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Offline TomSea

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Virginia is the first state to pass a law allowing robots to deliver straight to your door
« on: March 05, 2017, 01:51:26 am »
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Virginia is the first state to pass a law allowing robots to deliver straight to your door

Idaho and Florida may be next.

Virginia has made robotics history. The commonwealth is the first state to pass legislation allowing delivery robots to operate on sidewalks and crosswalks across the state.

The new law goes into effect on July 1 and was signed into law by the governor last Friday.

The two Virginia lawmakers who sponsored the bill, Ron Villanueva and Bill DeSteph, teamed up with Starship Technologies, an Estonian-based ground delivery robotics company, to draft the legislation.

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Within 10 years, all states should have laws like this.
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Re: Virginia is the first state to pass a law allowing robots to deliver straight to your door
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2017, 02:11:38 am »
Quote from: TomSea on March 05, 2017, 01:51:26 am
Within 10 years, all states should have laws like this.


I think that Illinois will ban them.. Well maybe the City of Chicago..
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Re: Virginia is the first state to pass a law allowing robots to deliver straight to your door
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2017, 02:20:43 am »
In before "What could go wrong?"

Oh, wait...this isn't the Luddite site!
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Re: Virginia is the first state to pass a law allowing robots to deliver straight to your door
« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2017, 02:29:06 am »
Those little robots are going to get stolen
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« Reply #4 on: March 05, 2017, 02:29:58 am »
Quote from: kevindavis on March 05, 2017, 02:11:38 am

I think that Illinois will ban them.. Well maybe the City of Chicago..

These things will have their wheels stolen and have graffiti painted on before they reach the customer in Chicago
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Re: Virginia is the first state to pass a law allowing robots to deliver straight to your door
« Reply #5 on: March 05, 2017, 08:12:30 am »
Quote from: kevindavis on March 05, 2017, 02:11:38 am

I think that Illinois will ban them.. Well maybe the City of Chicago..

Why? They won't be around long enough to ban. But the market for chop shop robot parts will boom.
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Re: Virginia is the first state to pass a law allowing robots to deliver straight to your door
« Reply #6 on: March 05, 2017, 08:18:56 am »
Quote from: Norm Lenhart on March 05, 2017, 08:12:30 am
Why? They won't be around long enough to ban. But the market for chop shop robot parts will boom.

The unions will be the first to demand the blocking of robots from delivering stuff.
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« Reply #7 on: March 05, 2017, 09:07:03 am »
Quote from: DB on March 05, 2017, 08:18:56 am
The unions will be the first to demand the blocking of robots from delivering stuff.
Good point. And stealing them themselves.
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Re: Virginia is the first state to pass a law allowing robots to deliver straight to your door
« Reply #8 on: March 05, 2017, 10:27:18 am »
Does this mean I can get deliveries from Bender, Fry and Leela?

I'd be cool with deliveries from Planet Express. But just Planet Express.

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Re: Virginia is the first state to pass a law allowing robots to deliver straight to your door
« Reply #9 on: March 05, 2017, 10:57:54 am »
Quote from: Suppressed on March 05, 2017, 02:20:43 am
In before "What could go wrong?"

Oh, wait...this isn't the Luddite site!

Will there be hookers?  :0001:
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« Reply #12 on: March 05, 2017, 11:18:59 am »
Quote from: geronl on March 05, 2017, 02:29:06 am
Those little robots are going to get stolen
Oh, good. I'm not the only one who had a 'flash' of one of these up on blocks, stripped down, with the wheels gone...
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« Reply #13 on: March 05, 2017, 11:19:22 am »
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« Reply #14 on: March 05, 2017, 11:26:35 am »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on March 05, 2017, 11:18:59 am
Oh, good. I'm not the only one who had a 'flash' of one of these up on blocks, stripped down, with the wheels gone...

Could be worse.


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« Reply #15 on: March 05, 2017, 11:35:43 am »
Quote from: Cripplecreek on March 05, 2017, 11:26:35 am
Could be worse.

"I just don't understand. He is such a good robot. I know he had had some problems, but he was getting his life together, doing beats for the local church choir. Sure, he'd had that problem with lubricant abuse, but that was all behind him..."
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Re: Virginia is the first state to pass a law allowing robots to deliver straight to your door
« Reply #16 on: March 06, 2017, 02:11:26 am »
Quote from: Norm Lenhart on March 05, 2017, 08:12:30 am
Why? They won't be around long enough to ban. But the market for chop shop robot parts will boom.


The City of Chicago may ban driverless cars in the City.. They almost banned Uber and Lyft.. The Union grip in the City is very strong..
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Re: Virginia is the first state to pass a law allowing robots to deliver straight to your door
« Reply #17 on: March 06, 2017, 03:55:41 am »
Does that include Sexbots? The Japanese, so I hear, have been making rapid progress in the development of same. 
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