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Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYU2hAbx_Fc
53•notgloating•2h ago
https://x.com/fulligin/status/2003925653113184498

https://xcancel.com/fulligin/status/2003925653113184498

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Mawr•1h ago
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akanet•1h ago
Most of it is not drone, but you have to think a bit about the angle and duration to realize this. Merry Christmas
blazingbanana•1h ago
I actually quite liked it, was somehow soothing, especially the car park that was used as a temporary location during the night.
dang•1h ago
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)

nullc•51m ago
It isn't what you were expecting-- but it's really good. Give it another look with no expectations.
HolySE•1h ago
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.
ramraj07•19m ago
I had to look up indolence. At least for the time being im not indolent enough not to look up such things I suppose.
clemo_ra•56m ago
This is cool and soothing. Merry xmas
lateforwork•29m ago
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?
bgwalter•25m ago
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...

soulofmischief•17m ago
https://archive.is/KvK7D
Sophira•17m ago
If anybody is wondering, the music in this video appears to be "Alonia" by Valante. Very soothing.
fabiensanglard•12m ago
Thank you, I was about to start searching for it :) !
netsharc•14m ago
Makes me think of Miniatur Wunderland's "self-charging" system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC8aOLWR134

It's the world most complex model railway with cars (not just trains) that go around in predetermined routes, and also go to the charging station when their battery is low. And I guess Waymos are a version of that but with human-scale! (Oh they still need humans to plug the charging cables into them).

I wonder if they park themselves or if the maintenance people park them...

Also, the footage feels like Satellite Reign https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFZVXG0g40Q (or the original game, Syndicate Wars)

transitorykris•8m ago
Watch the Zoox test vehicles please. They do absolutely terrifying things, _in every encounter_.
Fricken•6m ago
Getting Bladerunner vibes from several things but mostly that giant translucent synthwave Marco Cochrane statue.