,
Admittedly this AI story is funny, at least if you enjoying laughing at “Liberals” in San Francisco, Self-driving Waymo cars keep SF residents awake all night by honking at each other:
Videos provided by residents to NBC show Waymo cars filing into the parking lot and attempting to back into spots, which seems to trigger honking from other Waymo vehicles. The automatic nature of these interactions—which seem to peak around 4 am every night—has left neighbors bewildered and sleep-deprived.
Since this post is about autonomous robots rather than cyborgs I probably should have put up a picture of ED209, but here’s a GIF instead.