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In San Francisco, a self-driving Waymo vehicle crashed with a bus just as a group of CEOs were leaving a party, prompting them to help the stuck artificial intelligence car move—a moment that was captured on camera and went viral quickly.
Freddy Vega, a Brazilian CEO, wrote on X, “A Waymo car driven by AI crashed with a Muni bus driven by a human in San Francisco. Right in front of YC’s founder after-party.”
In the video, a bunch of people can be seen shoving the automobile in an effort to move it aside. “This is what the industry calls ‘founder mode’,” Vega quipped in the clip.
Vega went on to explain that the crash occurred right outside the retreat of the founders of Y Combinator, a startup accelerator and venture capital firm. As the CEOs struggled to help the Waymo vehicle, Vega noted, “The irony is that we were all coming from an AI conference about the future of automation. And here’s this AI completely stuck and blocking traffic.”
The car’s battery eventually ran out despite their best attempts, so the bus had to find a way past it and carry on. A fellow entrepreneur responded to Vega’s question on the experience by joking that while it was difficult at first, going into “founder mode” eventually helped.
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The video, which has got more than 4,53,000 views, has been inundated with remarks that criticise and mock AI technology. One X user wrote, “No investors were harmed during this intervention.” Another user said, “What a surreal moment! AI meets human error in the most ironic way, with CEOs stepping in to assist a confused robot. The future really is here, complete with its own set of unpredictable challenges!”
“This proves two things: The “dystopic” future that people were fearing is pretty boring. Now we know how many software engineers we need to move an AI self-driven car,” read a comment from a third user.
