Now I am depressed

Awww I want one

It's good to start my weekend early with laughter.

This plan was so bad, a global pandemic emerged solely to prevent any successful Titanic voyage.

Poor dear! That really is an awesome mother.

I see what you did there

ayyy yoo

And sometimes I have to wonder if it's been hacked

yay turtles edit: that’s a lot of upvotes! thanks

True story. When my grandpa was a teenager, he worked for a traveling fair. His boss was a total ass and frequently demanded my grandpa work extra hours without paying him. On the last day, my grandpa cleaned everything he was supposed to and helped break down and pack the equipment for moving. The boss was still a jerk. He threw my grandpa the keys to his truck and told him to do some more work, then park the boss's truck in the garage while boss and crew went to the bar. My grandpa did all the work himself. Pissed that the adults never returned, he took the truck to the slightly oversized garage. He parked it. Then, little by little, he worked on parallel parking it. He swears it took him nearly an hour, but he got the truck in the garage entirely horizontally. He never saw that boss again but says he would've paid good money to see his reaction the next morning.

That's cute and also a little terrifying, it really does just like a fuzzy black hole with eyes

When I was in high school my chemistry teacher's license plate was "hiho ag"

"Hey kids, look! Grandma's in the driveway!"

When infrastructure is developed enough for self-driving cars to be the norm, I'm sure it'll also have developed enough to have some sort of advanced health alert for passengers who become nonresponsive.

Came for the posts. Stayed for the comments

There's a short story similar to this, Road Stop by David Mason - about an automated car that just keeps going with the passengers inside long passed on. It's on Project Gutenberg if anyone wants to read it.

It's Weekend at Bernie's all over again.

I don't understand why self driving cars have to look like cars, can't they look like something cool??

😂😂😂😂😂

I laughed at this way harder than I should have! After all, it could be me!!

It could be a thing... if cremation or burial isn't your thing, just program Endless Road Trip...

They are ALREADY terrifying: Once on my morning commute in the HOV lane that normally travels at 75MPH plus (barring jams and collisions), I came up behind a lone Tesla going about 60 MPH and immediately became concerned when I saw that the driver wasn't even acknowledging the many vehicles being forced to go around him. But I didn't know what to do about it. The window tinting and speed prevented me from seeing the older gentleman's face clearly and/or his hands. So I kept on driving to work while watching others in my rear view mirror passing the Tesla as I had until it was out of sight. Finally arriving at work, thoughts that the gentleman driver might be asleep or worse, dead at the wheel stayed anxiously with me all day. I kept checking the news and -- thankfully -- never saw any incidents attributed to this car/driver. Seeing just how that kind of thing can really happen and knowing that the problem and chance of occurring is multiplying is frightening.

Ahhhhhhhgggggh. Never thought of that. Thanks. The visuals are now running around in my head.

Ok now I gotta remember every zombie movies that have a scene with corpses sitting in cars.

I would hope it would change destinations at that point to the hospital

If, and its a big if, self driving cars arrive, im getting a self driving rv and live in it.

Soon, there will be songs about a heartbroken trucker because his truck left him.

I can't wait until I no longer have to hide the bodies after I'm done.

Highway to hell

We already have the technology to monitor people and self-driving cars could be programmed to divert to a hospital if this ever happened.

Thanks for the laugh!

It would probably realize she was in trouble based on pupil movement and pulse and take her directly to the hospital rather than sitting in a driveway with a dead body

Hopefully there will be a medical button, either in the car or on the person that they can press. Or maybe sensors you attach that will go off. I'd much rather this, than a regular accident. In the early 90s, my Dad had a fishing buddy. The buddy's older brother graduated from medical school. My Dad's buddy was driving a van back home and in it, were his brothers wife, her sister, and their 3 children. The buddy fell asleep at the wheel on the highway, drove up on the sloped end of a guard rail doing 80 mph, sailed 70 feet into the air, coasted 150 feet, and finally crash landed on the passenger side in a gully/ravine. Buddy's right elbow and leg were shattered. The sister died on impact, so did his 1 niece and his brothers wife. They needed the "jaws" to cut them out and the inside of the van was TOTALLY coated in blood. It was a nightmare. I'm all for safety, and I hope one day, self driving cars will be it.

You mean, it just changes from self driving car to automated corpse delivery system. It's just that efficient!

Oh my God that's horrific. Take note self driving car designers.... attach little blood pressure, pulse and O2 detectors to drivers so you know they're alive. Ok thanks

I'd assume the car notices, reroutes to the hospital and ambulances are rarely needed anymore.