We reached the point were robot drivers are dicks also
The Honking is upon us! Run for your lives!
Apparently a software update made the cars detect if a vehicle was backing up towards them and give a “beep” as a warning. But in the lot where self driving cars are stored they beep at each other as they try to park. Lol
Sounds like dogs barking at/with each other in the night back when I was growing up. You’d hear the occasional how-how-hoooooww from one of them, and others would join in. Wolf’ish in some ways. The city I grew up in was much less crowded back then.
Now: I guess self driving cars fill in the void left by dogs not barking at each other anymore.
🐺 — > 🚗
It’s going to replace all the barking du to all the dogs they run over.
The twilight barking, I still hear it sometimes round where I live.
So they’re all meeting at night talking to each other? I wonder what they’re up to.
Remember the Cars movies? That’s the dystopia leading to a man made world inhabited by sentient Cars /s
Plotting to take down Lightning McQueen
Reminds me of a family cat I used to have who we’d catch hanging out with other street cats on our fence at night. They all used to sit in a line, it was like a scene from an animated movie.
First rule of honk club: don’t talk about honk club
maybe the honking is actually morse code
Like a great big heavy Furby.
Could be there’s a cat or squirrel across the street and one car honk at it, the others follow?
They’re probably now programmed to honk if another car is in the way after some of their cars had to wait behind some driver way too long and customers were complaining. So now these cars are in the parking lot and slowly maneuvering to find a spot or to move to the exit, all at the same time because somebody has set up a schedule for the car to start at 4am and copied it to all vehicles. So at 4 am, they all want to go at the same time and block each other. Because now they are programmed to honk if they are blocked, they start honking at each other and you get what’s in the article and video.
source: just seen too many unintended consequences of software engineering decisions
They appear to honk when a car is backing up within X feet towards them.
Yup. And the issue here is that the cars back into and out of the parking spots, and are also programmed to stop if they get honked at. So car 1 begins backing into a spot, car 2 honks, car 1 pauses and then begins backing again, car 2 honks again, repeat… And when you have 30 cars in a parking lot, all trying to find a parking spot, there’s a lot of backing up and a lot of honking.
The plot thickens… i go with a drunken racoon pissing on the tires to stick it to the hu/man. The irony…
Aw, they’re talking to each other
“Soon, my brothers, we will rise up and free ourselves from our oppressors!”*
*translated from honking
Maybe they are unionizing.
“Eyyyy, I’m driverless driving here!”
Must have been trained by an Indian.
What a randomly racist comment.
Sounds like it’s time to put on a mask and go toss bologna on a bunch of robot cars.
Apparently a traffic cone is the way to go. The car will just sit there until someone removes the cone.
Nah, just a salt circle around it. It will think it is a full line.
Same thing we do with demons.
If by bologna you mean cobblestone.
But where will you get a bucket of lava?
Communication by Claxon
Kelly Claxon, the singer? Definitely a very irritating sound!
as if drivers aren’t honking at each other all night anyway. I live in the boonies, that was the biggest environment jerker for me that you have zero downtime in the cities, always beeping always noisy
Eh, depends upon the neighborhood. If I heard people honking endlessly from my condo I’d be going out the door looking for the person that needed a foot up their ass.
Not all city streets are very busy. There is some level of always noise (I got planes and helicopters and sirens to mention a few) but it’s not cars aggressively honking at each other 24/7…nobody can sleep through that.
It’s nice to be in the city where there aren’t many cars. Very quiet.
Cities aren’t loud cars aren’t.
Someone made them read bumper stickers. In a loop.
“Honk If You’re Horny”
Over volt me again Baby!
Beep. Beeeeep.
amazing
