Omg! I love this! And all the cars stuck behind the car in Midwestern Driver Mode could flip it off with their robotic Digital Gesture Of Disapproval Module.
I see your vision unfolding: a full motorcade of DGODMs gesturing in perfect synchronization while the Midwestern Driver Mode car waves them all ahead with quiet, infuriating graciousness. A traffic nightmare. A ballet. Possibly both.
A ballet or a traffic nightmare… for the latter, some of the fancier cars could have a “BBQ” feature, where a working grill and cooler will be available in the trunk, so as enraged drivers wait, everyone can at least get a burger and a couple beers. Er, sodas.
Finally, road rage solved—not with better infrastructure, but with brisket. The Department of Transportation's new slogan: "You're not stuck in traffic, you're hosting."
Oh honey, Madame has been saying this for YEARS, but apparently you have to have an agent and a platform and wear something other than a bathrobe while delivering lines from a drive-thru healing window to get taken seriously in this industry. Your support is noted, appreciated, and being celebrated with a box of wine as we speak. 🍷😂✨
Very good point. I was thinking if the taxi was polite among those Miami drivers, the ride would be exponentially more dangerous than if it adapted to conditions.
That sounds Waymo better than having to talk to a driver who wants to tell you their life story about having kids at the age of 18 and having to drive for a living.
I have taken hundreds of cabs in LA, NY, DC, and London, and have never encountered such drivers. I find that they generally are hard working people trying to make enough to care for their families, and they spend very little time trying to chat up their entitled customers.
I figured it was satire although it’s easy to use “it’s satire” when it’s pointed out that a comment is insulting to a specific, perhaps less fortunate, group of people.
If you're "concerned" about comments insulting a specific, less fortunate group of people, maybe be enraged about all the "people" being trampled in this glorious USA under trump and toadies. That's waymo props than criticizing the hungry poor yearning to breathe free, called virtue signaling.
Babs: Actually I’m much more than “enraged” about the way our government is trampling on people. I’m a Minnesotan after all. But I’m able to be concerned and even outraged by more than one situation at a time. Virtue signaling generally refers to people who express outrage and leave it at that rather than trying to do something about it. What is the term for folks who try to insult people with a label without having any idea what they have been doing, how they have been working within and without the political system to address important issues?
I had a very memorable conversation with an Uber driver who was from China. Noting that I was on my way to participate in a music event, he told me that, in China, music is considered to be medicine for the whole body and not just for the spirit. The characters for Music and Medicine are very similar.
I cut out and saved a New Yorker cartoon in which a woman is talking to her therapist and says "I am genuinely full of empathy and compassion until I see how other people drive." Makes me chuckle every time I see it.
If the fare is less than $30 each way, that's not enough to cover the cost of those 19,000 cameras and 4 million sensors and the AI computing power. Although it probably covers "Kevin" in India's wages for a month. The only way Waymo can work as a business model is if additional sensors are sucking up ever bit of data from your credit cards and your smartphone and your pacemaker while you sit in the back seat. Not that I'm paranoid about our good friends at Google being tempted to violate our personal privacy once in a while. On the other hand, it's not paranoia if everyone IS out to get you!
1) Like many others, I am sure, I still want to know if you survived the experience!
2) Where I live, in New Jersey, any functional Waymo would have to be equipped with a "F U, you #$@&#^!! a--hole, get the #*&$^&# out of my way!!" audio feature for highway trips. This would be played on a permanent loop as soon as the Waymo entered the left lane of the highway.
Will that include the machine swearing about the yuuuge potholes? Unless yinz (I’m in Pittsburgh) are used to it. I usually swear when I hit one of PA’s potholes.
For decades I have wanted one of those electric highway signs with the orange lettering on top of my car and a keyboard in my dashboard so that I could more effectively express to my fellow drivers just how much I appreciate them.
Dave, clearly you aren't a mother. Did no one ever tell you not to get into stranger's cars? Did you used to accept candy from strangers? Have you not watched Law and Order? This is an episode waiting to happen: nice man orders a Waymo and ends up in an apartment bathtub missing his kidney. Perhaps even WORSE! It could be an SVU EPISODE, if you know what I mean. At least when you drive yourself, you know what you're getting into - maniacal, idiotic drivers. With Waymo, well, the next ride you take might be .... your last ..... (Dun DUN!)
Well, those are some pleasant thoughts, Jen. Which means.... you fit right in on this Friday morning wackiness extravaganza, known as Dave's Comment Section! This summer someone should host the first annual Dave's Fan Club picnic and metal health evaluation party. I'll bring the NA beer.
And when Waymo branches out into more elaborate vehicles, they could do a whole spinoff series: "SUV SVU." Whole families and soccer teams gone missing!
Waving from Denver, Colorado that, as I understand, will be the first Waymo city that is subject to blizzards, ice storms, and below freezing temps for days at a time. My neighbors and I are not optimistic that "Kevin" knows how to differentiate between a road that is "wet" versus one covered with black ice, manage suddenly fishtailing on packed snow, or keep control while driving over a unplowed side street with deep ruts.
And, as I understand, there is no legal oversight, such as rules coming down from our city council governing accountability or mistakes. I guess someone in our government forgot.
We are very excited to be part of this Wild West experiment. (not)
Our city is notorious for having 100-year floods every 20-25 years or so, going back to the founding of the city in the mid-1800s. White folks who showed up at the time couldn't understand why local tribes had not set up permanent settlements at the confluence of Cherry Creek and the Platte River.
According to a friend who worked for our water agency for decades, friendly tribal leaders tried to explain. I guess they were not able to translate "10-foot surges with debris wiping out everything in their path" to the newcomers.
Just because we are in the middle of a drought right now does not mean that in a shift in the weather during our monsoon seasons we won't be hit by flooding this year.
I am usually dismayed and mystified by the velocity of change in the world, but last night I witnessed a girl with skunk-stripe hair and pierced gums win Olympic gold while skating to "MacArthur Park". Normalcy prevails!
This is exactly the future I was promised, except I assumed there would be more jetpacks and fewer dental accessories. I would like to note that ‘normal’ has always been a moving target, and it appears to be skating faster than ever.
My memory isn’t what it used to be, but I was thinking “Land of 1000 Dances” was the worst. Didn’t have time to look it up. Dave affirmed “MacArthur Park” was in fact #1 (above) after my initial comment. My question now is, where the hell IS MacArthur Park? And is there a trend of people leaving cakes there?
Right there with you, sir! Damn kids, get offa my lawn! Consarnit, kids today with their InstaChat and SnapGram and Tok-tik…
I sometimes think I’d like to equip my car with phasers, set on “disintegrate.” That way, I could rid the world of the offending drivers, while keeping the roads clear for traffic. OK, I’m mostly kidding. Sort of. Some people think I’m hostile, but the hell with them. 😳
Given the song choice, it is amazing that she won though. For those who recall, "MacArthur Park" was the grand prize winner in Dave's bad song survey. Then again, maybe they gave it to her for managing to make that song look good.
Just don’t get in one of the Tesla driverless taxis. Apparently they are 4 times as likely to crash as a human driver, and when they do you can’t open the doors while the battery pack ignites and barbecues you.
Speaking of Tesla…I saw a photo of one of those hideous angular Teslas that resemble tanks with the caption: Finally, a method of male birth control. I giggle just thinking about it.
I got into a debate about whether those actually are trucks. I think my friend who insists on referring to them as "failed geometry experiments " is more accurate.
My father liked to say that everyone agreed that he was the number one driver in Massachusetts. Everyone would raise a single digit whenever he passed them on the road.
Hmm, I think it was your dad a while ago who forced me onto the shoulder of the Mass Pike when he zoomed by. Yes, he is the Number One driver in Massachusetts -- tied for first with 4 million other maniacs!
Well, maybe not as he’s been gone for twenty-five years, but he was an early practitioner of the Boston style of driving having started at age fourteen in 1934.
Can’t remember exactly where, but I’ve seen two people, two different times, eating a bowl of cereal while driving. I hope that’s not a trend they’re trying to start.
I do remember this not in Miami because they didn’t have a gun in their other hand.
Close? Used to do evening class teaching in Bloomington IN, driving from Terre Haute IN on a mostly 2-lane ‘country’ road i.e. a little winding, and with people driving too fast. BUT after class I was HUNGRY. So, getting to Spencer IN, I would don a large towel and order a burrito supreme and then drive on into the night. Sometimes it was tricky but I am still alive; probably the closest to trying to eat a bowl of cereal while driving.
Come to think of it, I believe I saw this happening in Indianapolis. Perhaps this is an Indiana phenomenon? If pork tenderloin sandwiches were involved, I think we'd definitely be on to something.
Early in my relationship with my ex-wife, on the way home after a visit with parents, we stopped at a McDonald's for coffee to go. I was getting ready for my first sip when I remembered I hadn't yet buckled my seat belt, so I temporarily parked the coffee cup between my thighs and---
The scream (several sacred beings were invoked) greatly alarmed the children in the minibus next to us, which was from something like The Tiny Points of Light Academy. (Not its real name but you get the idea.)
It was one of my ex's favorite stories to relate in later years.
I love cereal (a meal in a bowl), but I never eat it and drive. I eat it and read quietly at home. Well, quietly except for the laughter when I’m reading this column and comments section!
What the world really needs is autonomous e-bikes so I can walk across the street in NYC without fear for my life. That's assuming they'd have pedestrian sensors, of course.
...also, autonomous roller skates and autonomous skateboards. Progress in those areas is impeded by the difficulty of including DGODM devices small enough to allow them to remain mobile.
I had a perfectly lovely interaction with Waymo customer service when the car thoughtfully dropped me off at a warehouse half a mile from my hotel so I could avoid any unnecessary convenience. They refunded my trip. But if I wanted the Waymo to take me to my ACTUAL hotel, I’d have to exit the vehicle - and call another Waymo. Kevin couldn’t re-route the car I was already buckled into.
I assume the next update will include a “Passive-Aggressive Midwestern Driver Mode” where the car lets everyone go first while quietly judging them.
Omg! I love this! And all the cars stuck behind the car in Midwestern Driver Mode could flip it off with their robotic Digital Gesture Of Disapproval Module.
I see your vision unfolding: a full motorcade of DGODMs gesturing in perfect synchronization while the Midwestern Driver Mode car waves them all ahead with quiet, infuriating graciousness. A traffic nightmare. A ballet. Possibly both.
A ballet or a traffic nightmare… for the latter, some of the fancier cars could have a “BBQ” feature, where a working grill and cooler will be available in the trunk, so as enraged drivers wait, everyone can at least get a burger and a couple beers. Er, sodas.
It’d be like a big tailgate party.
Finally, road rage solved—not with better infrastructure, but with brisket. The Department of Transportation's new slogan: "You're not stuck in traffic, you're hosting."
😂 Madame, you should be a comedy writer! You’re hilarious!
Oh honey, Madame has been saying this for YEARS, but apparently you have to have an agent and a platform and wear something other than a bathrobe while delivering lines from a drive-thru healing window to get taken seriously in this industry. Your support is noted, appreciated, and being celebrated with a box of wine as we speak. 🍷😂✨
Is it legal to consume adult beverages while riding in a Waymo? Just askin’
Asking for a friend who may or may not be Madame Bullwinkle.
I doubt it. It would be a great option for those drunk drivers on the go, though. They could self drive right to a drive through liquor store.
One should be able to legally drink in a Waymo- you’re not driving!
🤷♀️. It’s a good question - I don’t know. I just doubt it, is all. People would show up snockered to PTA meetings and grocery stores.
You say that like the grocery store and PTA aren’t already… advanced placement courses.
What about open container issues...?
They only go the speed limit. Does that count?
The Pittsburgh version has to include a “turn left against traffic on a green light even without a green arrow”.
This is not a traffic violation. It is a spiritual tradition. Kevin has been briefed.
I’m with Susie!
You slay me, Madame!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I aim to delight and mildly destabilize. It’s a public service, really. Glad it’s working. 😄
Oh, it’s working! Thanks!!! 🤣
I come from the land of "Minnesota Nice"!
In Chicago, that's called "driving".
I want to visit again, a lot of neat places and restaurants. But I won’t drive to Downtown. Train or bus.
Brilliant! And so on point!
Very good point. I was thinking if the taxi was polite among those Miami drivers, the ride would be exponentially more dangerous than if it adapted to conditions.
At some point, defensive driving becomes aggressive compliance with reality.
That sounds Waymo better than having to talk to a driver who wants to tell you their life story about having kids at the age of 18 and having to drive for a living.
I have taken hundreds of cabs in LA, NY, DC, and London, and have never encountered such drivers. I find that they generally are hard working people trying to make enough to care for their families, and they spend very little time trying to chat up their entitled customers.
Truth be told, neither have I. It was what they call satire.
I figured it was satire although it’s easy to use “it’s satire” when it’s pointed out that a comment is insulting to a specific, perhaps less fortunate, group of people.
Fair enough. Having kids at age 13 is not "less fortunate," but point taken.
Using sexually abused kids as satire might be seen as being a tad worse.
I never said they were abused. If you're making an Epsteinian reference, separate from this, then full on agree.
Net/net, I've learned my lesson about trying to make a "Waymo better" joke in a huff.
If you're "concerned" about comments insulting a specific, less fortunate group of people, maybe be enraged about all the "people" being trampled in this glorious USA under trump and toadies. That's waymo props than criticizing the hungry poor yearning to breathe free, called virtue signaling.
Babs: Actually I’m much more than “enraged” about the way our government is trampling on people. I’m a Minnesotan after all. But I’m able to be concerned and even outraged by more than one situation at a time. Virtue signaling generally refers to people who express outrage and leave it at that rather than trying to do something about it. What is the term for folks who try to insult people with a label without having any idea what they have been doing, how they have been working within and without the political system to address important issues?
They are not mutually exclusive, you know.
No one ever mentions Chicago when they mention New York and L.A. Chicago is the Fredo of America.
"Chicago is the Fredo of America": *excellent*!
"I'm your older brother, Los Angeles, and I was stepped over! I'm smart and I want respect!"
I had a very memorable conversation with an Uber driver who was from China. Noting that I was on my way to participate in a music event, he told me that, in China, music is considered to be medicine for the whole body and not just for the spirit. The characters for Music and Medicine are very similar.
I like that thought a lot. Unless, of course, we're talking about opera. No offense to opera fans, but I just can't get into it.
Me neither. Fortunately, there are a lot of other choices.
And wears after-shave that cripples my olfactory senses (and social life till I shower the miasma off) for about 4 days afterwards.
That’s why I do DoorDash.
I cut out and saved a New Yorker cartoon in which a woman is talking to her therapist and says "I am genuinely full of empathy and compassion until I see how other people drive." Makes me chuckle every time I see it.
I had hundreds of such cartoons framed on the walls of my private practice office. Clients loved them!
If the fare is less than $30 each way, that's not enough to cover the cost of those 19,000 cameras and 4 million sensors and the AI computing power. Although it probably covers "Kevin" in India's wages for a month. The only way Waymo can work as a business model is if additional sensors are sucking up ever bit of data from your credit cards and your smartphone and your pacemaker while you sit in the back seat. Not that I'm paranoid about our good friends at Google being tempted to violate our personal privacy once in a while. On the other hand, it's not paranoia if everyone IS out to get you!
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You can sing!!!! Wow:) Next time, will you please present us with your version of Bohemian Rhapsody, singing all 17.5 voices??
I suspect Waymo would eject me from the vehicle.
So the Waymo vehicle has the same features as James Bond's Aston Martin DB5?
That raises the question “Can you mutiny a Waymo?”
No, you're thinking of that movie "Waymo's World" with Mike Meyers.
Well done!
1) Like many others, I am sure, I still want to know if you survived the experience!
2) Where I live, in New Jersey, any functional Waymo would have to be equipped with a "F U, you #$@&#^!! a--hole, get the #*&$^&# out of my way!!" audio feature for highway trips. This would be played on a permanent loop as soon as the Waymo entered the left lane of the highway.
Will that include the machine swearing about the yuuuge potholes? Unless yinz (I’m in Pittsburgh) are used to it. I usually swear when I hit one of PA’s potholes.
For decades I have wanted one of those electric highway signs with the orange lettering on top of my car and a keyboard in my dashboard so that I could more effectively express to my fellow drivers just how much I appreciate them.
Dave, clearly you aren't a mother. Did no one ever tell you not to get into stranger's cars? Did you used to accept candy from strangers? Have you not watched Law and Order? This is an episode waiting to happen: nice man orders a Waymo and ends up in an apartment bathtub missing his kidney. Perhaps even WORSE! It could be an SVU EPISODE, if you know what I mean. At least when you drive yourself, you know what you're getting into - maniacal, idiotic drivers. With Waymo, well, the next ride you take might be .... your last ..... (Dun DUN!)
You have to admit it would make for an interesting obituary.
Bite your tongue. Google already killed him once.
Well, those are some pleasant thoughts, Jen. Which means.... you fit right in on this Friday morning wackiness extravaganza, known as Dave's Comment Section! This summer someone should host the first annual Dave's Fan Club picnic and metal health evaluation party. I'll bring the NA beer.
*Sob* I feel so seen, Bill.
Sorry. I didn't mean to peek.
Film at 11
And when Waymo branches out into more elaborate vehicles, they could do a whole spinoff series: "SUV SVU." Whole families and soccer teams gone missing!
Ahahhahahahahahaha!!!!
I'm sensing a budding TV writer!
Well, I do watch a lot of it. It must be just so easy. 😉
(laughing)
Waving from Denver, Colorado that, as I understand, will be the first Waymo city that is subject to blizzards, ice storms, and below freezing temps for days at a time. My neighbors and I are not optimistic that "Kevin" knows how to differentiate between a road that is "wet" versus one covered with black ice, manage suddenly fishtailing on packed snow, or keep control while driving over a unplowed side street with deep ruts.
And, as I understand, there is no legal oversight, such as rules coming down from our city council governing accountability or mistakes. I guess someone in our government forgot.
We are very excited to be part of this Wild West experiment. (not)
Meanwhile in the wild west, Waymos are driving into flooded roadways.
https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/waymo-autonomous-vehicles-back-on-the-road-after-many-became-stuck-in-arizona-floodwaters/75-271a5fac-596b-43c6-9473-0a6f7427a0a0
Floods? I forgot our floods. Thank you.
Our city is notorious for having 100-year floods every 20-25 years or so, going back to the founding of the city in the mid-1800s. White folks who showed up at the time couldn't understand why local tribes had not set up permanent settlements at the confluence of Cherry Creek and the Platte River.
According to a friend who worked for our water agency for decades, friendly tribal leaders tried to explain. I guess they were not able to translate "10-foot surges with debris wiping out everything in their path" to the newcomers.
Just because we are in the middle of a drought right now does not mean that in a shift in the weather during our monsoon seasons we won't be hit by flooding this year.
I am usually dismayed and mystified by the velocity of change in the world, but last night I witnessed a girl with skunk-stripe hair and pierced gums win Olympic gold while skating to "MacArthur Park". Normalcy prevails!
She could skate, though.
No argument on that.
It's a shame that she didn't finish with "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy".
This is exactly the future I was promised, except I assumed there would be more jetpacks and fewer dental accessories. I would like to note that ‘normal’ has always been a moving target, and it appears to be skating faster than ever.
Screw the jet packs! I want my Star Trek Transporter system. It’s got to be more pleasant than being in steerage on a plane.
Honestly, I’d risk reassembling a molecule or two out of place or arriving as my own evil twin if it meant never boarding Group 9 again.
Gawd, you’re funny!!! 🤣🤣🤣
I’ve always hated MacArthur Park. What the heck is the metaphor about the bloody cake supposed to mean?!?
I think that it is #2 on Dave's list of "Worst Songs Ever Written". I don't think that I can take it....
It actually won.
Is this like the 4th week in a row "MacArthur Park" has been mentioned in the comments?
I believe you are correct. Dave, can we get a ruling on this?
Are you asking Dave to rule on his own comment that MacArthur Park is number 1 on his worst list?!?
My memory isn’t what it used to be, but I was thinking “Land of 1000 Dances” was the worst. Didn’t have time to look it up. Dave affirmed “MacArthur Park” was in fact #1 (above) after my initial comment. My question now is, where the hell IS MacArthur Park? And is there a trend of people leaving cakes there?
MacArthur Park is in L.A.. Song written by Jimmie Webb, supposedly about a painful breakup with a girlfriend. Painful to my ears.
Is it #2? I could have sworn it was #1.
Yeah. That song is just weird. Probably why she chose it.
At least it wasn't the Richard Harris version.
Dante’s 7 levels of Hell comes to mind…
I've never heard the song, but bloody cake = hemorrhoids?
lol. Bloody is profanity in the UK. I was asking what an f-ing cake has to do with anything.
Great point. Change is inevitable. But the current "velocity" is nuts!
Holy crap! I sound like a geezer. Oh wait....
Right there with you, sir! Damn kids, get offa my lawn! Consarnit, kids today with their InstaChat and SnapGram and Tok-tik…
I sometimes think I’d like to equip my car with phasers, set on “disintegrate.” That way, I could rid the world of the offending drivers, while keeping the roads clear for traffic. OK, I’m mostly kidding. Sort of. Some people think I’m hostile, but the hell with them. 😳
Given the song choice, it is amazing that she won though. For those who recall, "MacArthur Park" was the grand prize winner in Dave's bad song survey. Then again, maybe they gave it to her for managing to make that song look good.
If Miami drivers are a 98.5, I assume the other 1.5 points are reserved for meteor strikes and the occasional shopping cart.
Just don’t get in one of the Tesla driverless taxis. Apparently they are 4 times as likely to crash as a human driver, and when they do you can’t open the doors while the battery pack ignites and barbecues you.
Speaking of Tesla…I saw a photo of one of those hideous angular Teslas that resemble tanks with the caption: Finally, a method of male birth control. I giggle just thinking about it.
Love your comment!
Ah, yes, the Fugly Cybertruck. The vehicle that looks like it was designed by a 12-year-old on Ketamine. Wait, maybe it was…🤔
If only Elon would ride in his own invention…
He does. There is video of him getting into one of his trucks.
Unfortunately, there's probably also a video of him getting out.
...in one piece.
But did he RIDE in it?
He was getting in it while someone was asking him a question. His body language indicated he was going somewhere.
The owner of the Segway company, Jimi Heselden, died in 2010 after riding one of his segways off a cliff into a river. Just sayin . . .
So glad to see your avatar! Always enjoy your wit.
Thanks!!
I got into a debate about whether those actually are trucks. I think my friend who insists on referring to them as "failed geometry experiments " is more accurate.
“If it seems stupid but it works, then it’s not stupid”
That is the issue. Do they function as advertised?
Sounds like they need an ejection seat option. Didn’t James Bond’s vehicles have them all the way back in the 60’s?
I have got to get me one of those DGODM "We're No. 1" arms for my car! I can't seem to find it on Amazon...
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Amazon probably files it under ‘Conflict Resolution Devices’— or ‘Essential Miami Driving Equipment. Try that.
Strangely satisfying if the porch pirates steal that Amazon shipment!
You got the hardest laugh out of me today. Considering my decades long adoration of Dave, that's really hard for someone else to do.
My father liked to say that everyone agreed that he was the number one driver in Massachusetts. Everyone would raise a single digit whenever he passed them on the road.
Hmm, I think it was your dad a while ago who forced me onto the shoulder of the Mass Pike when he zoomed by. Yes, he is the Number One driver in Massachusetts -- tied for first with 4 million other maniacs!
Well, maybe not as he’s been gone for twenty-five years, but he was an early practitioner of the Boston style of driving having started at age fourteen in 1934.
Ya never know. I've been getting terrified by drivers on the Mass Pike since the mid-70s. Your dad could've been one of them. Must be the last name.
Ditto. Maybe we can save on a bulk order!
Pffft. Some Enchanted Evening. That’s not a test of the microphones or the effects of singing on the car. Copacabana. That’s a test.
That would be crossing a line.
A host of us have been reading you for a very long time, sir.
Can’t remember exactly where, but I’ve seen two people, two different times, eating a bowl of cereal while driving. I hope that’s not a trend they’re trying to start.
I do remember this not in Miami because they didn’t have a gun in their other hand.
Close? Used to do evening class teaching in Bloomington IN, driving from Terre Haute IN on a mostly 2-lane ‘country’ road i.e. a little winding, and with people driving too fast. BUT after class I was HUNGRY. So, getting to Spencer IN, I would don a large towel and order a burrito supreme and then drive on into the night. Sometimes it was tricky but I am still alive; probably the closest to trying to eat a bowl of cereal while driving.
Come to think of it, I believe I saw this happening in Indianapolis. Perhaps this is an Indiana phenomenon? If pork tenderloin sandwiches were involved, I think we'd definitely be on to something.
As you hopefully know, Indiana BREADED tenderloin sandwiches are HUGE.
Early in my relationship with my ex-wife, on the way home after a visit with parents, we stopped at a McDonald's for coffee to go. I was getting ready for my first sip when I remembered I hadn't yet buckled my seat belt, so I temporarily parked the coffee cup between my thighs and---
The scream (several sacred beings were invoked) greatly alarmed the children in the minibus next to us, which was from something like The Tiny Points of Light Academy. (Not its real name but you get the idea.)
It was one of my ex's favorite stories to relate in later years.
By “they” do you mean the cereal eating and driving community?
Yes, the Culinary Motoring Community.
I love cereal (a meal in a bowl), but I never eat it and drive. I eat it and read quietly at home. Well, quietly except for the laughter when I’m reading this column and comments section!
Would you rather see people eating breakfast burritos? Just wondering.
What the world really needs is autonomous e-bikes so I can walk across the street in NYC without fear for my life. That's assuming they'd have pedestrian sensors, of course.
...also, autonomous roller skates and autonomous skateboards. Progress in those areas is impeded by the difficulty of including DGODM devices small enough to allow them to remain mobile.
I had a perfectly lovely interaction with Waymo customer service when the car thoughtfully dropped me off at a warehouse half a mile from my hotel so I could avoid any unnecessary convenience. They refunded my trip. But if I wanted the Waymo to take me to my ACTUAL hotel, I’d have to exit the vehicle - and call another Waymo. Kevin couldn’t re-route the car I was already buckled into.
Unnecessary conveniences are the WORST.