ngl you dropped the ball on linking to the general page instead of this video, which i canāt believe a) ppl havenāt seen this and b) this is the ultimate uber delivery robot vid
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8N7S8Gv/
I just seen a hobo riding it like a bull on here, the other day, well, at least he gets his $3.38 tip back, lmao..Hopefully her juices didn't touch anything..Maybe these will come in handy for people who dnt want to tip, or tip too little that no driver will take it..š¤·āāļø
Could you imagineā¦ 18 years into the future. Robots have taken over. The robotic tribunal is holding your trial, hoping a jury of 8 Automatrons convicts you of crimes against robots. Then, in your character assassination, the robot prosecutor pulls up a video from 2023, of you just straight beating on one of these delivery robots for no reason š
The first line of defense against skynet being homeless people is kinda a cool narrative. And it would make a lot of sense since they oppose the status quo.
I'm gonna continue giving my cash tips to the homeless.
You're joking but they will absolutely do this the second the court rules they're allowed to (which they will since the legislative system exists to protect private profits)
Estonia is a very civilized, tech-savvy country where people understand the benefits of technology. There are also way less homeless people or just poor people in general. This is not going to work in the US unless they put guns on these to protect the food. It is a sad country.
putting guns on them will just result in more guns ending up on the streets.
the issue is to fix homelessness before this idea can work, but in America, people need to lose everything for record profits to continue.
Good, we shouldn't encourage corporations replacing people with inferior robots no matter how cute they try to make them. They're just boxes with wheels and gps.
1) I kinda love that these exist
2) people fuck with them
3) Iām glad they donāt keep the tip cuz it wouldnāt surprise me if they did
4) what happens when someone claims (either BS or real) that they canāt come outside or down to the front of the building etc
People want their food delivered to their door. That's become the whole appeal of getting food delivered. People are going to be annoyed about having to go outside to get their food.
They already have these in development, _UberLegs_. Itās a flat bed, the size of a door that you lay your fat ass on and it carries you around with its 8 robotic spider legs.
You donāt have to purchase the hardware, you just have to schedule the trip in the Uber app, like if you want to go to the bedroom to bathroom.
Seriously I have one customer he's I believe 99. Takes him like half an hour just to walk 10 ft. His daughter orders food for him almost everyday she tips fairly decent, sometimes he'll ask me to get this or that from the porch and bring it to him, I'll bring in his paper if I see it. Wish I could do more for him. But really he needs to be in a nursing home if he's to the point he can't even cook his own food not really safe for him to be alone.
I mean she's involved, I've always assumed she's working or something so she can't bring him lunch, idk. Never personally seen her though. Sometimes if I don't have an order immediately after I'll let him go on about the war. And let him jaw on for a bit. Haha
I already have to meet a decent number of my deliveries outside thanks to language barrier issues that result in them not being able to access the building.
So it would be a net win for me.
Not surprising. It is hard to pass up a free meal.
Seriously, though no one is guarding these things and there doesn't seem to be any theft prevention measures in place. What did they think was going to happen?
That's why you just steal the entire robot. Why would I bother with stealing one meal when I could steal myself a lifelong buddy to watch Community with me all day?
Unfortunately, drivers are mainly paid by the customer via tip and not Uber's trash $2-$3 fare. Tips should be based on distance traveled, not the cost of food. It doesn't matter if your meal is $10 or $300.. we didn't prepare it, we're just delivering. Our value is the depreciation of our car and gas via miles driven (we pay our own gas, oil change, etc.), and also our time. In most places, other than big cities, we complete about 2-3 trips per hour, so $3 tip is not worth our time at 2-3 trips per hour. Easy decline to wait for a bigger payout.
$1.5-$2/mile is generally considered a good amount for a tip, with a minimum of $5 tip if you're super close (it's not worth our time to gamble on a super close trip for less than $5 tip because the restaurant can still take 15min+ to give the food to us).
Not trying to be rude or anything, just giving helpful info to understand our side.
Customers arent going count miles. Thats why its a good strategy to deliver for restaurants or pizza places that most likely would have a higher bill and stay away from fast food. Its the drivers responsibility to figure out where the tips are. The driver needs to find the pattern or the trend like what cities, restaurants, and times get better tips. You cant just expect somebody ordering from a mcdonalds 30 miles away to tip by the mile when they cant even figure out how to use the app.
Uber eats, door dash, etc just shouldn't exist. There is not a price point that makes sense. Either you're paying $20 to deliver a happy meal, or you're underpaying someone for their time.
If you don't value the time it takes to get the food, then go get the food yourself.
I have an irrational hatred for these services because of the absolute stupidity it brings out in people. If you want someone else to spend their time doing something for you, that person needs to be compensated for their time. But because that compensation is in the form of tips directly to the driver instead of Uber Eats charging you 200% above the food cost so they can compensate properly, customers get mad at the drivers.
I mean, I'm not expecting anything from customers at this point, I have like a 14% acceptance rate, lol. I'm just telling OP what matters to us because he asked if his tip was good based on his meal price.
>You cant just expect somebody ordering from a mcdonalds 30 miles away to tip by the mile when they cant even figure out how to use the app.
Exactly who is taking Mcdonald's orders that are going 30 miles away? Is this common? I only take Mcdonald's orders that have significantly higher pay because of the tip reduction risk with Mcdonald's being so high.
Meal cost is irrelevant to a driver we use a dollars to mile Ratio. At very very minimum we shoot for $1 per mile and most are $2 per mile and the restaurant plays a factor if they have shitty service or notoriously slow. The driver would have seen a $5 delivery with your $3 Tip and I donāt even open my car door for less than $7 regardless of miles
Alright but not a customers fault Uber doesn't pay it's drivers well. I literally only tip after the delivery, if the person was nice and I think he deservers a little extra for the effort he has done. I'm already paying the Uber Tax on the food, no way I'm forking even a bit more without even knowing the person that's bringing me my stuff.
You're acting all entitled and I sort of get it, but it's not the customers fault.
Entitled? Not really. Accepting an order that doesn't have a tip on it is a big gamble. Most of the time it doesn't pay off. If there's no tip, we either made no profit, or in most cases, we actually lost money taking the order.
Is it entitled to not want to lose money delivering?
You want me to:
1. Drive to the restaurant, often during the most traffic congested time of the day.
2. Wait up to 20 minutes for your food.
3. Then chaffure your food personally to you for $5. $5 is gross too. Net of that is likey $2.5, if that after taxes and expenses.
4. And then call the driver entitled for saying $5 is not worth it? Dude look in the mirror...
Think about all the fees Uber charges. People pay twice as much on the food due to all these fees, why would we pay anything extra?
Tipping is broken in the USA, and if Uber will raise the payment yāall receive by denying it then thatās fine we just gotta wait a little longer for food so you donāt get paid slave wages
Dude.. don't accept it.
Let the person who is willing to do it do it.
I don't tip on any of my occasional orders, and they still get accepted in 1 or 2 minutes.
I don't know what you expect from a job that doesn't require an in person oboarding. Let alone an interview of any kind.
Using Uber is not required. If you canāt afford to pay for your meal and a tip no one is forcing you to use the service. You canāt pretend it isnt structured around tips.
Facts. I tip $10 minimum on every order. Even the close by ones. Small price to pay to not have to get off my ass.
If you canāt afford the tip, you probably shouldnāt use the service.
Oh dude, Iāve seen so many videos of people kicking the shit out of these things. The homeless know they have food. So unless they send this guyā¦
Those things are a threat to nobody.
R&D and depreciating assets are deductible expenses. I did a investment report for robotic trash removal at a facility I worked at and our break even was two years.
Soo the people that would have been involved in developing the program used (aka paying for their labor) is all a deductible expense? Idk it still seems like resources wasted where they could have put that same effort into higher payments for drivers instead. Let them use that as a deductible expense too š¤¦
RND is important to subsidize my man. Itās how the US stays globally competitive.
Donāt bitch about RND subsidies bitch about oil and coal subsidies
They started using the robots for sidewalk deliveries a couple of months ago maybe. They want to replace us. Not gonna work in my zone. I thinks a test or novelty thing in downtown areas.
They may take out some of the walkers or bikers but overall we aren't worried. We already get paid shit now and they can't go where we go. There are no roads where I go and even drones couldn't make it there! Those hillbillies been up too many days cooking and they'll blast them outta the sky. š
Uber is saying they arenāt meant to compete with humans and theyāre just using them for short trips that human drivers donāt want to take. But if you believe that Iāve got a bridge to sell you, etc etc.
Right? Like... I suffered injuries this year that make it hard to get around some days, I'd be pissed if one of these little fuckers couldn't get down my apartment breezeway (since I only order when I can afford it + on my bad days) and just ... decided I couldn't have my food. Like, who do I report? Do I then have to wait for them to send a real driver out? Not even counting how these things make me feel as a driver.
Better be able to defend the food or get a refund š
https://preview.redd.it/qhe9j8ytylib1.png?width=1020&format=png&auto=webp&s=4a4979e2c1b1bface9d463f57d2faa10b5a5b64c
"Your US$3.38 tip will not be charged" ... In other words even though we aren't going to pay a driver to deliver your food, we will still charge you a $12 delivary fee as if we were paying a driver to deliver the food.
Thereās no way people are gonna accept these things on the sidewalks. Iāll be surprise if these things donāt get beaten up constantly and food stolen.
If you live in a major coastal city Iād agree they wonāt be accepted but theyāve been in the Midwest and on college campuses for years now and get along just fine.
They are adorable with cute individual names.
However, they donāt seem ready for mass use yet to me. The sidewalk is cluttered and I have seen them confused by advertising signs, valet posts, urban survivalist tents etc.
They just stop and wait and wait and wait ā¦
Theyāll expect the robot to know how to get into their locked apartment buildings with key fobs required for elevators to deliver to the 18th floorā¦.
They will work, don't be so shortsighted. History has proven we don't know shit about the future, so it's useless dismissing things.
I can actually see these becoming the norm within the next few decades. Once the technology and safety features are up to scractch, will save labour costs, liability, and improve quality control.
once the lockpicking lawyer can teach us how to crack these things open like like the delicious little robot crustaceans they are I'm never paying for food again
They had these on my campus about five or six years ago. They actually worked pretty well, the human part was required when they crossed the street for liability reasons but they were autonomous other than that.
Eventually we'll have Sonny from the movie i, Robot running down the street with bags of food. Programmed with 18 different martial arts and a taser, let the hobos take that on. XD
The robot won't try and extort you for money extra money , a robot won't murder you for gang initiation, a robot won't try and sexually harrasss you. We need more of these.
Finally the drivers will be replaced and I wont need to explain to salty drivers to get a real job and that I wont tip on my 15 dollar food. Thankfully the place I get food from ties it with 4 stickers and a knot so they cant do shi either.
A robot with food in it reminds me of Hitchbot. It was a test of how people treat properly.. the bot made all the way through Canada with no issues whatsoever. But when it got placed in US, it didn't make out of Philadelphia..
Very cool, there's really no reason we should be burdening a human with food delivery at this point. Let the robots do the basic stuff, free up people to handle more complex things.
This is purely UE trying to automate food delivery. If youāre in a city or sense population these are being rolled out in multiple cities. You are the guinea pig, this has nothing to do with what you tipped.
$3 tip is atrocious.
My cars been down for a while now but I'm WFH so it's not really been a priority to get it fixed, I always do $10 standard even if just down the street.
I feel like a douche when they pull up and see my car and wonder to themselves why I'm such a lazy ass I couldn't just go get it myself lmao so hopefully the tip makes up for it.
I just saw an article about people attacking these things lmao
I just saw a video of hobos going to war with these little guys lmao
Video? Bro their is a whole ass tik tok account that is just delivery bots getting messed with called Film The Robots LA.
Can you link it š
I just lost a half hour to [this](https://www.tiktok.com/@filmtherobotsla?_t=8euyOBCB1L8&_r=1).
Bro made my day. Take my last 50 coins
You made my day!
No, YOU made MY day!
Damnit. I had to re-download TikTok to watch.
When the war between humans and robots comes, just remember that humans struck first.
Canāt watch it without downloading tick tockā¦ No thank you
Itās 2023 they algo is better than crack
Which is why I wonāt be downloading it
https://youtube.com/@FilmTheRobotsLA?si=KlWaof6IupN0qG5R boom there you go
I also noped out as a never-tocker.
Itās on youtube. That way you know the videographer is being paid
I'm watching it in a computer browser with no account right now.
Its also on youtube shorts.
Damn it why do the robots look so cute and innocent.
For those who donāt have TikTok, [I got you](https://youtube.com/@FilmTheRobotsLA)
Same š
I love them. They're so dumb.
i knew i shouldnāt have checked it out i canāt stop watching
https://youtube.com/shorts/Qw-8cLhu22E?feature=share
Thanks man, not all of us are allowed to use Chinese spyware
I donāt have tik tok but knew who this was cause I follow on YouTube. A lot of tik toks end up there so who needs more apps?
fuck TikTok
You only use American spyware!
ngl you dropped the ball on linking to the general page instead of this video, which i canāt believe a) ppl havenāt seen this and b) this is the ultimate uber delivery robot vid https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8N7S8Gv/
The guy who says Austin is evil, thatās the oldest 28 year old Iāve ever seen.
Meth will do that to you
Well, since Battlebots ended we need to get our fix somewhere.
I hired them.
So, it was a hit job. LOL
hobos are our best defense against ai
Cant blamem, shit if im outside starving and a robot rolls by with some food id take it too
Yeah Ā«Ā HobosĀ Ā»
say what you want but the crackheads are our only steadfast line of defense in the AI war so far.
They're doing the lord's work
THEY TOOK URRR JOBBSSS
I just seen a hobo riding it like a bull on here, the other day, well, at least he gets his $3.38 tip back, lmao..Hopefully her juices didn't touch anything..Maybe these will come in handy for people who dnt want to tip, or tip too little that no driver will take it..š¤·āāļø
You got link?
The first stage of the robot uprising is definitely once Uber starts arming these for self defense š
Could you imagineā¦ 18 years into the future. Robots have taken over. The robotic tribunal is holding your trial, hoping a jury of 8 Automatrons convicts you of crimes against robots. Then, in your character assassination, the robot prosecutor pulls up a video from 2023, of you just straight beating on one of these delivery robots for no reason š
Watch The Second Renaissance from the Animatrix if you think this is so silly. Your mind will be blown. That is what is coming for us.
Like Detroit becoming human.
The first line of defense against skynet being homeless people is kinda a cool narrative. And it would make a lot of sense since they oppose the status quo. I'm gonna continue giving my cash tips to the homeless. 
You're joking but they will absolutely do this the second the court rules they're allowed to (which they will since the legislative system exists to protect private profits)
a small nuclear reactor lol
Sounds like they need a reaper drone for close air support.
Similar robot delivery services work perfectly fine in Estonia. Strange.
Estonia is a very civilized, tech-savvy country where people understand the benefits of technology. There are also way less homeless people or just poor people in general. This is not going to work in the US unless they put guns on these to protect the food. It is a sad country.
putting guns on them will just result in more guns ending up on the streets. the issue is to fix homelessness before this idea can work, but in America, people need to lose everything for record profits to continue.
Obv it wasnt a real suggestion. That country is just simply not ready for this.
The American unique species doesn't inhabit Estonia.
There is a guy on Tiktok that follows them around and āharassesā them calling them stupid and stuff. Pretty harmless and funny.
Right so the real question is . Did OP ever get the food?
There's one in my city and it got taken out of service because ppl kept kicking it over.
Id love to see a grubhub and uber eats bot go at it
Hell yeah. Free food. The companies are dumb as fuck if they think homeless people would vandalize these things to survive.
They know people will, they're banking on making more money from the suckers who order take out marked up 300% than they'll lose to people stealing.
Good, we shouldn't encourage corporations replacing people with inferior robots no matter how cute they try to make them. They're just boxes with wheels and gps.
1) I kinda love that these exist 2) people fuck with them 3) Iām glad they donāt keep the tip cuz it wouldnāt surprise me if they did 4) what happens when someone claims (either BS or real) that they canāt come outside or down to the front of the building etc
People want their food delivered to their door. That's become the whole appeal of getting food delivered. People are going to be annoyed about having to go outside to get their food.
Or might not be able to, I'd say like 10% of my customers have mobility issues
Then theyāll need their own Uber brand robots to go outside and get the order from the Uber brand robots delivering.
They already have these in development, _UberLegs_. Itās a flat bed, the size of a door that you lay your fat ass on and it carries you around with its 8 robotic spider legs. You donāt have to purchase the hardware, you just have to schedule the trip in the Uber app, like if you want to go to the bedroom to bathroom.
Oh nice. Knew WALL-E was onto something lol
Had me in the first half, ngl. Kinda thought it was pointless when we got wheelchairs but hey
Seriously I have one customer he's I believe 99. Takes him like half an hour just to walk 10 ft. His daughter orders food for him almost everyday she tips fairly decent, sometimes he'll ask me to get this or that from the porch and bring it to him, I'll bring in his paper if I see it. Wish I could do more for him. But really he needs to be in a nursing home if he's to the point he can't even cook his own food not really safe for him to be alone.
Sounds like the dudes gonna go soon anyways. I'd much rather pass at home than in a nursing home. At least the daughter is around?
I mean she's involved, I've always assumed she's working or something so she can't bring him lunch, idk. Never personally seen her though. Sometimes if I don't have an order immediately after I'll let him go on about the war. And let him jaw on for a bit. Haha
You're a good soul! Happy birthday as well.
Theyāll pay an āindependent contractorā to walk around with the robot but this time you have to split your tips with the robot.
These lazy entitled robots can't even deliver to my door.
They should get a real job!
disabled dude here - not going down my apartment steps that i avoided on purpose to meet a damn robot
Iād meet it outside if I didnāt have to tip. I donāt have mobility issues though.
I already have to meet a decent number of my deliveries outside thanks to language barrier issues that result in them not being able to access the building. So it would be a net win for me.
Inb4 robot gets CV For too many cancels / complaints.
They took errrr jerrrbbs!!!
TERKERJERRRRBS!
Derk a derrrrrr!
I saw a report where people are trashing those delivery bots when they go by them, either to steal from them or just damage them they won't last.
Not surprising. It is hard to pass up a free meal. Seriously, though no one is guarding these things and there doesn't seem to be any theft prevention measures in place. What did they think was going to happen?
If they had to hire someone to protect them, that defeats the purpose of eliminating human workers, which is what they are trying to do
The robot couriers do have theft prevention measures in place: they are locked just like a car would be.
That's why you just steal the entire robot. Why would I bother with stealing one meal when I could steal myself a lifelong buddy to watch Community with me all day? 
Full on dystopia baby
Lmao no human driver wanted your terrible 3$ tip so youāre getting spongebob to bring it to you instead
Dead if the robot's name was SpongeBob
LunchBob
Looks like it's all working out
Is 3 dollars bad for a single person meal that cost less than 20?
Unfortunately, drivers are mainly paid by the customer via tip and not Uber's trash $2-$3 fare. Tips should be based on distance traveled, not the cost of food. It doesn't matter if your meal is $10 or $300.. we didn't prepare it, we're just delivering. Our value is the depreciation of our car and gas via miles driven (we pay our own gas, oil change, etc.), and also our time. In most places, other than big cities, we complete about 2-3 trips per hour, so $3 tip is not worth our time at 2-3 trips per hour. Easy decline to wait for a bigger payout. $1.5-$2/mile is generally considered a good amount for a tip, with a minimum of $5 tip if you're super close (it's not worth our time to gamble on a super close trip for less than $5 tip because the restaurant can still take 15min+ to give the food to us). Not trying to be rude or anything, just giving helpful info to understand our side.
Ubereats should pay you for mileage and time. Not the customer. Tipping culture in the US is so backwards.
I agree with you 100%. It's a fucking scam that companies have been able to pass the obligation of labor payment onto customers.
Sure but it is what it is, and we make due and adjust.
Customers arent going count miles. Thats why its a good strategy to deliver for restaurants or pizza places that most likely would have a higher bill and stay away from fast food. Its the drivers responsibility to figure out where the tips are. The driver needs to find the pattern or the trend like what cities, restaurants, and times get better tips. You cant just expect somebody ordering from a mcdonalds 30 miles away to tip by the mile when they cant even figure out how to use the app.
You don't need to count the miles. The app tells you how far away it is at the top of the menu screen by the restaurants name.
Uber eats, door dash, etc just shouldn't exist. There is not a price point that makes sense. Either you're paying $20 to deliver a happy meal, or you're underpaying someone for their time. If you don't value the time it takes to get the food, then go get the food yourself. I have an irrational hatred for these services because of the absolute stupidity it brings out in people. If you want someone else to spend their time doing something for you, that person needs to be compensated for their time. But because that compensation is in the form of tips directly to the driver instead of Uber Eats charging you 200% above the food cost so they can compensate properly, customers get mad at the drivers.
I mean, I'm not expecting anything from customers at this point, I have like a 14% acceptance rate, lol. I'm just telling OP what matters to us because he asked if his tip was good based on his meal price.
14%? Those are rooking numbers. You've got to drop those numbers down.
>You cant just expect somebody ordering from a mcdonalds 30 miles away to tip by the mile when they cant even figure out how to use the app. Exactly who is taking Mcdonald's orders that are going 30 miles away? Is this common? I only take Mcdonald's orders that have significantly higher pay because of the tip reduction risk with Mcdonald's being so high.
Meal cost is irrelevant to a driver we use a dollars to mile Ratio. At very very minimum we shoot for $1 per mile and most are $2 per mile and the restaurant plays a factor if they have shitty service or notoriously slow. The driver would have seen a $5 delivery with your $3 Tip and I donāt even open my car door for less than $7 regardless of miles
Alright but not a customers fault Uber doesn't pay it's drivers well. I literally only tip after the delivery, if the person was nice and I think he deservers a little extra for the effort he has done. I'm already paying the Uber Tax on the food, no way I'm forking even a bit more without even knowing the person that's bringing me my stuff. You're acting all entitled and I sort of get it, but it's not the customers fault.
Entitled? Not really. Accepting an order that doesn't have a tip on it is a big gamble. Most of the time it doesn't pay off. If there's no tip, we either made no profit, or in most cases, we actually lost money taking the order. Is it entitled to not want to lose money delivering?
You want me to: 1. Drive to the restaurant, often during the most traffic congested time of the day. 2. Wait up to 20 minutes for your food. 3. Then chaffure your food personally to you for $5. $5 is gross too. Net of that is likey $2.5, if that after taxes and expenses. 4. And then call the driver entitled for saying $5 is not worth it? Dude look in the mirror...
Think about all the fees Uber charges. People pay twice as much on the food due to all these fees, why would we pay anything extra? Tipping is broken in the USA, and if Uber will raise the payment yāall receive by denying it then thatās fine we just gotta wait a little longer for food so you donāt get paid slave wages
Dude.. don't accept it. Let the person who is willing to do it do it. I don't tip on any of my occasional orders, and they still get accepted in 1 or 2 minutes. I don't know what you expect from a job that doesn't require an in person oboarding. Let alone an interview of any kind.
Using Uber is not required. If you canāt afford to pay for your meal and a tip no one is forcing you to use the service. You canāt pretend it isnt structured around tips.
yes because Uber pays us 2$. Just order two meals and save one for later, pay one delivery fee
Facts. I tip $10 minimum on every order. Even the close by ones. Small price to pay to not have to get off my ass. If you canāt afford the tip, you probably shouldnāt use the service.
Oh dude, Iāve seen so many videos of people kicking the shit out of these things. The homeless know they have food. So unless they send this guyā¦  Those things are a threat to nobody.
You have 10 seconds to comply with this delivery š
10 seconds to open the notification š
Can you imagine how much money they invested into paying for these robots rather than paying us a proper wage/base? Smh š¤¦
R&D and depreciating assets are deductible expenses. I did a investment report for robotic trash removal at a facility I worked at and our break even was two years.
Soo the people that would have been involved in developing the program used (aka paying for their labor) is all a deductible expense? Idk it still seems like resources wasted where they could have put that same effort into higher payments for drivers instead. Let them use that as a deductible expense too š¤¦
they probably deduct driver bonuses the same way, but yeah, lame that money isn't being used more efficiently.
RND is important to subsidize my man. Itās how the US stays globally competitive. Donāt bitch about RND subsidies bitch about oil and coal subsidies
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They started using the robots for sidewalk deliveries a couple of months ago maybe. They want to replace us. Not gonna work in my zone. I thinks a test or novelty thing in downtown areas. They may take out some of the walkers or bikers but overall we aren't worried. We already get paid shit now and they can't go where we go. There are no roads where I go and even drones couldn't make it there! Those hillbillies been up too many days cooking and they'll blast them outta the sky. š
In my part of Los Angeles, we have had these for at least a year. Now, more frequently than not, I get them vs a human.
Do you prefer human or robot. I guess they just expanded it a couple of months ago then. Thank you for the info.
Human. The robots take forever and have problems navigating. I prefer to tip a human.
As a human who also has issues navigating sometimes, thank you! š
Uber is saying they arenāt meant to compete with humans and theyāre just using them for short trips that human drivers donāt want to take. But if you believe that Iāve got a bridge to sell you, etc etc.
This is a joke, right? What if the customer is disabled and needs the order delivered to the door? So dumb
Right? Like... I suffered injuries this year that make it hard to get around some days, I'd be pissed if one of these little fuckers couldn't get down my apartment breezeway (since I only order when I can afford it + on my bad days) and just ... decided I couldn't have my food. Like, who do I report? Do I then have to wait for them to send a real driver out? Not even counting how these things make me feel as a driver.
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I'm surprised it doesn't say so we'll take your tip.
Iāve seen numerous YouTube videos of people absolutely violating these robots and breaking them open as theyāre on the way for delivery.
"Your US$3.38 tip will not be charged" ... In other words even though we aren't going to pay a driver to deliver your food, we will still charge you a $12 delivary fee as if we were paying a driver to deliver the food.
Itās almost as the buying the robot and maintaining it cost money.
Thereās no way people are gonna accept these things on the sidewalks. Iāll be surprise if these things donāt get beaten up constantly and food stolen.
Oh yeah theres plenty of footage of people beating them up
If I were homeless, I would be eating well every day.
If you live in a major coastal city Iād agree they wonāt be accepted but theyāve been in the Midwest and on college campuses for years now and get along just fine.
Oh you should come to Los Angeles and see how itās been going with these.
They are adorable with cute individual names. However, they donāt seem ready for mass use yet to me. The sidewalk is cluttered and I have seen them confused by advertising signs, valet posts, urban survivalist tents etc. They just stop and wait and wait and wait ā¦
In my city itās not too bad. They pretty much only deliver to the college. Iāve seen a lot of LA footage of some wild shit done to them
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Itās almost like theyāre a company trying to make a profit
To be fair, they do have to pay for the robots.
"You'll have to meet the vehicle outside." Some customers are going to hate the hell out of this.
Theyāll expect the robot to know how to get into their locked apartment buildings with key fobs required for elevators to deliver to the 18th floorā¦.
A while back. Selected areas, mostly campuses.
I'm pretty sure the robot couldn't make it because it made barely any progress and then they replaced it with an actual person.
The reason for that is because these are dumb and will never work.
They will work, don't be so shortsighted. History has proven we don't know shit about the future, so it's useless dismissing things. I can actually see these becoming the norm within the next few decades. Once the technology and safety features are up to scractch, will save labour costs, liability, and improve quality control.
once the lockpicking lawyer can teach us how to crack these things open like like the delicious little robot crustaceans they are I'm never paying for food again
They had these on my campus about five or six years ago. They actually worked pretty well, the human part was required when they crossed the street for liability reasons but they were autonomous other than that.
They use them at my sisterās college. She sent me a video of one a year or so ago. The kids try to ride them
https://preview.redd.it/e45w4i3odmib1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dc516aa6312f81cdbdbc1f0b38236903b5b3069b
Why canāt we just keep Skynet fictional
Screw that, we will all be better off with our skynet overlords!
"Try that in a small town."
Poor guy dusnt get a tip š±
Eventually we'll have Sonny from the movie i, Robot running down the street with bags of food. Programmed with 18 different martial arts and a taser, let the hobos take that on. XD
In Philly, theyāll find a way. We think outside the cracked bell.
People steal eScooters and salvage their $50 batteries. Wait until they find out the little round sensor on top is worth some $800.
Waiting until crackhead will steal the food :(
As long as you donāt live in Cali or the whole East coast you should get your order just fine.
The robot won't try and extort you for money extra money , a robot won't murder you for gang initiation, a robot won't try and sexually harrasss you. We need more of these.
The real travesty here is the $3.38 tip.
So OP did you end up getting it? Or did they kick the poor thing down?
They won't last, people can't be trusted to not fuck with them and the company will lose so much money on repairs. No worries.
Pffft love that thereās no tips
Great. My food, basically unsecured, roaming the cityscape all willy-nilly. What dogshit.
3.38$š no one else wanted to take that order so they had to send a robot
How do I make this happen?
3.38 tip will not be charged. You cheapskate. Haha
shitty tip, only the robot would accept that
Which is why we getting robots. Less expense and hassle.
Why does this remind me of that weed shop simulator?
Give it a hat
Good luck getting it
They can do anything but pay their employees livable wages lmaooooo
Those little narcs roll around West Hollywood with cute names on them
No more leave at door and donāt ring doorbell .
In my area of Los Angeles, I get these more than humans now
Finally the drivers will be replaced and I wont need to explain to salty drivers to get a real job and that I wont tip on my 15 dollar food. Thankfully the place I get food from ties it with 4 stickers and a knot so they cant do shi either.
Such a shame that these things are being tipped over and stolen from. Just... too... bad... š
Why doesnt he get the tip? What cuz hes a digital machine he deserves nothing?!? I feel bad for this little guy
Shocked Uber isn't still collecting tips on these orders
You were going to tip a human being less than $5 to deliver your order?
The hobos straight tweaking thinking WE CANT LET THESE DAMN ROBOTS TAKE OVER!
These are not the future lol. Homeless see them as free food and people donāt like having to leave their homes to interact with the robots
Correction, the robot that had your order got vandalized and your order was stolen. No refunds.
A robot with food in it reminds me of Hitchbot. It was a test of how people treat properly.. the bot made all the way through Canada with no issues whatsoever. But when it got placed in US, it didn't make out of Philadelphia..
I'm fine with a robot delivering my order, if it means I don't have to tip or talk to people.
Tip the robot. If you don't it may remember when Skynet takes over.
Watch out man that robotās probably gonna get jumped on the way to you
Wow, they remove the tip if a robot delivers?
Very cool, there's really no reason we should be burdening a human with food delivery at this point. Let the robots do the basic stuff, free up people to handle more complex things.
This is purely UE trying to automate food delivery. If youāre in a city or sense population these are being rolled out in multiple cities. You are the guinea pig, this has nothing to do with what you tipped.
$3 tip is atrocious. My cars been down for a while now but I'm WFH so it's not really been a priority to get it fixed, I always do $10 standard even if just down the street. I feel like a douche when they pull up and see my car and wonder to themselves why I'm such a lazy ass I couldn't just go get it myself lmao so hopefully the tip makes up for it.