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Dozens of empty Waymos invade neighborhood in Atlanta leaving neighbors baffled
(www.the-independent.com)
Nahh they’re just looking for the break room
this post was submitted on 17 May 2026
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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)
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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.
Haha, get fucked, Buckhead.
(For reference, that's where the rich assholes live.)
But also fuck Waymo, of course.
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Free tires. 🤷
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.
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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.
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