San Francisco!

by chris cunningham

Here we are back in San Francisco! It’s good to be back I haven’t been here in like 15 years or so, and uh yeah it’s amazing! I love this city, but um I don’t know things have changed a bit, things have changed quite a bit you know so when you’re just chilling out a driverless car! It’s all good look at that we’re stopping for a bus, Move away bus! Oh a yellow light is it going to figure out what to do? Yes we’re safe, thank you Johnny Cab!

All right here we go! Hello hello. Check that out. Where’s he going? He’s going without me. Okay that’s what we do. Okay I’ve got to shut it off.

…finally relax and thank you for riding with us.” Alright ain’t nobody driving this car. Right. So weird. Okay off we go. Arrival in 33 minutes okay it’s about a dollar a minute.

Okay well it let that, uh, ambulance go by. Pulled over and everything. It’s pretty trippy. It recognized, um, this feels like a rather normal experience, have to say. Doesn’t feel odd at all and it’s it’s overly cautious. So that’s good but I don’t feel like it’s a jerky ride like tapping the brakes.

Watch the wheel. Look, oh, it’s waiting for cars to go by so that we have room. Oh, I think we’re in the wrong oh no quick quick right yeah good. And now I should be turning left? You’re not going to get me copper! You can’t ticket me for speeding!

Oh there’s another one! I see you! I see you! Look at that they’re all over the place! It’s pretty cool! All right let’s go! Oh acceleration! Alright, one right in front of us! Do electric, uh, do driverless cars wave at each other? I don’t know and where do they go when they need to recharge? What do you do driverless cars?

Going through a nice area now. Oh here we go. Alright are you going to figure out we’re at a stop sign. It read that another stop sign. Where’s this car going? Maybe the same place. Oh yeah look Presidio. Oh yeah. Beautiful. All right curvy roads. Watch out cyclist there’s no one driving this car! Oh yeah. Ooh it noticed the speed bump, no way! Look down there there it’s the Palace of Fine Arts. Ah okay here comes the speed bump, is it going to do it? Look at that slows down, speed bump, nice. Look at that we’re following one. Speed bump. It’s rough that. Okay no car crash no car crash.

Okay here we go, let’s see. “Almost there get your phone keys or bag.” Right, see how it gets us parked. Got to roll up the window. “For your safety the doors will remain locked when we arrive. pull the handle twice to exit the first pole unlocks the second opens the door.” All right, okay. There we go, got the cyclists looking at us…. and where is the mystery destination? Where is it? Where is it going to drop me off? Okay here we go. Okay, it says we’re going to stop up here very quickly. What’s it going to do? Finding a spot to pull over. Guess this is it. It’s, you’re good. He’s worried about it… Okay. “You’re here, please make sure it’s clear before exiting.” Okay, pull the handle once, oh it did, okay bye Johnny Cab! Thank You!

Bye! Huh.