Saw my first totally driverless car today

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So i've seen these normal looking cars with the sensors all over them that say "driverless car" but it appears that there is always someone behind the wheel who is actively driving. Well today im going to work on a main street doing the speed limit 45 and a weird looking car in front of me merges into my lane due to construction cones. Once we passed it merged back to the right lane and I sped up and looked inside and it was completely empty. No passengers, no driver, no one. The front seats faced backwards like a ski gondola. The future is here boys.

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That thing is a monstrosity! I live in Phoenix Arizona but work in Scottsdale. Waymo is the driverless car company out there. It's always weird passing one as it turns its blinker on or stops or makes a turn. If I was in my twenties I would purposely break in front of it just to see what happens. I'm an older man now and just can't bring myself to do it.

A co-worker said he was in one and it started to rain but it does not turn on the windshield wipers. He said it was a weird feeling not being able to see.
 
Never saw one of those, but did see one of the Google Maps cars with many cameras on the rooftop.
 
So i've seen these normal looking cars with the sensors all over them that say "driverless car" but it appears that there is always someone behind the wheel who is actively driving. Well today im going to work on a main street doing the speed limit 45 and a weird looking car in front of me merges into my lane due to construction cones. Once we passed it merged back to the right lane and I sped up and looked inside and it was completely empty. No passengers, no driver, no one. The front seats faced backwards like a ski gondola. The future is here boys.

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I was in one of those Waymo cars in SF recently, and I gotta say it was pretty impressive. Not only did it avoid hitting all the homeless junkies, it even know when to run a yellow light

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This will work in Japan, S. Korea and Nordic countries, but not in places like the US.
 
Never saw one of those, but did see one of the Google Maps cars with many cameras on the rooftop.


We had one park up at the train station I work from for months . It disappeared during the day and returned to there in the afternoon. Never saw anyone drive it or where it went to during the day. Presumably it stayed there and went recording during the day. Never found out of the driver was in a hotel ( if so , why not use their parking?) or lived locally....
 
Yea they used to test these in my neighbourhood

Crazy stuff when you see empty car
 
That thing is a monstrosity! I live in Phoenix Arizona but work in Scottsdale. Waymo is the driverless car company out there. It's always weird passing one as it turns its blinker on or stops or makes a turn. If I was in my twenties I would purposely break in front of it just to see what happens. I'm an older man now and just can't bring myself to do it.

A co-worker said he was in one and it started to rain but it does not turn on the windshield wipers. He said it was a weird feeling not being able to see.
We have those here in the city too. Someone found out if you put a traffic cone on the hood they wont move so people have been doing that and stalling traffic. They also lit one on fire.
 
Crazy.

I rode passenger in a Ford truck that self drove on the highway for about 3 hours. It was strange at first but normal by the end.
 
That thing is a monstrosity! I live in Phoenix Arizona but work in Scottsdale. Waymo is the driverless car company out there. It's always weird passing one as it turns its blinker on or stops or makes a turn. If I was in my twenties I would purposely break in front of it just to see what happens. I'm an older man now and just can't bring myself to do it.

A co-worker said he was in one and it started to rain but it does not turn on the windshield wipers. He said it was a weird feeling not being able to see.
I saw them the first time last year when I went back to visit family. I was behind one in Scottsdale and it took me far too long to realize no one was in it.
 
Who is down to try to pick up chicks in that thing? I'm up for a challenge.
 
How do cops deal with this thing if it commits a traffic violation
 
somehow i was expecting to see a picture of John Cena driving his car
 
Minority report is coming...

 
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