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I want to know what they were thinking. "Alright, 10cm of snow ... send out the bots that are completely unfit for these conditions!" While questionable consid

I want to know what they were thinking. "Alright, 10cm of snow ... send out the bots that are completely unfit for these conditions!" While questionable considering the location, of course it's fine to not design them to work in snow. What baffles me is that they didn't design them to work in snow and sent them into the snow. Considering that it's a lot of them in a bunch I can imagine that the bots had just started from their garage. Maybe this was some internal test? I can't imagine somebody consciously decided to let these things go through snow and operate normally. And surely there's that amount of human oversight ...

tdrdt 5y ago
Maybe the snow came by surprise. There have been a lot of sudden snow lately. In the UK 50 people were stuck in a bar and I believe in Denmark people had to stay the night in IKEA. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/28/world/europe/england-pub-snow-storm.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/28/world/europe/england-pub-... https://metro.co.uk/2021/12/03/shoppers-snowed-in-at-denmark-ikea-are-forced-to-sleep-in-stores-beds-15707354/ https://metro.co.uk/2021/12/03/shoppers-snowed-in-at-denmark...
- iso1631 5y ago
  That snow wasn't unexpected, people went to the inn fully knowing there was a high chance of being stuck there, same happens at places like the Cat and Filddle, or Kirkstone Pass
- Strom 5y ago
  There was rapid snowfall today, but certainly not a surprise. The local media has been warning about a snowstorm for about a week. Also, most of the snowfall happened during the night, so it was almost all there by the morning.
jazzyjackson 5y ago
maybe the sidewalks were plowed up till this neglected stretch (just a guess)
aaron695 5y ago
> I want to know what they were thinking. I think any hacker would be, fuck yes lets see what happens? Isn't that the difference between a nerd and a hacker, nerds are nerds, hackers try cool new things? But I think they are built for the snow anyway. There are other videos, here's were one was taken out for half a hour by a kid throwing a snow ball - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yotkHS5JDvc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yotkHS5JDvc (And spoiler the 'thank you' will not be autonomous)

tdrdt 5y ago

Maybe the snow came by surprise. There have been a lot of sudden snow lately. In the UK 50 people were stuck in a bar and I believe in Denmark people had to stay the night in IKEA. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/28/world/europe/england-pub-snow-storm.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/28/world/europe/england-pub-... https://metro.co.uk/2021/12/03/shoppers-snowed-in-at-denmark-ikea-are-forced-to-sleep-in-stores-beds-15707354/ https://metro.co.uk/2021/12/03/shoppers-snowed-in-at-denmark...

iso1631 5y ago
That snow wasn't unexpected, people went to the inn fully knowing there was a high chance of being stuck there, same happens at places like the Cat and Filddle, or Kirkstone Pass
Strom 5y ago
There was rapid snowfall today, but certainly not a surprise. The local media has been warning about a snowstorm for about a week. Also, most of the snowfall happened during the night, so it was almost all there by the morning.

jazzyjackson 5y ago

maybe the sidewalks were plowed up till this neglected stretch (just a guess)

aaron695 5y ago

> I want to know what they were thinking. I think any hacker would be, fuck yes lets see what happens? Isn't that the difference between a nerd and a hacker, nerds are nerds, hackers try cool new things? But I think they are built for the snow anyway. There are other videos, here's were one was taken out for half a hour by a kid throwing a snow ball - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yotkHS5JDvc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yotkHS5JDvc (And spoiler the 'thank you' will not be autonomous)