AI-animated satire from DOOOD What The?!. Reacts to a real news story; see transcript below.
Dooood! What the? Okay, check this out. Okay, so a guy on Sunset Boulevard saw a self driving Waymo, a car with nobody inside it, and decided that this one specific car was his personal enemy. He took his shirt off, screamed at it, and then climbed on top of the hood to fight it. The car, of course, did nothing. Because it is a car. You think you can just drive, with no driver? Not on my boulevard. I do not care if you have forty little cameras. Look me in the eyes, robot. I climbed on the hood so we could settle this like men. And it said, in a calm little voice, please do not sit on the vehicle. Please? I will sit wherever I want. I threw everything I had at that car. My fists, my energy, my shirt. And it just pulled over and turned on its little hazard lights. That is not a fight. That is disrespect. The Waymo filed a report, drove itself home, and charged overnight. The man is still on Sunset Boulevard, waiting for a rematch. Duuude... What the. (sigh)
The Waymo self-driving car was attacked by a man who climbed onto its hood and threw objects at it, but the vehicle remained passive and eventually pulled over safely.
The transcript suggests that the man saw the empty self-driving car as his personal enemy and decided to confront it physically because he felt disrespected by its presence on the road.
Yes, according to the episode, the self-driving car filed a report after the attack and then drove itself home safely.
The transcript indicates that the man remained on Sunset Boulevard, seemingly waiting for another opportunity to confront the Waymo vehicle again.
DOOOD used satire and humor to highlight the absurdity of a human attacking an autonomous vehicle, emphasizing the exaggerated reaction compared to the car's passive behavior.
DOOOD, What The?! is a faceless AI-animated daily news-comedy cartoon. The host, The Reactor, reacts in disbelief to one real news story per episode, with whip-pan cutaways to animated characters. New episodes post daily.