Waymos (ghost cars) scare me. That's too much future right there. I better get used to them though. When will there be more driverless cars on the road than ones with a human behind the wheel?
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That's a no from me. Recurring nightmares from childhood, of waking up in the backseat of a car without a driver.
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Good morning, Ross 🫂
Humanoids all around will be way more interesting
Hola Ross
I used one the other day for the first time. I was honestly impressed with the driving ability. The surveillance aspect is concerning, but I imagine they will continue to take market share away from city Uber drivers.
Yesterday I was told that the Waymo back end is still very manual. Construction zones have to be updated by humans. It's not fully autonomous yet.
Without a human behind the wheel, how would we get trustworthy news?
I think the earliest it could possibly happen (majority driverless) would be about 2030
No one is ready for this dystopian future
Why the fuck would you get used to them?
Stay away from them as much as you can and plan to kill the people deploying them, they endanger everyone's lives
Man, same. I wont touch one with an 80ft pole.
My friend just told me she witnessed a robotic landowner obliterate a flower bed of tulips. I for some reason tought: mm, modernity x)
No waymo I'm getting in one of dem
Gm Ross
It's still not clear to me that Waymo scales...
And besides, the problem with cars isn't that there are human drivers. It's that relative to trains they're an inefficient way of moving large numbers of people around urban areas of any reasonable density.
Yeah I have mixed feelings about it... it's pretty damn cool, but the dystopian possibilities are worrying.
I’m scared too Ross, but so long as we have each other I think we’ll be safe.
Now come the days of robotic landowners we, the serfs, working it for them.
That is good. You'd probably be charged with destruction of property.
I wonder how insurance will work on driverless cars. If you own one but are not driving it who has to pay insurance?🤔
coming soon brother
Must be a trip after all that time
If/when driveless is perfected, then accidents will be mostly, if not solely, due to human error. Because of this, insurance rates for human operated vehicles will price many out of operating one. So I hear.
can't we just get rid of roads and use automated tracks instead?
Don’t be scared about the future - embrace it 🗽
Almost feels that way in SF right now. The scary part is that people are learning how to take advantage of the Waymo rule following and so I’m guessing the roads get more nutty before the tipping point where most vehicles have some level of computer-support - and in theory the traffic flow and safety show noticeable improvement. But when they decide to turn those big robots on wheels against us, watch out. Your robot-car could lock the doors and drive you to the Federal Deportation Center and you’re shit outta luck! SkyNet will have arrived :)
Maybe by next halving
I'll never support these dystopian surveillance cameras on wheels.
And what about the cameras on cell phones, tablets and laptops? 👁️
We don't support these either 😠
The average driver scares me way more
When I can run the processing of the data locally and none of it is ever sent to a third party, I will be interested.
Try Tesla FSD, it’s wild and really good. The future is here.
Hopefully cryptography and sound money can secure us from shenanigans
But will you get in most Uber/Lyfts?
Everytime I see one I’m super cautious around them.
Next decade probably. Ghost cars will be way safer than human operated ones.
how are they taking advantage?
We were promised ubiquitous fully driverless cars, ubiquitous 3D printers good enough to print most household goods and ubiquitious drone delivery (including for pizzas) by now. We've been let down.
I don't think they will become popular until they are smart enough to get out of the way when I honk and flip them off.
(Advantage = driving, not financial) You can merge right in front of them, walk in front of them, turn in front of them etc… at the moment, they will always yield to something potentially risky- which means if you know how they’ll react, you can take advantage of their conservative risk-averse programming.
when the robots take over it will be the opposite 😂
Since I can’t drive vehicles, for sure I’ll blend in very well ⚡️😍
Humans have become much worse drivers over the last decade or two.
I'm more confident in AI and given time AI will continue to improve while humans will likely continue to get worse at driving.
Imagine you would like to escape gov tyranny at one point and the only vehicles around are these robot cars.
Yeah, no...
Not my future
Imagine you're coming from the library, getting into a Waymo, and it takes you directly to prison
No clue Ross, but I’m reluctant to. There’s a freedom in driving your own car. I will always choose sovereignty over a corruptible system
Ghost cars are creepy. The future is here, whether we like it or not. Driverless cars taking over? Probably sooner than you think.
One of these robot autonomous abominations owe my wife some cheesy fries.
A year or two ago I was driving home at night and I picked up some fast food.
Two lanes, both one way driving in the same direction. Waymo in the left lane, me in the right. No cars anywhere around, just me and IT. I went to pass by the Waymo and it aggressively swerved into my lane and I hit the brakes. Cheesy Fries flew onto my passenger floor board. REKT.
The upcoming stop light I pulled up next to IT and there was no one driving.
Wife called Waymo to complain, robots answer. No real person to talk to.
It’s a weird feeling getting fucked over by a robot with no course of retribution or any accountability by the system which designed it.
Welcome to autonomy…
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And I’m sure a ton of Teslas with humans behind the wheel are driving themselves too
You get in your car one day and say "grocery store please" but it takes you to the reeducation camp instead.
Sooner than you think! The biggest losers will be multi level carpark owners, local council and governments that earn their lion share of revenue from parking fines, garage builders and the people who drive vehicles. Watch this space 👀
What’s killed more people? The drugs sold on the Silk Road or Waymo cars?