literally hellworld.

In the future bicyclists who get killed by cars won’t get the “didn’t even wear a helmet” treatment but it will be “didn’t even care for their life because they weren’t wearing the tesla collar beacon”. For pedestrians as well…

Beaconization—or equipping bicycles and pedestrians with transponder beacons that can be spotted automatically by sensor-equipped cars—has been given the official seal of approval in the U.S. […]

  • @bloesem
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    132 years ago

    This is so incredibly dumb. Just build proper bike lines.

  • Sr Estegosaurio
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    82 years ago

    I will love to see some random person completely distroying the system the day that it goes public

  • bruhbeans
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    72 years ago

    Sounds like fun to clone and place … fucking everywhere.

  • @AgreeableLandscape
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    2 years ago

    Self driving cars: Supposedly orders of magnitudes smarter than human drivers.

    Also self driving cars: Can’t see a person on a bike without outside help.

  • @xbpssuperiortopacman
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    2 years ago

    Once people realise that you can buy a bunch of these and throw them in the road, they will disappear

    e: typo

  • @leanleft
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    42 years ago

    mixed feelings.
    bad just because opt-in becomes the expected norm.