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Title: Robot vacuum cleaner escapes from Cambridge Travelodge
Post by: CLKD on January 23, 2022, 04:35:34 PM
Made a run for it. No predators so it could have gone anywhere  ;D

Worth a read.  Lightened my afternoon ;-)
Title: Re: Robot vacuum cleaner escapes from Cambridge Travelodge
Post by: sheila99 on January 23, 2022, 05:00:51 PM
Wait til they're driverless cats and they've been hacked...
Title: Re: Robot vacuum cleaner escapes from Cambridge Travelodge
Post by: CLKD on January 23, 2022, 05:05:45 PM
 ;D

There are a lot of those robot delivery thingies around here - I am tempted to pinch one  :D
Title: Re: Robot vacuum cleaner escapes from Cambridge Travelodge
Post by: Joaniepat on January 23, 2022, 06:20:31 PM
Wait til they're driverless cats and they've been hacked...
Driverless cats? Now there's a thing  :catscratch: :cat88: :cat48:
JP x
Title: Re: Robot vacuum cleaner escapes from Cambridge Travelodge
Post by: sheila99 on January 23, 2022, 09:15:23 PM
Oops!  ;D
Title: Re: Robot vacuum cleaner escapes from Cambridge Travelodge
Post by: CLKD on January 23, 2022, 09:18:23 PM
 ;D
Title: Re: Robot vacuum cleaner escapes from Cambridge Travelodge
Post by: VictoryV on January 23, 2022, 09:52:09 PM
I clipped one on a zebra crossing yesterday, I wasn’t going fast and they are difficult to see in daylight as they blend into zebra crossings quite well. It swerved quickly and didn’t stop. I’m waiting to hear if anything happens as I didn’t run after it.
Title: Re: Robot vacuum cleaner escapes from Cambridge Travelodge
Post by: VictoryV on January 23, 2022, 09:53:33 PM
A delivery/microwave box looking thing not a robot vac!
Title: Re: Robot vacuum cleaner escapes from Cambridge Travelodge
Post by: CLKD on January 24, 2022, 09:48:33 AM
Also 1 isn't looking down that low  :o.  Do they have right of way like humans ?

Title: Re: Robot vacuum cleaner escapes from Cambridge Travelodge
Post by: sheila99 on January 24, 2022, 10:29:28 AM
They're changing the highway code so cyclists have priority over everyone else (can anyone guess the pm rides a bike?). If robots don't have priority over cars now I'm sure the soon will do.
10 points to anyone who runs over one  :)
Title: Re: Robot vacuum cleaner escapes from Cambridge Travelodge
Post by: CLKD on January 24, 2022, 11:08:31 AM
Chris Boardman is campaigning again for more cycle lanes etc..  I remember that in France, drivers had priority from the right in towns and cities  :o
Title: Re: Robot vacuum cleaner escapes from Cambridge Travelodge
Post by: VictoryV on January 24, 2022, 11:44:25 AM
I only clipped it and I did stop. What are we supposed to do with an injured one? Put it in boot and take it where? It swerved very quickly and continued up the road. This is a small village, it was heading in the direction of the pub.
A colleague asked if I’d noticed they have a flag and light (it was daylight), I didn’t see a flag but my car is very low.

God I hope it’s not ten points 😩
Title: Re: Robot vacuum cleaner escapes from Cambridge Travelodge
Post by: CLKD on January 24, 2022, 12:25:47 PM
Any news VictoriaV - mayB drowning it's sorrows in a bar ............
Title: Re: Robot vacuum cleaner escapes from Cambridge Travelodge
Post by: sheila99 on January 24, 2022, 01:57:19 PM
We've made many roads narrower to put cycle lanes in, now the feckers can pootle down the middle of the road at 3mph even when there's an empty cycle lane. No thought to the miles of country lanes where there isn't enough space to leave 1.5 metres when you pass and no obligation on them to pull over even when the tailback has reached 100 cars.
10 points - not points on your license, the object of these points is to get as many as you can.
They're not in my area yet but isn't this going to be the next crime wave when the local shoplifter finds it's an easy target?
Title: Re: Robot vacuum cleaner escapes from Cambridge Travelodge
Post by: CLKD on January 24, 2022, 02:34:58 PM
Cyclists have always been at risk - however many take risks by jumping red lights etc.  :-\

The delivery robots are programmed to shriek if approached.  Apparently  ;D
Title: Re: Robot vacuum cleaner escapes from Cambridge Travelodge
Post by: sheila99 on January 24, 2022, 07:06:17 PM
They wouldn't be at so much risk if they had to pass a proficiency test and show identification before being allowed on the roads. The cattle trailer is wider than the Land rover so you get idiots who sneak up the inside in front of the trailer at traffic lights. Don't they think what's going to happen when the lights change when they've stopped in front of the trailer and someone doesn't just happen to look in the mirror or if they're in the blind spot? Same with lorries at roundabouts.
Title: Re: Robot vacuum cleaner escapes from Cambridge Travelodge
Post by: CLKD on January 24, 2022, 07:16:22 PM
We did Cycling Profiencey at School  ;D

Many foreign lorries don't notice cars leave alone cycles  :o