Yer in one
It’s hard for me to believe this strictly because A) those things are fucking expensive, and B) aren’t they like …hella fucking fast??
They are not that fast. At least none that I’ve seen. I’d say they go like 10mph tops.
Quadcopters would be more efficient financially and more reliable. Probably faster too.
I was expecting this from quadcopters. I’d have thought they’d be more difficult to catch
Yeah but this was also advertising the service, a quadrocopter wouldn’t do that as good. If anything I’m surprised they are just sacrificing the robo dog considering how expensive those are.
Once the cops find it, there’s no stakeout-proof way to recover it.
The dog was a decoy
Bump, Ubu, bump. Good dog.
OK that’ll be a discrete $50 handshake please… OK so just walk to that corner and wait. There will be a dog…
Untraceable drug delivery? Sign me up
Trivially traceable. Just follow the dog (discretely).
Ugh, I hate those missions.
This is EXACTLY the type of thing I expected from a cyberpunk dystopia
Right? Like did the creator of this image think more policing is less dystopian?
Militarized police, criminal syndicates using robots that destroy evidence when caught, to smuggle drugs, I don’t think this person knows what cyberpunk is
That’s awesome, I love drug dealing robo-dogs
That’s odd.
I think most of the time they just use dead drops, it’s much safer.Courier sticks drugs to a tree, walks away, sends a geo location of a drop to a buyer. Done.
Druggie just has to geolocate it, never meet in person.
What happened to the good old days when you got into the back of a car with a shady guy?
Thats for like 100 or less. Or for really risky dealers.
100 what? USD? If so, I used to routinely buy around that amount back when I was a cokehead and I still did it by getting in the back of the car. Perhaps it’s just different cultures. I can’t even imagine myself picking drugs from a tree (?)
HOW GET MONEY?
Paypal? Venmo? Monzo? Or in other words, with great ease…
I’d be uneasy with electronically transferring funds for illicit drugs, cash seems wiser.
How does the dealer get the cash without potentially exposing their location?
To be honest I’m more worried because of Moscow than any robot dog.
Why?
Remember to tip your police officer and you’ll be fine.
Russian military has a pretty cool weapon. Armoured minitank packed with explosives that drives into buildings and then detonates. It is usually accompanied by a small camera air drone that provides visual info, on where to drive the minitank, or at least is there to show off the destruction.
That is a higher level of dystopia. But, self driving food delivery mini vehicle technology will become a tool of the resistance to the genocidal extermination of unneeded labour pool.
But production of drones takes about 18 years
Im actually amazed that while we supposedly have robo dogs we still have photos so blurry that you cant see shit.
I mean it’s just matter of priority I suppose, if something is relatively cheap and effective there’s no need to invest into 4k or higher quality cameras. Especially when you don’t have the storage for a week of footage or few days that loop over each other. But that’s just my assumption, if 4k becomes the norm and storage gets bigger and cheaper we might see good quality security footage.
If 4k becomes the norm?
Where have you been living mate?
Counterpoint: 4k camera modules are getting rapidly cheaper, it’s standard in cell phones now. Gyroscope modules used to be crazy expensive, then Nintendo ordered 400 million of them for the Wii.
Gyroscope modules used to be crazy expensive, then Nintendo ordered 400 million of them for the Wii.
Those are different gyroscopes. Big spinning disk != MEMS gyro.
In this case the dystopia is the prohibition and storm troopers, not the robot dog.
Storm troopers you say?
This is why god invented automatic grenade launchers
Reminds me of this meme
The 3 industries that will always have the money and be on the forefront of innovation:
- Military
- Drugs
- Porn
not so much if we’d legalize drugs.
Something something big pharma…
Oh trust me… They would still have the money.
- Ads
This is exactly the Cyberpunk we expected. Cyberpunk has never been shy about being a dystopia.
Practically the definition of the genre. It’s not typically “punk” if it’s a glistening utopia.
Using robots to do conduct black market trade under the nose of the police sounds extremely punk.
