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goals as an actor: to have the resume of that damn green and gold desk lamp

you would not believe the roles she's landed. she has the range.

A Waymo vehicle delivered two 15-year-olds, who were drinking alcohol and shooting small water beads out of the car, straight to police.

I'm sure it's totally fine and normal and great that the taxi spies on you and will just deliver you directly to the police :)

This definitely can't be something that would be used in an abusive or arbitrary way :)

Law enforcement for sure wouldn't abuse something like this :)

puipui-official

This was predicted in 2015

I got into the passenger seat. There wasn't a driver seat. But after two turns, something felt wrong: the self-driving Taxy was heading the

doyoulovethewayzeylily

just off the top of my head, this has been a common scifi trope since at least the 90s. pretty easy to predict

cognitiveinequality

tanoraqui

TO BE CLEAR, the “AI” “driver” of the car did not alert the police or do anything else. A human employee of Waymo was remotely observing the passengers through the car’s many internal cameras, and they alerted the police and remotely made the car pull over. It does not seem to be public knowledge why a Waymo employee was remotely observing this particular car.

Two 15-year-olds on a Waymo joyride were intercepted by police and detained for underaged drinking and shooting Orbeez gel blasters from the

This doesn’t make the whole thing less dystopian, nor even very much less cyberpunk. But we should be clear on the details.

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mandywondering

I mean, in some very interesting Technically Correct ways, they didn't actually die? Now, they're very much no longer alive. But the forces involved are such that they didn't get any of the usual cellular processes of death, they simply went from biology to physics in less time than it takes a signal to travel down your optic nerve.

dietspam16

if you go from biology to physics without dying first you don’t go to heaven the uber driver went over this already

usersieun

Everything Everywhere All at Once — 2022, dir. Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert

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pangur-and-grim

I told my little nephew that I'd wave at his airplane when it flew over my house today, and he very calmly and politely explained that it wouldn't be possible to see me due to the limitations of human vision. I said he just had to squint real hard, and he took a deep breath and went into the toddler version of "see, what you're not understanding–"

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