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Social media users have been having a field day with Waymos autonomous vehicles, sharing videos that poke fun at the driverless cars getting stuck, acting unpredictably, or simply navigating the world a little too awkwardly. The latest wave of posts follows Waymos recent expansion into Austin, where users are already documenting bizarre and frustrating experiences with the service. TikTok user Becky Levin Navarro posted a video on April 20 claiming a Waymo car trapped her and her fellow passengers on the side of a highway after heading in the wrong direction. This is the most insane thing. Were in a Waymo, here, under Mopac, she said. It was going the wrong way, we called customer support, it stopped us right here and wouldnt let us out of the car. @beckypearlatx Zero stars for waymo. When we pulled up next to Deep Eddy Cabaret and the waymo didnt let us out and instead kept going the wrong direction towards downtown we said please let us out here it wouldnt let us out so it headed east, turned around back towards deep eddy cabaret and then STOPPED in a horrible spot to stop. We kept asking for it to move and customer service refused. #waymo #tiktok original sound – Becky Levin Navarro The video shows passengers speaking to customer support through the cars intercom. The agent explains the car can’t be moved manually, and asks for a physical address to relocate the vehicle. A Waymo spokesperson later responded: Waymo riders always have the ability to pause their ride and exit the vehicle when desired. Passengers can exit the vehicle by pulling the handle twiceonce to unlock and another to open the door. From being called drunk robots to causing traffic jams in the middle of the night, Waymo has become a regular subject of online trolling. Viral clips include Waymos honking at each other in the early morning hours, jamming up intersections, and getting stuck in drive-throughs. Some show police and parking enforcement stepping in to deal with wayward vehicles. @bluenote727 Waymo Self Driving Car Big Malfunction original sound – Blue Note A video from San Francisco shows a Waymo going the wrong way during a Warriors game as officials try to redirect it. Its not funny. This is a very serious matter, a police officer jokes to bystanders. The vehicle eventually backs up, awkwardly swerving to avoid a pickup truck. See, it worked!” the officer says with a shrug. “Still a little weird. I wouldnt have went that way, but . . . @travellingnepali When a Waymo driverless car goes the wrong way during a Warriors game in SF and the cops + parking enforcement have to teach it a lesson. Waymo: processing processing Finally it gets the memo and turns back! #Waymo #bayareacheck WaymorivingStruggles #SanFrancisco #WarriorsGame #driverlesscar #nepali original sound – Anil & Mansha Waymos fleet has more than tripled on California roads over the past year. A DMV report from April 11 cites 30 autonomous vehicle incidents in 2024. Still, Waymo reports 81% fewer injury-causing crashes and 64% fewer airbag deployments compared to human drivers in San Francisco and Phoenix. Despite its safety claims, the company remains a favorite online target. As Waymo expands into more citiesincluding a recent launch in Tokyothe internet doesnt seem ready to let the driverless cars off the hook.
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Fun fact: The saying work smarter, not harder is coming up on its 100th birthday. Coined in the 1930s by industrial engineer Allen Morgenstern, this simple, pithy directive is arguably more achievable today than ever before. Thanks to generative AI chatbots such as OpenAIs ChatGPT, Googles Gemini, and Anthropics Claude, its never been easier to quickly create text, images, code, and more. Here are few practical ways you can leverage them to power up your productivity. Create content If you spend any time crafting marketing copy, drafting emails, outlining blog posts, or even brainstorming ideas, generative AI tools can save you an incredible amount of time. Simply input a few keywords or a brief description, and watch as the AI generates initial drafts, outlines, or even complete pieces of content. Sample prompts: “Write a social media post announcing a new product feature for our accounting software. Keep it under 140 characters and include relevant hashtags.” “Generate three different subject lines for an email marketing campaign promoting our summer sale.” “Create an outline for a blog post titled ‘The Top 5 Benefits of Using AI for Project Management. Summarize information Drowning in readables? Generative AI can help you separate the wheat from the chaff far faster than even the speediest of human speed-readers. You can condense lengthy documents, emails, reports, and more into concise summaries, without spending hours reading. Sample prompts: “Summarize the key findings of this market research report into a few paragraphs.” “Extract the action items from this email thread.” “Synthesize the customer feedback from this collection of online reviews into an overview of common themes.” Generate ideas If youre not quite ready to trust generative AI to reliably create content or summarize information for you, rest assured that it can act as a powerful brainstorming partner. You can leverage AI to generate a wide range of concepts, muscle through writers block, or help you think of new ways to solve problems. Sample prompts: “Brainstorm 10 different marketing campaign ideas for a sustainable fashion brand targeting Gen Z.” “Generate five unique names for a new coffee shop with a focus on local beans.” “Come up with three different approaches to improve customer engagement on our website.”
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Social media is terrible for teens mental healthor is it? At the same time that rising rates of poor mental health among youth have been called a national crisis, and as parents and regulators call on social media companies to do more to keep young people safe online, a recent study by the Pew Research Center found that social mediawhile flawedcan sometimes be a positive influence on teenagers. In a survey of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17, 74% said social media makes them feel more connected to their friends, and 63% said online platforms give them a place to show off their creativity. Theres more good news: About half52%said social media makes them feel more accepted and supported through tough times. The bad news? That number is down from 67% in 2022. The survey found that parents, more than teens themselves, are likely to see social media as a threat to the mental health of teen users. Nearly half (44%) of parents blamed social media as the single greatest negative influence on teens mental health, followed by technology and bullying. Only 22% of teens agreed, citing a broader range of negative influences, including bullying and pressure to meet expectations. Everyone expects teens to have it all figured out by the time we get out of high school, one teenage girl said. Sometimes we dont know what we want to do. We are figuring life out too. Still, social media ranked as the most negative influence according to both teens and parents. The overuse of social media in our society seems to be the main cause of depression among those in my age group, a teenage boy said. People seem to let themselves be affected by the opinions of people they dont know, and it wreaks havoc upon peoples states of mind. Interestingly, teens seem more concerned about the effect of social media on their peers than on themselves. Roughly half (48%) said these sites have a mostly negative effect on teens their ageup from 32% in 2022while just 14% said they believe social media negatively affects them personally. At the same time, the number of teens who said they think social media has a positive effect on their peers dropped from 24% in 2022 to just 11% in the current survey. As a result, many teens are trying to cut back: 44% said they have reduced the time they spend on social media and smartphones. That means more than half are still scrolling.
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