Nahh they’re just looking for the break room
This is actually completely natural migration behaviour. Waymos migrate south for the winter to warmer climates, which are less taxing on their batteries. As the weather begins to warm again, they travel north to return home and find a mate
Only the “find a mate” bit shows that you’re making a joke.
“Completely natural migration behavior?”
“Waymos migrate south for the winter to warmer climates?”
Those are more tongue in cheek than straight up jokes. There’s an actual explanation in there: Cold stresses the battery, so the self driving car moves somewhere warmer. This is the humorously framed as if it were talking about an animal, rather than a machine.
Someday, we will have automated robots with this sort of self management - and an AI will be explaining how we emulate nature to optimize the behavior of robots.
Electronic moose stand atop hills, so that the radios in their antlers can reach the space eagles in orbit, who observe the earth from on high…
Something like that.
Call your favorite tow company and tell them that you’ve got a lot of work for them.
With an automated fleet of thousands of vehicles, I wonder how easy it will be to paralize traffic around a city in a click of a button.
Not only traffic - Google is now able to kill every protest in the areas they are operating their Waymos. They can block streets or simply do an automated Tiananmen Square massacre by ordering their thousands of vehicles to drive at full speed through the protestors. They can also encircle protest camps like on Tahir square by simply driving around them at high speeds
They can be stopped by a log, a few bricks and spray paint
Hopefully they don’t do this.
Didnt they remove “Dont be evil” from their mission statement?
I figured social media was already doing that further left of an event by shadow banning posters that could create communities and foster protests. It is far cheaper to keep people feeling helpless and disconnected from other disenfranchised people.
Can’t wait for IRL denial of service attack
I work across the street from a Waymo station and they just circle the parking lot aimlessly 24/7. They had to hire someone to monitor access because they were getting stuck and blocking the commercial vehicles from accessing the dock.
Not Just Bikes predicted this months ago. They can’t be bothered to pay for sufficient parking space, so they just drive around in circles when they’re not actively in use.
I actually posted a Reddit a few years ago.
But, I deleted my account and posts a while back too
Huh?
The idea they would end up doing this to avoid parking fees
That seems like a giant waste of battery/fuel.
Bet they use that as their “more than a bazillion miles rides without accidents*” statistic
Why, when they can just make shit up?
Because now they have actual “proof” in hands.
Everything these techbros come up with is a giant waste of energy. It doesn’t concern them at all, despite out planet literally burning.
Parking is expensive.
they just circle the parking lot aimlessly 24/7.
Around here this is an actionable offense. Misuse of public streets.
(They will have to do lots of reprogramming before they can try their luck outside of their own lawless country)
They’re already starting up in the UK.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/waymo-self-driving-car-wakes-london-street-5HjdYx5_2/
The UK is US-lite these days, and probably going to be worse once reform come to power :(
Chinese pony.ai is also starting this with Verne in Croatia.
UK
But they want back into the EU. 👹
Well, the general concept is no different from what regular taxis already do. What makes this stand out is that they are robotically going to the same otherwise little utilized areas…
“Regular taxis” find somewhere to park. They are not interested in burning fuel for no reason.
Waymos do try to find somewhere to park too which has also been the subject of stories like this when the place they choose seems unusual. Neither types of taxis can always be parked since they may be in areas with little legal parking space available. Since there are incentives for drivers to be in busy areas where they might pick up customers it isn’t very uncommon for taxis in general.
Waymo behavior just stands out because the system isn’t concerned about how things look and there is more coordination/consistency. A human driver might choose a less efficient way to circle around in the area using congested roads etc. and every driver makes their independent and almost always different decisions. Waymos on the other hand can get allocated to the same area in anticipation of demand and then go to the same streets because the system deems those to be the best option available at the time.
like this issue they will fix it in minutes dear luddite
what do you think normal taxis do?
Its been happening for 3 months…
They’re probing our defences before the big strike
Not in Buckhead, they aren’t. That’s where the mansions in Atlanta are.
Idk, seems to me they know who actually runs things
It was a joke 🤭
Mobile surveillance units
Yes, police have been known to use the Waymo camera footage for reconnaissance.
Free tires. 🤷
Haha, get fucked, Buckhead.
(For reference, that’s where the rich assholes live.)
But also fuck Waymo, of course.
Isn’t that John’s Creek?
People in John’s Creek wish they could afford property in Buckhead. It’s a big area (more than one neighborhood), but parts of it are neighborhoods with names like “Tuxedo Park” that contain legitimate mansions, including the governor’s mansion. People like Tyler Perry and Elton John live there. You get the idea.
Forgot about those parts. When I think Buckhead I think of the area near the mall. When I think rich and too afraid of the poors for even Alpharetta, I think John’s creek.
I mean, the higher-density parts are surely incredibly expensive, too. Elton John’s place (which he apparently sold a few years ago for over $7M) was a high-rise condo on Peachtree Road. And that was an older building near West Wesley; I’d expect newer buildings near Paces Ferry or Lenox Road to be even higher $/ft2.
Way more Waymos (Way mo’ Waymos) than expected.
Anyone see the movie Leave The World Behind? Looks familiar…
Yeah, Teslas acting more like suicide drones.
It was teslas in that movie, but yes
Ah right, thank you :) Well, now we know that Teslas probably couldn’t self drive that far without getting into an accident, hindsight.
Thanks I was trying to remember the name of the movie, but this was my first thought also 🤣.
just walk through with a radio jammer and start slashing tires.
Jammers are illegal and expensive. Just get some orange cones and you get the same effect.
Indeed, absolutely.
slash the tires, tho.
Jammers are illegal
who the fuck cares? so is driving a car recklessly, not stopping waymo.
jammers temporary disable comms with HQ. they will have to send techs out to fix the slashed tires and debug issues.
not stopping waymo.
The law only applies to filthy poors and you don’t want to piss off the FCC. The local police will have a harder time tying you to random cones and flat tires though.
fuck the FCC.
it would be far easier to track down cones than a jammer. there’s tons of instructions online on how to build one and plenty of ways to buy one online anonymously.
Thinking of the bugged Teslas… Man, now it’s a documentary.
That was the second best scene in that whole dipshit movie.
What are waymos?
Google’s remote driving taxi service
Oh, they are Google? Didn’t know that. Thought it was some startup.
Yes, and they’re not autonomous as they market them. They’re drived by AI (actually, Indians)
Remotely? Like, a drving game?
Partially. If they get stuck a human is alerted to take over remotely. I think they are Filipinos though, based on some other news here.
So maybe this is just Filipinos intimidating someone in this neighborhood who pissed them off?
ffs
Driverless Taxis
Ah ok
