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Self-driving Waymo cars keep SF residents awake all night by honking at each other
(arstechnica.com)
The Honking is upon us! Run for your lives!
this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2024
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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.
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The twilight barking, I still hear it sometimes round where I live.
It's going to replace all the barking du to all the dogs they run over.
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
It's nice to be in the city where there aren't many cars. Very quiet.
Cities aren't loud cars are.
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.
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