The future is now. I’ve been awaiting the arrival of autonomous vehicles with bated breath for the better part of the last 10 years. Now, I’ve had friends that have ridden in some. They’re starting to pop up on city streets. And, we’re inching closer and closer to these driverless cars being more integrated into our society. I still don’t know how willing I am going to be to hop in one of these things. Seems like this is the type of thing that I’ll wait for y’all to get on the first few rounds before I hop in. Let ’em work out the kinks.
Take this story from ABC7, for example. Residents of a San Francisco neighborhood have been waking up at 4AM to hear the Waymo cars honking at each other. I think the optimistic view of this is that we’re all just working out the kinks here, like I said above. Something has just gone haywire, and these things are bonking off in the middle of the night. Seems harmless enough, right?
Well, what has science fiction taught us? The robots always come to life and threaten the existence of humanity. I think we would be wise to heed that warning. The pessimistic view of what’s happening here is that the Waymo cars are coming to life at night and communicating their master plan to take over the Earth and enslave humans. I’m not opposed to the idea as long as they let me read books. I think I could live a rather nice existence in a people zoo with the right conditions just leisurely living out my days. Anyway, that’s neither here nor there. I think efforts should be put into place to study the communication between autonomous vehicles so that we can learn what they’re saying to each other. Don’t wait until it’s too late – write your local politicians today. Also, if Waymo’s lawyers get ahold of this post, this is total satire. I’m not accusing anyone of taking over the world.
Stoney Keeley is the Editor in Chief of The SoBros Network, and a Dogs Playing Poker on velvet connoisseur. He is a strong supporter of Team GSD, #BeBetter, and ‘Minds right, asses tight.’ “Big Natural” covers the Tennessee Titans, Nashville, Yankee Candle, and a whole wealth of nonsense. Follow on Twitter @StoneyKeeley.
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