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.
Free tires. 🤷
Mobile surveillance units
Yes, police have been known to use the Waymo camera footage for reconnaissance.
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 🤭
Way more Waymos (Way mo’ Waymos) than expected.
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.
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.
Can’t wait for IRL denial of service attack
Anyone see the movie Leave The World Behind? Looks familiar…
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 🤣.
Yeah, Teslas acting more like suicide drones.
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.
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.
Indeed, absolutely.
slash the tires, tho.
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
Call your favorite tow company and tell them that you’ve got a lot of work for them.
Nahh they’re just looking for the break room
Thinking of the bugged Teslas… Man, now it’s a documentary.
That was the second best scene in that whole dipshit movie.
