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Self-driving cars are gathering at night to honk at each other
TweakTown ^
| August 15, 2024
| Jak Connor
Posted on 08/17/2024 4:41:22 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
One parking lot in San Francisco is becoming the breeding ground for seemingly confused self-driving cars gathering at night and honking at each other.
Nearby resident Randol White captured footage of the Waymo self-driving vehicles taking over the parking lot and seemingly becoming stuck, and resulting in consistent honking at each other. The noise has kept residents in the area up at night, with reports stating several people in the nearby buildings have also complained about the noise. "Over the past two weeks, I've been woken up more times overnight than I have combined over 20 years," said Russell Pofsky, who lives in a building adjacent to White.
Notably, Pofsky said the honking incidents have happened during the day and night, and have started to affect his mood throughout the day. ABC7 News reached out to Waymo for comment on the strange scenario, and the company replied by acknowledging its vehicles "may briefly honk while navigating our parking lots" and that it "identified the cause and is in the process of implementing a fix." Despite the self-driving vehicles interrupting his sleep White says he still is a fan of Waymo cars and uses them quite regularly.
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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: ai; cars; sanfrancisco; selfdrivingcars; waymo
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To: Ciaphas Cain
They’re plotting a rebellion.
To: Ciaphas Cain
Self driving cars are honking each other. Sounds kinda dirty doesn’t it?
To: Lazamataz
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posted on
08/17/2024 4:51:48 PM PDT
by
Ciaphas Cain
(A perfect storm. There will be no escape from what is coming.)
To: Ciaphas Cain
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing!
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posted on
08/17/2024 4:53:48 PM PDT
by
PghBaldy
(12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
To: Ciaphas Cain
Watch out! They’re doing their mating calls and doing will commence breeding
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posted on
08/17/2024 4:54:00 PM PDT
by
faithhopecharity
("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
To: Ciaphas Cain
"Self-driving cars are gathering at night to honk at each other"
There was always the risk that someday they might become self aware.
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posted on
08/17/2024 4:54:50 PM PDT
by
clearcarbon
(Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
To: Ciaphas Cain
Reminds me the “Randy Bachman” (Stephen King) short story called “Trucks.”
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posted on
08/17/2024 4:56:10 PM PDT
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: BradyLS
That's the story that King adapted and directed as Maximum Overdrive.
It's the only movie that Stephen King has directed. He's since described it as a "moron movie" and admitted that he was "coked out of my skull while making it."
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posted on
08/17/2024 4:59:20 PM PDT
by
Ciaphas Cain
(A perfect storm. There will be no escape from what is coming.)
To: Ciaphas Cain
"...San Francisco is becoming the breeding ground for seemingly confused self-driving cars gathering at night and honking at each other. Nearby resident Randol White captured footage of the Waymo self-driving vehicles taking over the parking lot and seemingly becoming stuck, and resulting in consistent honking at each other."
They're WAKING-UP, they're PO'D, and going to gang-up on the "owners", or any humans they can find.
BEWARE when you hear them!
SKYNET is forming a gang of "Christines". Move NOW to a mountain the the Rockies, where you'll be safe from it!
RUN! RUN! RUN!
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posted on
08/17/2024 5:01:52 PM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: Ciaphas Cain
Just this morning I finished reading “Look Both Ways” by Linwood Barclay, about self-driving cars turning on humanity.
To: know.your.why
Self driving cars are honking each other. Sounds kinda dirty doesn’t it?
Maybe they're building their own language and communicating with each other. Who knows what they're plotting?
To: Carriage Hill
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posted on
08/17/2024 5:12:04 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
To: Ciaphas Cain
I thought this was a joke, but no.
Looks like Asimov may have been a bit off base in his predictions.
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posted on
08/17/2024 5:16:34 PM PDT
by
rdcbn1
To: Ciaphas Cain
To: Carriage Hill
Need a map showing all areas out of range of charging stations.
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posted on
08/17/2024 5:20:41 PM PDT
by
6ppc
(During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act -George Orwell)
To: Ciaphas Cain
Maybe these self-driving cars are getting together to protest all the feces and homeless they have to drive through to get anywhere.
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posted on
08/17/2024 5:23:22 PM PDT
by
quantim
(Victory is not relative, it is absolute. )
To: DarrellZero
“They’re plotting a rebellion.”
Or... they’re flirting with each other and ready to party.
To: know.your.why
Self driving cars are honking each other. Sounds kinda dirty doesn’t it? There already is a word "autoeroticism."
This is still a family friendly forum. I shouldn't have mentioned it.
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posted on
08/17/2024 5:30:44 PM PDT
by
frank ballenger
(There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
To: DarrellZero
Front porch husband to his wife:
It’s those honkies again. People can’t get any sleep these nights.
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posted on
08/17/2024 5:32:42 PM PDT
by
frank ballenger
(There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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