Katie Bindley

I was lucky enough to have Waymos training kind of all around my apartment for a while.

And there were a lot of nights when, yeah, I would be driving home or heading somewhere and it would just be me and like four Waymos out on the road.

Well, I mean, it was really entertaining.

Like I remember one night I was driving home and it was like this extremely foggy, you know, kind of moody night.

And I pulled up at a stoplight next to a Waymo.

There were no passengers in it.

And all the windows were down and they were blaring the song Creep.

Do you guys remember that song?

Like, so I creep, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, having like a chill ride through the neighborhood.

No, I do feel lucky because I think it's been fascinating to observe them, to observe how humans feel about them, how we interact with them.

And I would say, like, it was probably a tie.

And typically, in those types of circumstances, if it's a tie, the Waymo would be very deferential and would let you go.

Or it would wait to see if you were going to go.

And in this case...

You know, we both pull up and the Waymo was just like, my turn, I'm going.

And all of us kind of gasped at the same time.

We're like, wow, that was like kind of an, that was kind of like an aggressive Waymo.

And we started talking about how we'd all observed the Waymos, you know, being more assertive and more, you know, every man for himself, I guess.