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Someone hacked YandexTaxi and ordered all available taxis to the same location

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Re: Someone hacked YandexTaxi and ordered all available taxis to the same location

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Post by gaius_baltar »

jbverschoor wrote: post #7

Someone also seems to have hacked this post on twitter... it's not loading

Some nitter instances also show it: https://nitter.42l.fr/runews/status/1565319649683804160#m

You can also search for #YandexTaxi : https://nitter.42l.fr/search?q=%23YandexTaxi

Re: Someone hacked YandexTaxi and ordered all available taxis to the same location

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Post by LinuxBender »

donkarma wrote: post #3

is this the future of self driving cars?

I think you are right. I think the unknowns are, how tiny will the script be that commands all the cars into a lake and will it be a cloud hack or a local broadcast hack?

Re: Someone hacked YandexTaxi and ordered all available taxis to the same location

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Post by Barrin92 »

this is also something that's oddly absent from the self-driving debates. Mass deployment of the same models or apis in automated systems is very brittle because it means errors are highly correlated. it's like a form of central planning.

individual drivers or individual taxi firms in a market due to their decentralization are much more robust to any kind of individual failure.

People often ask "is the car smarter than the driver?" but the correct question would be if the car, or system is more diverse than the aggregate knowledge of all the participants.

Re: Someone hacked YandexTaxi and ordered all available taxis to the same location

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Post by aaaaaaaaata »

LinuxBender wrote: post #13
donkarma wrote: post #3

is this the future of self driving cars?

I think you are right. I think the unknowns are, how tiny will the script be that commands all the cars into a lake and will it be a cloud hack or a local broadcast hack?

How about just driving you by billboards on, or for, Alphabet controlled properties?

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Post by tenebrisalietum »

hinkley wrote: post #6

This is what happens when optimists win and the realists are cut out of the conversation. As a taxi service, I believe I would want to know if I'm about to have a shortage of taxis in any one area of town, and I'd better only have a concentration in one area of town for an event the entire world is talking about, like a reunion tour or a championship game. Even with the hack, the moment all of the taxis started conve…

There are always going to be individuals that say yes the moment money enters the conversation, as long as food and housing cost money and there is the possibility of going without.
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