No Mo' Waymo? Are the Robots Abandoning L.A.?

White flight among the automatons?

An unsourced video shows a convoy of five white Waymo Jaguar robot taxis on a freeway (presumably with Google employees in the driver’s seats — Waymo is only authorized at present for driverless trips on Los Angeles’ surface streets, but Google’s Waymo subsidiary has been sending robot taxis onto the freeway for training, with stand-by human drivers).

As a symbol of my dedication to my rapidly increasing number of Substack subscribers, I actually left my closet tonight and drove around to report on rumors of cybernetic white flight from Los Angeles. I drove a few miles up and down broad Venice Boulevard near the 10-405 freeway interchange on the Westside. I’d normally see 10 or 15 robot cars in that timespan (I think they drive up and down Venice Blvd. all night for training and/or advertising because it’s wide and calm).

But none were out tonight.

This is ten to twelve miles west of downtown Los Angeles where several Waymos were burned by rioters. Trump said in reference, “This is why we can’t have nice things.”

So, have they all fled for parts unknown?

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