Posted on 03/05/2017 8:52:36 AM PST by brucedickinson
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Virginia has made robotics history. The commonwealth is the first state to pass legislation allowing delivery robots to operate on sidewalks and crosswalks across the state.
The new law goes into effect on July 1 and was signed into law by the governor last Friday.
The two Virginia lawmakers who sponsored the bill, Ron Villanueva and Bill DeSteph, teamed up with Starship Technologies, an Estonian-based ground delivery robotics company, to draft the legislation.
Robots operating under the new law won’t be able to exceed ten miles per hour or weigh over 50 pounds, but they will be allowed to rove autonomously.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
I can see the headlines now, “Robot Mugged”
Might want to get insurance in case of an attack by them;
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/old-glory-insurance/n10766?snl=1
Hopefully not Daleks.
More like company getting sued because the dog injured himself attacking the machine. Dogs are scared of machines, at least that is what movies say.
Exactly, these people are insane. I use to make deliveries for over 20 years working for companies like Fedex, Poland spring, food companies, in New York city. EVERY single stop I had to lock my truck up tighter than a drum, because if ANY door, any latch was left open, they would steal everything they could get their hands on. I even had my handtruck stolen once. I brought it to the top of the stairs from a cellar underneath a store, left it on the sidewalk then went back down to bring up a box and when I got to the top again it was gone all in the span of 20 seconds. THEY STEAL EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING! There are so many thieves in New York city I did a little test once about 10 years ago walking through Grand Central station. I had a backpack on and this old wallet I was going to throw out. But instead of throwing it out, I wanted to see what would happen if I put the wallet in this netting that hung from my backpack. So I put it in there where it was visible. Can you believe in the time it took from exiting the subway car, going up the stairs and out to 42nd street it was gone, not even 5 minutes. These mofos are ALL over the place!
this is how it starts. First an Amazon LED flashlight for $3.99/free shipping, and then the effing Daleks. no one ever listens to me
I wonder when the first robot will be arrested for B&E ?
Or when the first robot pizza delivery is directed to an empty lot and the robot get’s stolen.
“Virginia is the first state to pass a law allowing robots to deliver straight to your door”
Isn’t this discriminatory? What about the non-straight robots?
Oh my god, could you imagine robots full of goodies rolling down a New York Street? HAHAHAHHAHA
We’ve had robots doing deliveries in Ohio for years. I saw several of them last fall delivering Hillary lit.
Or the robot cuts someone in half with its pizza warming laser that goes amok?
Shhhhhhh.....
The Daleks are listening.
>>Oh my god, could you imagine robots full of goodies rolling down a New York Street? HAHAHAHHAHA
Other posts mention Daleks, but these robots will have to be Daleks if they are used in the cities.
Which, come to think if it. isn’t such a bad idea. Robot to cop: “I feared for my life, so I had to...EXTERMINATE.”
I can’t wait until it snows.
You ever see this video? This is New York city, an armored truck with two guys making deliveries. While one guy made the delivery, the other guy stayed behind to guard the truck. And look what happens when he turns his back for a few seconds......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9aDSRufG7g
They caught the guy a few weeks ago, no surprise he’s an illegal who’s “been arrested seven times and deported four times.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/nyregion/gold-flake-theft-robbery.html?_r=0
On the other hand, note that the feds cannot make such a law because the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to regulate INTRAstate robotics.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
And speaking of intrastate robotics, the feds are already trying to win votes concerning robots as evidenced by talk about regulating drones which they have no express constitutional authority to address imo.
In fact, note that James Madison and Thomas Jefferson had warned patriots to be vigilant with respect to the federal government unconstitutionally expanding its powers in subtle ways, this politically correct endangered species issue a good example of such expansion imo.
”I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” —James Madison, Speech at the Virginia Convention to ratify the Federal Constitution (1788-06-06)
”To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition.” —Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson's Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank : 1791
”The system of the General Government is to seize all doubtful ground. We must join in the scramble, or get nothing. Where first occupancy is to give right, he who lies still loses all.” —Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1797.
Oh man, I’d be leaving things like those Christmas cookie tins with the lid superglued on filled with rebar scrap and a fat dump ;-). The thought of some douchebag struggling to get that thing open to the heavy riches within only to fine shit covered scrap brings a chuckle to me...
Have you ever seen one react to a vacuum cleaner?
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