Robbing Delivery Robots Is Now a Thing

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Robbing Delivery Robots Is Now a Thing
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Fix poverty and you fix a huge amount of other things.

Ok sure, but have we considered arming the robots with assault rifles instead?

The article mentioned tear gas canisters be equipped instead. I can't wait for a delivery robot to be near my property, someone tries to mess with it and gets gassed, then I get to enjoy tear gas as well from my front porch.

Or some kid walks past it, bumps it slightly and gets gassed in the face.

I'm assuming the canisters would only be released if the door is forced open. I highly doubt it's going to activate a few slightly knock it I mean hell, those things drive into lamp posts on occasion.

With the care and attention tech companies give to the safety of their devices, I can definitely see it spraying someone unintended. Probably even the person it was delivering to. Any company sensible enough to properly implement this likely will finder better less potentially dangerous solutions to the problem. This idea stinks of someone who gave it 5 minutes of thought and wants it implemented as quickly as possible.

Surely area of effect weaponry would be better.

The higher collateral impact just serves as an extra lesson to any wannabe thieves.

If we’re all not living in survival mode, why would people work? /s

Making people self sustainable is a good way to fix poverty but the state actively works against that.

How's that related? A criminal is a criminal, their wealth is irrelevant.

Because fixing poverty lowers criminality.

Ahaha! Right, sure!

Good point. It's the poorest cities and neighborhoods that have the lowest crime rate. Forgot about that, thanks for educating.

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TIL there’s people who don’t know that petty crime increases with poverty.

I have been made aware of some dumb groups of people in my time on the internet. But this one is up near the top.

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Interesting hand to play: stealing food from a robot is equivalent to any severity of criminal act. Let's talk again after licking some more of that trippy boot.

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