Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video]

That art fixture's placement at the Mission Waymo Depot is kinda cool. It's evocative of a future in which humanity lives a life of indolence propped up by automation.

Re: Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video]

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Post by dang » Thu, Dec 25, 2025, 1:17 AM UTC

Mawr wrote: post #2

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Could you please review and follow the site guidelines? "Oh, who cares." is not an ok way to respond to someone's work on HN, and is particularly bad when a thread is just getting underway.

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(of course I understand that it's disappointing when you're hoping for certain content and end up with something else, but still - please don't express that in a hostile way)

Re: Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video]

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Post by clemo_ra » Thu, Dec 25, 2025, 1:36 AM UTC

This is cool and soothing. Merry xmas

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Post by nullc » Thu, Dec 25, 2025, 1:41 AM UTC

Mawr wrote: post #2

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It isn't what you were expecting-- but it's really good. Give it another look with no expectations.

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Post by lateforwork » Thu, Dec 25, 2025, 2:03 AM UTC

Seeing all these Waymos together like this... is depressing. You get a sense of the scale at which machines are replacing humans. This could be a scary movie made in 1970s about the robotic future... and that future has now arrived. What will the world look like 10, 20 years from now? What would a scary movie made today contain?

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Post by bgwalter » Thu, Dec 25, 2025, 2:07 AM UTC

There are also neighborhood self-help groups who try to "stack" the Waymos into alleys so that they can sleep:

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/25/us/santa-monica-waymo-bat...