I thought they did have a stop button. I recall a video James May made of a Waymo that had one. I could be wrong. But, the article doesn’t say anything about whether one was present and if the occupants tried it.

Edit: I just got home and rewatched the video. No, there’s no emergency stop button. There is a “pull over” button on the passenger touchscreen console and the app, but that’s about it. A bit concerning!

Public institutions would be better using something like Mastodon for announcements. They’d have the option to retain full control over their instance and citizens wouldn’t need an account to access it.

True. And, frustratingly, it’s a 20 year digital archive that’s in the care of a single for-profit corporation. At least if it was a federated platform the archive would be spread about without a single entity having full control.

Hopefully when the alternatives start gaining traction then things worth sharing will start turning up there. The irony isn’t lost on me, though. In this case I found the channel through YT and thought it worth sharing. It’s also ironic that the YT algorithm suggested it to me 😄