• breadsmasher@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    welcomed Waymo’s presence, expecting it to enhance local security and tranquility

    what? how could it do anything for “local security and tranquility”?

    • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      I didn’t really get this either.

      I did think the final paragraph was notable, a “zeitgeist of our times” if you will:

      The absurdity of the situation prompted tech author and journalist James Vincent to write on X, “current tech trends are resistant to satire precisely because they satirize themselves. a car park of empty cars, honking at one another, nudging back and forth to drop off nobody, is a perfect image of tech serving its own prerogatives rather than humanity’s.”

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      1 year ago

      My coworker feels more comfortable cycling around the Waymo’s than human drivers.

      As in, they are already more considerate than humans.