Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2017/12/07/san-francisco-put-the-kibosh-o.html
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Razor-sharp spinning blade attachments should work to keep the sidewalks clear for these. I also think it would be nice if they had festive holiday lights for deliveries this time of year.
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Looks like a Rascal elder-folk scooter with some arduino vision system and GPS mapping and some homegrown collision avoidance software. Can’t see how it would make money, but maybe after a few cycles of Moore’s Law?
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Wow, I bummed out about this.
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You know, the Streets of San Francisco aren’t crowded, chaotic, and treacherous enough… I mean, some of the hills are so significant, they have stairs built into them. No, what they would use are some giant fucking robots.
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It looks like a pint-sized Zamboni, and with San Francisco not being a hockey town, no wonder they turned it down.
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Why do I get the feeling that it will just beep incessantly – like a forklift backing up – all the time…
“Thou shalt not make a machine that beeps at a human.” – the Orange Catholic Bible
(Or at least that should be one of the commandments in there.)
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eventually…
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Pity. Someone could have remade the chase scene from Bullit with a couple of those.
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Worker’s comp for machines? Why not office supplies while you’re at it? Free the blue mailboxes!
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Hmm… Little rolling boxes that everyone knows are filled with something worth delivering…
Nah, I can’t imagine that anyone with a crowbar to pry doors open would ever target these…
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I’m wondering what happens if you throw a blanket over one of these? Okay, they have GPS, how about a space blanket?
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A jumbo chip bag.
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YES! I immediately thought of the same. Will these new robots help restore star charts?
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WHILE ‘Company Name’ thinks delivery robots are a good idea DO
Push delivery robot over on its side;
Crowbar it open;
Steal its contents;
END WHILE
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There’s an important issue here that you’re all missing: how to pronounce the word ‘kibosh’?
I’ve noticed it becoming more popular in American discourse lately, but with a variant pronunciation to what I’m used to. The way I’ve always heard it in Blighty is with a long ‘aye’ sound and stress in the first syllable — “KY-bosh”. But I’m hearing it lately on YouTube and US news reports with a short ‘i’ sound and no stress — “kib-osh”.
Clearly, the new pronunciation is wrong </irony>, but equally clearly the US will dominate and pretty soon everybody will be saying “kib-bosh” and looking at me funny for pronouncing it the way I’ve always heard it up to now.
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(Yes, I know they can levitate now.)
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Daleks Do Not Climb Stairs, They Level Buildings!
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