Waymo drives through Police Standoff.....

[YY1]

Coincidence?

 

[YY1]

Just announced last month-

Central FL (Auburndale) will be getting a test facility.

GREAT.

Remind me to steer clear of there.

 

[Don Frelier]

It would never work around my house.
You couldn't see the lines on the side of the road this morning (much less the road in places).
And I don't think GPS is accurate enough to keep the car on the road within the required distances.
(Perhaps I'm wrong there.)
We have dirt roads in places etc...

 

[autoxcuda]

No, I'm serious! I've never heard of such a thing.
Sounded like a grocery store. Bring way mo money.
im guessing its some self driving piece of ****. ABSOLUTELY should be banned completely!!!

It took me a while to realize it too. At first I thought they were Google cars taking pictures. Then my brother told me.

Look at the pictures I posted an see if you notice one. They are in dense metro areas: WLA, SM, beach communities that you see more taxis in. Maybe in Downtown Pasadena near you.

 

[Dennis H]

We got em. On the video, LEO’s were still in take down mode. No caution tape in place. I can see where ANY motorist may have snuck thru. I nearly got run over at an scene not properly protected.

 

[33 IMP]

It took me a while to realize it too. At first I thought they were Google cars taking pictures. Then my brother told me.

Look at the pictures I posted an see if you notice one. They are in dense metro areas: WLA, SM, beach communities that you see more taxis in. Maybe in Downtown Pasadena near you.

Nearest dense metro area to me is L.A.
I avoid it like the plague!
I notice a lot more taxis here in AZ than I do in my local CA area. Probably cause there is no bus service here to speak of. (Maybe senior med transport, but I haven't needed that yet)
I called a cab company to find out how much it would cost to take me to the Amtrak station...... I made my gf take me instead. The cab was nuts!

 

[Detective D]

The more of this stuff that comes out, the more I am convinced technology of the last 25 years has both made life easier, and made life increasingly more miserable with less possibility for joy and freedom in various ways.
Very, VERY few books and movies or other fiction and semi-fiction have future worlds with super high tech and overwhelmingly happy citizens. Humanity seems determined to make any one of those futures into reality where tech and someone else decides our life for us and all we need to do is push a button. Isn't life easy? you may have little choice in anything that happens in your life or how you live it but all you have to do is watch screens and push a button once in a while. What a bright, sunshiny future to look forward to.

They can keep their robo cars in the big city. I will remain in BFE avoiding that crap as long as I can. I don;t understand who would want this. At no point in my life, even growing up with Star Wars and Back to the Future and all the other 80's sci fi stuff in literature and movies, at no point ever did I think to myself a self driving car would be cool. Quite the opposite, I couldn't wait to drive tractors or trucks or cars when I was as little as 4 years old. Space ships on auto pilot? WTF? Why would you want to do nothing when you could fly a space ship through outer space?( sci fi)
And yet here we are, millions being spent and people eagerly looking forward to letting a computer ship them to a location like mail so they have more time to stare at a screen.
Self driving cars turn people into packages. Pay the postage and the self driving car will pick you up and deliver you.
F that. I am not mail.

 

[OneWheelPeel]

The more of this stuff that comes out, the more I am convinced technology of the last 25 years has both made life easier, and made life increasingly more miserable with less possibility for joy and freedom in various ways.
Very, VERY few books and movies or other fiction and semi-fiction have future worlds with super high tech and overwhelmingly happy citizens. Humanity seems determined to make any one of those futures into reality where tech and someone else decides our life for us and all we need to do is push a button. Isn't life easy? you may have little choice in anything that happens in your life or how you live it but all you have to do is watch screens and push a button once in a while. What a bright, sunshiny future to look forward to.

They can keep their robo cars in the big city. I will remain in BFE avoiding that crap as long as I can. I don;t understand who would want this. At no point in my life, even growing up with Star Wars and Back to the Future and all the other 80's sci fi stuff in literature and movies, at no point ever did I think to myself a self driving car would be cool. Quite the opposite, I couldn't wait to drive tractors or trucks or cars when I was as little as 4 years old. Space ships on auto pilot? WTF? Why would you want to do nothing when you could fly a space ship through outer space?( sci fi)
And yet here we are, millions being spent and people eagerly looking forward to letting a computer ship them to a location like mail so they have more time to stare at a screen.
Self driving cars turn people into packages. Pay the postage and the self driving car will pick you up and deliver you.
F that. I am not mail.

I agree with most of that and have watched a ton of sci fi. I’d rather drive myself but still think having KITT would be cool. But even in the show the guy preferred to drive most of the time.