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Food Delivery Robots Record Camera Footage to Send to the LAPD

15 points by pmoriarty 3y ago

anigbrowl 3y ago
This is a BS story; the delivery robot company turned over footage to LAPD in a case involving the attempted theft of one of their robots. This is no different from someone with a security camera at their home turning over footage of a burglar.
- sneak 3y ago
  Except that the mobile robots don't take video of their own area, but of the public. A security camera at your home doesn't have wheels.
  - lamroger 3y ago
    interesting though. when will these robots be walking ads like instacart pivoted to. side hustle selling data to ai companies. it's all from public spaces so no one to argue copyright. i'm in LA and the robots are pretty freaking annoying. They take up the whole block. race towards you and slam on the breaks. also can we ban the scooter litter?
  - jjk166 3y ago
    How about turning over my dashcam footage after someone hits my car?
    - chfritz 3y ago
      My point exactly in the original thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3769272 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3769272.
  - anigbrowl 3y ago
    Security cameras can and do point out into the street, adjacent properties etc. And pretty much every cellphone has a camera; I don't see a big qualitative difference between legs and wheels. The point is that the company gave the footage to LAPD because it specifically concerned the theft of their property. Might they also give footage if an unrelated crime that happened in the vicinity of their robots? Perhaps, but that's not what happened here.
  - fargle 3y ago
    as you said: public
- civilitty 3y ago
  > Internal emails obtained by 404 show that during an incident in which two suspects attempted to steal a delivery robot made by the company Serve Robotics, the LAPD got a subpoena that allowed them to obtain camera footage from the robot during its time on the streets. (FTA) They even got a subpoena... for evidence that the victim was ready to give to them! What more can you want?
chfritz 3y ago
This is the third duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3769272 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3769272.
- NullPrefix 3y ago
  are you sure that's the right link?
- chfritz 3y ago
  Sorry, my bad. This https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37692721 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37692721 is the right link.

15 points by pmoriarty 3y ago

This is a BS story; the delivery robot company turned over footage to LAPD in a case involving the attempted theft of one of their robots. This is no different from someone with a security camera at their home turning over footage of a burglar.

sneak 3y ago
Except that the mobile robots don't take video of their own area, but of the public. A security camera at your home doesn't have wheels.
- lamroger 3y ago
  interesting though. when will these robots be walking ads like instacart pivoted to. side hustle selling data to ai companies. it's all from public spaces so no one to argue copyright. i'm in LA and the robots are pretty freaking annoying. They take up the whole block. race towards you and slam on the breaks. also can we ban the scooter litter?
- jjk166 3y ago
  How about turning over my dashcam footage after someone hits my car?
  - chfritz 3y ago
    My point exactly in the original thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3769272 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3769272.
- anigbrowl 3y ago
  Security cameras can and do point out into the street, adjacent properties etc. And pretty much every cellphone has a camera; I don't see a big qualitative difference between legs and wheels. The point is that the company gave the footage to LAPD because it specifically concerned the theft of their property. Might they also give footage if an unrelated crime that happened in the vicinity of their robots? Perhaps, but that's not what happened here.
- fargle 3y ago
  as you said: public
civilitty 3y ago
> Internal emails obtained by 404 show that during an incident in which two suspects attempted to steal a delivery robot made by the company Serve Robotics, the LAPD got a subpoena that allowed them to obtain camera footage from the robot during its time on the streets. (FTA) They even got a subpoena... for evidence that the victim was ready to give to them! What more can you want?

chfritz 3y ago

This is the third duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3769272 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3769272.

NullPrefix 3y ago
are you sure that's the right link?
chfritz 3y ago
Sorry, my bad. This https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37692721 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37692721 is the right link.