Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video]

Very neat. I recently went to the Waymo depot in Bayshore (Toland St) and snapped a couple of pictures of the new Zeekrs for Wikipedia.

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Waymo_Zeekr_Vehicle_...

[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Waymo_Zeekr_Vehicle_...

That art fixture's placement at the Mission Waymo Depot is kinda cool. It's evocative of a future in which humanity lives a life of indolence propped up by automation.

Makes me think of Miniatur Wunderland's "self-charging" system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC8aOLWR134

It's the world most complex model railway with cars (not just trains) that go around in predetermined routes, and also go to the charging station when their battery is low. And I guess Waymos are a version of that but with human-scale! (Oh they still need humans to plug the charging cables into them).

I wonder if they park themselves or if the maintenance people park them...

Also, the footage feels like Satellite Reign https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFZVXG0g40Q (or the original game, Syndicate Wars)

If anybody is wondering, the music in this video appears to be "Alonia" by Valante. Very soothing.

Very interesting to see the workers in yellow presumably cleaning and manually plugging in the cars to charge.

This is actually rather beautiful to look at, covering a full day/night cycle. Well done.

Gave me a new appreciation for the scale of the investment /bet that is being made on transportation of the future.

Great clips and editing. New perspective on the scale of self driving cars deployed currently.

This is cool and soothing. Merry xmas

Getting Bladerunner vibes from several things but mostly that giant translucent synthwave Marco Cochrane statue.

There are also neighborhood self-help groups who try to "stack" the Waymos into alleys so that they can sleep:

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/25/us/santa-monica-waymo-bat...

Watch the Zoox test vehicles please. They do absolutely terrifying things, _in every encounter_.

Seeing all these Waymos together like this... is depressing. You get a sense of the scale at which machines are replacing humans. This could be a scary movie made in 1970s about the robotic future... and that future has now arrived. What will the world look like 10, 20 years from now? What would a scary movie made today contain?

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