Estonian winter 1, delivery robots 0

I want to know what they were thinking. &quot;Alright, 10cm of snow ... send out the bots that are completely unfit for these conditions!&quot;<p>While questionable considering the location, of course it&#x27;s fine to not design them to work in snow. What baffles me is that they didn&#x27;t design them to work in snow <i>and sent them into the snow</i>.<p>Considering that it&#x27;s a lot of them in a bunch I can imagine that the bots had just started from their garage. Maybe this was some internal test?<p>I can&#x27;t imagine somebody consciously decided to let these things go through snow and operate normally. And surely there&#x27;s that amount of human oversight ...

I was in Tallinn last September and saw a couple of these. They&#x27;re pretty cute. One thing that bugged me was that when one of them crosses a street (using a pedestrian crossing), when it detects a car approaching, when it&#x27;s in the middle of the crossing, it stops and goes back to the pavement it was on originally, instead of continuing to move forward, which would take either the same or even less time. What&#x27;s the logic here?

They forgot to include a Snowbot in the convoy, rookie mistake.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thesnowbot.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thesnowbot.com&#x2F;</a>

Looks like they might just need higher ground clearance and some snow tires. They&#x27;re so low right now they look like they were designed for indoor use.

Snow is not that bad, but what about icing? It would be a fun view with all those robots gently sliding downhill.

It&#x27;s a bit funny, but not really. If I pushing my daughter in a stroller, and they blocked the way like that when it&#x27;s already difficult to walk in the snow I would literally kick one to the curb. I&#x27;m tired of the sidewalk being used as a dumping ground for every possible thing.

Any info on how they work when it&#x27;s not snowing?<p>If delivery robots get pedestrian and cycle lanes cleared of snow faster that feels like a win-win for everyone.

How did they all end up in the same snowdrift?<p>I&#x27;d love to see a Minard-type chart of the delivery routes, and the counts of how many robots dropped where...

This is why I have high amount of distrust towards self-driving cars - I always feel like no one has gone and tested them on an unplowed (or even plowed) piece of road.

This reminds me that I need to change my Tires!

The chilling effects of global warming.

Someone should end their misery.

I guess someone in SF forgot to account for bad weather in other parts of the world