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Self-driving Waymo cars keep SF residents awake all night by honking at each other (arstechnica.com)

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[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 74 points 3 months ago

welcomed Waymo's presence, expecting it to enhance local security and tranquility

what? how could it do anything for “local security and tranquility”?

[-] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 108 points 3 months ago

I didn't really get this either.

I did think the final paragraph was notable, a "zeitgeist of our times" if you will:

The absurdity of the situation prompted tech author and journalist James Vincent to write on X, "current tech trends are resistant to satire precisely because they satirize themselves. a car park of empty cars, honking at one another, nudging back and forth to drop off nobody, is a perfect image of tech serving its own prerogatives rather than humanity’s."

[-] zecg@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

a "zeitgeist of our times"

An ATM machine

[-] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Zeitgeist could refer to the past though.

Nirvana was part of the zeitgeist of the 90s.

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