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Waymo car swarmed by skaters in San Francisco 'hill bomb'

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Re: Waymo car swarmed by skaters in San Francisco 'hill bomb'

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Post by hoseja »

googlryas wrote: post #72
rgifford wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I worry about egg stains on sweatshirts too. Some folks join us with age. Others live life right up to the brim, good for em I say. The world needs all kinds. Reminds me of Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake. It's this race in Gloucester, England. It's been going on since the early 1800s. Folks run down a 45 degree hill for 200 yards to catch a 10 pound rolling cheese wheel. It's as dangerous as it sounds, but fun…

Or we can just install speed bumps/dots on every hilly street and let young people figure out a different way to being needlessly reckless. You're saying "good for em I say" to people who give themselves traumatic brain injuries and kill random innocent people: https://sfist.com/2020/07/20/city-installs-raised-dots-on-do... https://sfist.com/2019/07/20/well-known-skateboarder-tomoko-... If they have some private hill…

I REALLY don't understand appeals to safety when you then fail to mention the astounding death-toll of car transportation.

Re: Waymo car swarmed by skaters in San Francisco 'hill bomb'

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Post by danw1979 »

Gigachad wrote: post #57
AirMax98 wrote: post #54

The way we build cities around the car in the USA is kind of a blight, so I can't help but be somewhat relieved to see that other people look at these Waymo cars, with all that they stand for, as worthy of ridicule.

When car tech gets good enough to avoid almost all incidents with people, something drastic is going to happen. Naturally everyone will just step out on the road causing the cars to stop. So either driving through a city will become a situation you avoid if at all possible, or governments install fences and barriers everywhere and make walking without right of way a serious crime.

Being able to freely walk across the road knowing that I have right of way and that the traffic is guaranteed to stop and let me pass sounds like like paradise compared to how things are currently.

I’m not sure I’d be all that sympathetic to those drivers (passengers ?) who wouldn’t take their car into the city because of those pesky pedestrians!

Re: Waymo car swarmed by skaters in San Francisco 'hill bomb'

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Post by jaclaz »

thatswrong0 wrote: post #56
jeffbee wrote: post #12

Not that I think jumping on the top of someone's car is obviously justified, but I am honestly curious how the car got to this point. Wouldn't it have had to drive past hundreds of people into what was obviously a large gathering to get here?

I was actually there for this event (just as a spectator): most of the people were gathered down at the intersection. The car came down the hill, and then it slowed down as it approaching the intersection because there were.. obviously a ton of people in the intersection. _Then_ everyone swarmed the car / surrounded it / jumped on it / tagged it. It basically didn't move while this was happening. Then eventually the…

But according to the article the car had a driver in it, that "got out safely".

Besides the car being a Waymo (which may or may not be part of the reason why it was "swarmed"), it must not have been such a great experience for the driver to be circled and have people jumping on the car bonnet and roof, I guess it could have happened to any car happening to pass by that intersection.

Re: Waymo car swarmed by skaters in San Francisco 'hill bomb'

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Post by nradov »

mullingitover wrote: post #38

Oof, these poor kids. I can't imagine what's going to happen to them financially, but I feel like doing a lot of property damage to a vehicle that's bristling with high resolution cameras, in the age of easy facial recognition, is going to have consequences. Maybe they're just so privileged that their default expectation is that their parents will bail them out of anything, and maybe they're right.

Property crimes aren't really prosecuted in SF. Perhaps that will change somewhat with the new DA, but serious consequences are unlikely. (I'm just stating the reality of the situation, not trying to excuse or justify it.)

Re: Waymo car swarmed by skaters in San Francisco 'hill bomb'

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Post by nradov »

Gigachad wrote: post #57
AirMax98 wrote: post #54

The way we build cities around the car in the USA is kind of a blight, so I can't help but be somewhat relieved to see that other people look at these Waymo cars, with all that they stand for, as worthy of ridicule.

When car tech gets good enough to avoid almost all incidents with people, something drastic is going to happen. Naturally everyone will just step out on the road causing the cars to stop. So either driving through a city will become a situation you avoid if at all possible, or governments install fences and barriers everywhere and make walking without right of way a serious crime.

Cars without advanced automatic collision avoidance systems are going to be on the road for decades to come.

Re: Waymo car swarmed by skaters in San Francisco 'hill bomb'

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Post by Melting_Harps »

dahdum wrote: post #70

I don't see the "hill bomb", but I see a bunch of kids swarming and climbing on a stopped car with, I'd wager, a frightened driver inside. Seems like those kids are lucky the driver didn't floor it trying to protect themselves.

> I don't see the "hill bomb", but I see a bunch of kids swarming and climbing on a stopped car with, I'd wager, a frightened driver inside.

It's all there in that video [0], I must caveat and say it's not my preferred source just the 1st I saw on YT with both events, and it seems the Waymo event was an after-event party antic.

Considering how devastated the Bay Area looks like now with mass homelessness and immense wealth inequality (we saw a glimpse of how volatile those two look like in 2020-21 on local businesses) if a scratched or damaged waymo car is the worst that happened that day I'd say they got off easy, hell waymo got free PR as it was shared all over social and normal media. They can use it as a KPI for their marketing team.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJO3_UADLGk

Re: Waymo car swarmed by skaters in San Francisco 'hill bomb'

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Post by Melting_Harps »

vecinu wrote: post #44
jeffbee wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Joking, I assume? These make the news here because they are news. They wouldn't make the news in Indiana, the world capital of freeway shootings.

I doubt the OP is joking. I left the Bay exactly for reasons like this, I don't want to become collateral damage due to factors outside of my control that are well documented and happening way too often for my liking. Even a few years later, it still surprises me that people in the Bay normalize this type of activity but I guess Stockholm syndrome is strong in the average person.

> Even a few years later, it still surprises me that people in the Bay normalize this type of activity but I guess Stockholm syndrome is strong in the average person.

California born and raised: California was never safe since it's inception as it was always the most renown frontier in the US; it's just where fortunes could be made in a person's lifetime. If you are honest with yourself you also came for the money/title/status and told yourself that because you live in a certain zip code with billionaires it also somehow confers some sort of safety on to you... I saw this play out during COVID and so many who thought that they were somehow residually part of the elite got a rude wakeup call when all the riots and crime shot up. The smart ones took their real estate exit money and left for good.

If I'm honest it's like a form of Stockholm syndrome, but it's more like a trophy wife staying in a toxic relationship because she'd have to get used to real life once she ventured outside of a very persuasive bubble existence--at least in the bubble she can take all the xanax and cosmo chasers to normalize the craziness around them. Their is a reason why Cyberpunk 2077 was based in California, the lore just lends itself so well to it and it's why I think it resonated so well for those from there.

I also left, and now live on the other side of the World, and I really have no desire of going back until <50% of you people leave so I can finally go back home.

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Post by Pakdef »

dxbydt wrote: post #9
dredmorbius wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bibliogram is an alternative interface to Instagram: https://bibliogram.art/p/Cf2FPFsPZeD/ (Similar to Nitter -> Twitter, Invidious -> YouTube, and Teddit -> Reddit.) Speaking of which: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=TJO3_UADLGk

was looking at your link and found this - https://bibliogram.art/p/Cfsna30F2h- WTF is going on over there ?! So glad I'm safe in the boring midwest.

I had a road rage woman in Florida point a gun at me on the highway... but she didn't shoot

Re: Waymo car swarmed by skaters in San Francisco 'hill bomb'

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Post by sschueller »

bko wrote: post #4

Watching videos of this event reminds me of a comedian's bit where he talks about watching Rocky when he was young versus today. When he was young, he would cheer Rocky on while eating those raw eggs. When he watched it when he was older he thought about how hard it would be to get those egg stains off his sweatshirt. I guess that's all to say that I am of the age where I see a bunch of young men shutting down a stre…

I worry about the fact that those are raw non pasteurized eggs.

Re: Waymo car swarmed by skaters in San Francisco 'hill bomb'

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Post by lancesells »

Gigachad wrote: post #57
AirMax98 wrote: post #54

The way we build cities around the car in the USA is kind of a blight, so I can't help but be somewhat relieved to see that other people look at these Waymo cars, with all that they stand for, as worthy of ridicule.

When car tech gets good enough to avoid almost all incidents with people, something drastic is going to happen. Naturally everyone will just step out on the road causing the cars to stop. So either driving through a city will become a situation you avoid if at all possible, or governments install fences and barriers everywhere and make walking without right of way a serious crime.

I think for a time there will be a lot of anger taken out on these driverless cars if they ever actually come to fruition. People are going to see these corporate ghost cars riding around without passengers and take out their frustrations on them because it's no longer someone's personal car it's a souless robot.
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