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   BTR1701 to anim8rfsk@cox.net   
   Re: [political OT] anyone run into this    
   03 Feb 26 18:46:18   
   
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   From: atropos@mac.com   
      
   On Feb 2, 2026 at 11:34:12 PM PST, "anim8rfsk"  wrote:   
      
   > BTR1701  wrote:   
   >>  On Feb 2, 2026 at 7:18:38 PM PST, "danny burstein"    
   wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>  apologies for this descent into kkkkkray-kkkkray, but I haven't   
   >>>  found a single other source for this claim.  Given a bunch   
   >>>  of people here live and breath searching (and rambling..)   
   >>>  about this stuff, I figured I'd ask.  Please be gentle.   
   >>>  =============   
   >>>  I haven't seen a single word about this in either reality   
   >>>  based, or tangentially attached kookery, but wondering if   
   >>>  it's way, way, out there:   
   >>>   
   >>>  In an article about Tesla getting initial approval of   
   >>>  running "autonomous" taxi type vehicles in Israel (with,   
   >>>  for now, a saftey driver) [a], a reader commented:   
   >>>   
   >>>  "Don't forget that in LA fake prepaid credit-card accounts recently hired   
   >>>  Waymo   
   >>>  self driving taxis to drive passengerless loaded fully with explosive   
   >>>  incendiary devices to protest sites.   
   >>>   
   >>>  "hmmmmm.   
   >>>   
   >>>  "Do not allow until some form of infrared heat detection of a live human   
   >>>  inside."   
   >>   
   >>  How would that work? Requiring a live human in the car would basically put   
   >>  Waymo out of business. The whole point is that these are driverless,   
   >>  autonomous cars. Sure, when they're delivering someone to their   
   destination,   
   >>  there will be a human inside, but after drop-off and before it picks up the   
   >>  next passenger it will be empty. How does it get to the next rider if it   
   >> can't   
   >>  drive without a human inside?   
   >   
   > I’ve never seen a Waymo that didn’t have a person behind the wheel.   
      
   They drive around completely empty all around L.A.   
      
   Whenever our bi-monthly riots kick off, invariably one of the rioters calls a   
   bunch of Waymos and when they arrive, they attack them and set them on fire.   
      
   https://ibb.co/Q7W4Z9vd   
      
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