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The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well

posted by janrinok on Sunday August 02 2015, @10:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the the-robots-will-remember... dept.

tonyPick writes:

The Hitchbot, a hitchhiking robot which was planned to tour the US has apparently failed to make it out of Philadelphia.

When hitchBOT the hitchhiking robot started his journey in Boston two weeks ago he wanted to see the entire country. Unfortunately, he never made it out of the Northeast. The researchers who built hitchBOT announced today that they need to stop the experiment because hitchBOT was vandalized in Philadelphia.
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The goal of the hitchhiking trip was to see how humans would interact with hitchBOT. And apparently the answer was "not well." HitchBOT has been around the world, including trips across the entirety of Canada and Germany without major incident. But America is clearly a hard land for our robot brothers and sisters.

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Originally spotted at io9.

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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday August 02 2015, @11:25PM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday August 02 2015, @11:25PM (#217147) Homepage

    The worst White people in the U.S. are also on the East Coast -- Specifically in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and Massachusetts.

    Toothless Southern trash can pretend to be gentlemen at least some of the time. Not East-coasters, though. East-Coasters are a bunch of loud, rude, obtuse, unpredictable obnoxious gorillas best left to performing in zoos and freakshows. Even border Mexicans are more preferable than East-Coast goons.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @12:06AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @12:06AM (#217160)

    When I read this post, I couldn't help thinking, this is the kind of person who would destroy the little robot.

  • (Score: 4, Funny) by LoRdTAW on Monday August 03 2015, @12:38AM

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Monday August 03 2015, @12:38AM (#217167) Journal

    Ah, a fellow east coaster! Glad you could join us.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @01:33AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2015, @01:33AM (#217177)

    I'm not saying people in the west are all ponies and rainbows nice, but the asshole quotient in the states you mention is extremely high.

  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday August 03 2015, @11:40AM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Monday August 03 2015, @11:40AM (#217348) Journal

    East-Coasters are a bunch of loud, rude, obtuse, unpredictable obnoxious gorillas best left to performing in zoos and freakshows

    You can't judge the entire Eastern seaboard by the Jersey Shore, Ethanol. You are, however, correct that the worst White people in the US are on the East Coast, but they are not even those on the Jersey Shore. They're the ones in the Hamptons, Westchester Country, the Upper East Side, and Wall Street. They're the ones that make everything suck for everyone else, everywhere.

    --
    Washington DC delenda est.