From: atropos@mac.com
On Feb 3, 2026 at 7:36:42 AM PST, "shawn"
wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Feb 2026 04:38:08 -0700, anim8rfsk
> wrote:
>
>> shawn wrote:
>>> On Tue, 3 Feb 2026 00:34:12 -0700, 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.
>>>
>>> Really? All the videos I've seen on Youtube show a driverless vehicle.
>>> Only human available is from their dispatch over a voice line. Though
>>> I suppose some areas may require a person in the driver's seat.
>>>
>>
>> Yeah, they don’t do anything, they just sit there and read a book or a
>> magazine.
>
> Looked it up on Google and the rule is anyone can sit in the driver's
> seat but they can't drive. If they try to drive the vehicle will pull
> over to the side of the road and end the ride. So you could see people
> behind the wheel but, as you saw, they won't be doing any driving.
>
> I could see if I was using a Waymo vehicle I would want to be in the
> driver's seat if only because it feels more comfortable to me than say
> being in the back seat. Being in the back seat always makes me
> vulnerable to motion sickness that I don't get when driving.
The problem with using Waymos in a low-trust society like you find in most
blue cities is that the thugs know the things are programmed to stop for
people in the roadway and not do anything that might risk hitting or injury
them. When you're in your own car (or even an Uber), the human behind the
wheel can recognize the second order danger and choose to accelerate away,
even it means hitting a criminal in the process. The Waymo cannot make that
decision. So when a thug walks out in front of a Waymo, its software just
forces it to stop and leave you vulnerable to the diversity that will then
surround the car and rob you. (Possibly do worse if the customer is female.)
This has happened many times in L.A., which makes using a Waymo like playing
Russian roulette.
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