Serve Robotics, which delivers food for Uber Eats, provided footage filmed by at least one of its robots to the LAPD as evidence in a criminal case. The emails show the robots, which are a constant sight in the city, can be used for surveillance.
What a stupid move by these companies. If food delivery robots get viewed as robocops by a population that hates the cops it will effectively destroy their business. They will be destroyed on sight.
Tipping over a delivery car or burning the ones that come through certain neighbourhoods is very different compared to ring cameras that risk confrontation with a home owner. Even here in the UK I could see cart tipping become a fun sport bored kids could get into like cow tipping.
What a stupid move by these companies. If food delivery robots get viewed as robocops by a population that hates the cops it will effectively destroy their business. They will be destroyed on sight.
Ring and other video doorbells have been happily sending information to police for years without any public outcry.
I think you overestimate the number of fucks the average person will give.
Tipping over a delivery car or burning the ones that come through certain neighbourhoods is very different compared to ring cameras that risk confrontation with a home owner. Even here in the UK I could see cart tipping become a fun sport bored kids could get into like cow tipping.
Ethical cow tipping
If it showed up in a couple videogames and it would totally catch on.
ring doorbells are the personal property of gun wielding psychos, a pizza delivery bot’s owner generally can’t retaliate