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> Waymo saved my life in LA. When I visited LA, I rode in a Waymo going the speed limit in the right lane on a very busy street. The Waymo approached an interse
by zx8080 7mo ago
> Waymo saved my life in LA.
When I visited LA, I rode in a Waymo going the speed limit in the right lane on a very busy street. The Waymo approached an intersection where it had the right of way, when suddenly a car ignored its stop sign and drove into the road.
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> Unfortunately, the Waymo only supported Spotify and did not work with my YouTube Music subscription, so I was listening to an advertisement at the time of my near-death experience. 4.5 stars overall.
What?! Is this a generated comment?
- andrewflnr 7mo agoI believe it is, in fact, humor.
- jjmarr 7mo agoHere is a photo I took inside of the Waymo outside of an Erewhon. Going to Erewhon and experiencing the $20 Hailey Bieber smoothie was on my brother's bucket list and riding in a Waymo was on mine. https://files.catbox.moe/jdjwy5.jpg https://files.catbox.moe/jdjwy5.jpg https://files.catbox.moe/mh4ivw.jpg https://files.catbox.moe/mh4ivw.jpg I have included EXIF data in an attempt to prove this really happened and I'm not an AI commenting bot.
- kcrwfrd_ 7mo agoWhat was the verdict on the smoothie?
- jjmarr 7mo agoHe said it was overpriced but bought it again from a different Erewhon so I assumed he liked it (Canadian understatement). There's apparently a quality gap between locations. The pre-Waymo one was from Erewhon Grove and was freshly blended. Erewhon Beverly Hills on Rodeo Drive premade a bunch of them and left them lying around for a while before selling. My brother's theory is that Erewhon Grove customers are people who legitimately wanted a smoothie and Erewhon Beverly Hills customers just want photos with the smoothie since it was very popular on Instagram at the time. Most surprising fact was despite being a licensed product, it was better than the best non-licensed smoothie (coconut cloud). Licensing deals should make the product worse because the royalties cut into the product margin. The company cuts costs or doesn't take creative risks as a result. But somehow Erewhon resisted these pressures when designing the Hailey Bieber smoothie. We had a discussion about why that was the case but couldn't come up with an answer.
- kcrwfrd_ 7mo agoI think they have rotating specials. These are pre-made, cheaper, and smaller. When you have a membership this is the one you get for free (once a month). They used to have a “Dr. Paul's Raw Animal-Based Smoothie” that I looooved, but unfortunately they stopped making it. Still sad about that one :(
- saalweachter 7mo agoPffft, like a bot couldn't fake metadata.
- Dylan16807 7mo agoDo you not like people being funny, or is there something else you're reacting so strongly to?
- zx8080 7mo agoMixing saving one's life with rating for a drink in the same comment makes feel very weird. Not funny, TBH, but actually it reads like a millions of generated bad review comments on amazon, expedia etc.
- Dylan16807 7mo agoIt's his own life, he can be silly about it. Also the life saving isn't that literal, it avoided a crash. When I see generated reviews they're boring, they don't have unexpected mood shifts that still fit the topic.
- jjmarr 7mo ago4.5 stars was for the ride. I didn't taste the Erewhon smoothie and can't rate it.