Oberlindes Sol LIC  | 03 Apr 2020 7:17 p.m. PST |
A police robot has been deployed to patrol areas of Tunisia's capital, Tunis, to ensure that people are observing a coronavirus lockdown.If it spies anyone walking in the largely deserted streets, it approaches them and asks why they are out.
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What could possibly go wrong? |
| Stryderg | 03 Apr 2020 8:39 p.m. PST |
I welcome our new robot overlords! |
| Prince Rupert of the Rhine | 04 Apr 2020 3:47 a.m. PST |
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| JimDuncanUK | 04 Apr 2020 4:38 a.m. PST |
What could possibly go wrong? It is driven by a human being, it is not autonomous. |
| Frederick | 04 Apr 2020 7:29 a.m. PST |
They had a similar thing at La Guardia a couple of years ago link |
| Thresher01 | 04 Apr 2020 11:53 a.m. PST |
Supposedly, the Chinese were doing the same thing with aerial drones which had a speaker attached to them, so those out and about could be warned to go back inside. |
 Parzival | 04 Apr 2020 1:14 p.m. PST |
Bit of waste of effort. If someone is alone outside, they really aren't an effective threat to anyone. The main threat such a person poses is potentially contaminating a surface someone else touches. Walking around in an empty street or sidewalk, not so much. As long as they do not approach within coughing or sneezing distance of someone else, and go back inside the building from which they came out, the likelihood they'll transmit or catch this virus (or any virus) is very low. The bigger problem is their path within the building itself. Taking an elevator contaminates the elevator (the air and the buttons). Touching the door handles contaminates the handles, and so on. And, or course, the person risks being contaminated by the same surfaces.
But outside? The robot is probably more a threat of contamination to the person than the person is to the rest of the city! |
| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 04 Apr 2020 1:37 p.m. PST |
I think Parzival makes very good points! And, as JimDuncanUK points out, it is really not a robot. It's a remotely-piloted vehicle, which is a lot less dangerous. |
| Mark Plant | 04 Apr 2020 7:43 p.m. PST |
Some countries are far more worried about their citizens health to the rulers than their citizen's health. Hence autocratic regimes really go the whole hog in lockdown. |
| Eclectic Wave | 06 Apr 2020 12:28 p.m. PST |
And a as joke someone in England, someone sent a Dalak down the road, telling everyone to stay in side, by order of the DALAKS! link |
| JimDuncanUK | 07 Apr 2020 4:07 p.m. PST |
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rides to the rescue.
