HumToTable3d ago
I'm either a cranky old lady or a reveloutionary. Or a simple Luddite. Who can say? But I'm jaw-droppingly surprised at the number of times I've been hearing "I used ChapGPT to..." lately from people who are not stupid and can write or research or whatever themselves. I don't begrudge a decent tool, but the fact that very intelligent, well-informed folks don't connect the dots from the art theft and giant drain on power grids to this convenience tool blows my mind.
End rant. 😔
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And in the same spirit of me as old lady raging against the machine, I encountered a whole parade of Waymo cars while driving down 19th Ave in San Francisco yesterday. In addition to seeing one run a red light, they had their wipers going. If there's no driver, why do the windshield wipers need to be on? 🤔
Show threadAutumn Meadow3d ago

@HumToTable
To ensure everyone else can see that the car has no driver. This will encourage humans to use caution around the car, making the car look like it's driving with a greater success rate than it actually does.

I'm probably giving them too much credit for thinking that far ahead, but it's the only quasi-logical reason I can think of.

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@meadow @HumToTable I think it may be a simpler reason. They are modified cars to become AV's. They have rain sensors like many other cars. But if you were riding one you probably would want to see the road too. I sure would.
Apr 11 at 6:41pmWeb
Show threadAutumn Meadow3d ago

@alper
That's a good point. I often forget my newer vehicle has automated wipers. When you don't actively interact with something, you don't think about it.

I strongly suspect you are right.
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