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    That’s because it’s built to travel on roadways and bike lanes, leaving its fellow sidewalk crawlers in the dust.

    This is a pretty concerning detail buried near the end. How safe is it to bikers to be sharing space with these kinds of things? And if they become more common, what stops them from crowding out the space entirely?

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        I wonder what the legal ramifications of pushing one over would be

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          You can rest assured corpos will have laws on the books to protect their property. Don’t be surprised if this property becomes an extension of their “person” and attempted murder or manslaughter charges are a possibility.

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      It’s around 5 feet tall, 3 feet wide, and 350 pounds… No matter the safety mesures that thing should not be sharing a espace with what could be an 80 pound kid on rollerblades with a heltmet.

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    Shit. Robot’s got hustle. Get it little guy. ACAB. Fuck them cops, get that paper.

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    If that had been a person who refused orders to leave the scene they would’ve been manhandled to the ground and arrested at best. Delivery robot was treated with more respect by the police than an actual human.

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    Next time SWAT has me barricaded in I’m gonna have to remember to just start ordering as much delivery as possible. The humming sound you can’t hear but feel in your fillings is the infrasound from an approaching Amazon drone swarm delivering the 1000 lead dildos I Next Half Hour ordered.

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    Good thing it wasn’t dog shaped or the cops would have shot it.

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    >A huge DoorDash box truck rolled up to take it away, with an employee seen on camera appearing to manually pilot it towards the truck’s rear.

    Bake him away, toys!