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Dozens of empty Waymos invade neighborhood in Atlanta leaving neighbors baffled
(www.the-independent.com)
this post was submitted on 17 May 2026
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This is actually completely natural migration behaviour. Waymos migrate south for the winter to warmer climates, which are less taxing on their batteries. As the weather begins to warm again, they travel north to return home and find a mate
Only the "find a mate" bit shows that you're making a joke.
"Completely natural migration behavior?"
"Waymos migrate south for the winter to warmer climates?"
Those are more tongue in cheek than straight up jokes. There's an actual explanation in there: Cold stresses the battery, so the self driving car moves somewhere warmer. This is the humorously framed as if it were talking about an animal, rather than a machine.
Someday, we will have automated robots with this sort of self management - and an AI will be explaining how we emulate nature to optimize the behavior of robots.
Electronic moose stand atop hills, so that the radios in their antlers can reach the space eagles in orbit, who observe the earth from on high...
Something like that.