January 7, 2025 • 5 mins
Self-Driving Car Fail | Gen Z & Alpha Have a Phone Talking Phobia
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You bully it, you bow it, you blew it. Have
you ever done something really stupid?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Me neither, but these people did, and that means it's
time for you to get an f y. All right,
four forty nine, let's do this, Matt Case, What do
you got for me today? I got something pretty funny
that I just found. This is from a guy who
posted online on social media. He was using one of
(00:31):
those I'm not familiar with these. I'm just learning about these.
It's a company called way Mo, and they offer humanless cars,
autonomous vehicles that you can use that will pick you
up and take you to a place, basically like an
uber without a driver. All right, So this guy, his
name's Mike. He hails a driverless car, an autonomous vehicle
(00:54):
to take him to the airport to get to a
flight that he needs to make for his job. And
I'm guessing these like it's an app that you probably
just summon the car via app and it sends the
car to your plate and it and it sends a
car that could drive itself to your place to pick
you up in Turkey? Where is this? Can? I ask?
Is it in a specific country? I'm gonna be honest,
I just found this on social media. I need to
(01:15):
do more digging on that because I did just find it.
But he's okay. So that's in the United States, I
tell you this much. I have some audio. Let's just
listen to what happens to him. He's talking to Waimo's
customer service right now in this piece of audio. I'm
just gonna go ahead.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
And play it.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Either.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Mike is a scabout calling from waimas support. I'm just
calling because I receive a notification at your car might
be experiencing some routing issue. Please share with me while
I am here.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yeah, I got a flight to catch. Why is this
thing going in a circle? I'm getting dizzy?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Understand. I'm really really sorry, Mike. We're currently working with
the situation of the vehicle.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
So the ATA he's starting in a circle. Yeah, it
picked him up. He got in the car and then
instead of driving to where he needed to go, and
just started driving in a circle over and over and over,
and he started getting dizzier and dizzier. So he called
customer support, and then his social media post he lamented
that customer support was completely unhelpful. Oh boy, And so
now on he's just gonna keep it old fashioned. How
(02:09):
does see? Okay? So apparently they are in just a
few places, okay, and they've been around for a little bit.
But this is like the Google self driving car project,
and they're in Phoenix, San Francisco, and Steel, Arizona is
where this was so Phoenix, yeah, the Phoenix area, San Francisco,
Los Angeles. And then they are private testing in Miami
(02:30):
and Austin is in a waitlist mode, and they're private
testing in Tokyo. So they're in the process of growing.
But they're owned by the Google people. Alphabet Wow, So yeah,
how do you how do you get out of that?
Like do you just take over the car? Do you
like get in the driver's sea while it's moving and
just like hit the brake and just like try to
correct it? Right? How does that work? I have to
assume they were able to stop the car somehow, or
(02:52):
maybe he was able to reach over and stop the car,
you know. I mean, I just think it's hilarious imagining
you're trying to get to the airport and this car
picks you up and they just starts driving in a
circle over and over that. Yeah, that messed me up. Okay,
so I'm guessing way Mo's getting the F here, so right,
I mean way Mo or maybe you know me. I
mean just the direction of our technology right now, as
(03:13):
we take humans out of the human experience of what
it is to be a human on this earth. So
you know what humanity for dehumanifying humanity? We all get
an F today. What is wrong with you? That's right
of us? Did not deserve that, well, but you gave
it to us anyway, right? You know it was your
selective You're too decisive. You're so indecisive. You can't even
(03:36):
give one person in the now. You have to make
everybody feel like garden can't that got mad that you
didn't get a Valentine from the girl that you liked
in third grade, So nobody gets any Valentines anymore because
you complain to the teacher. That's you. That's you. You
know what. That is such a personal example. I wonder
if it was true in your own life. Memories are
no because my elementary school required that you have to
give Valentine's to everyone, So there you go. I remember
(03:59):
getting plenty of Valentine's in fourth grade. I'll have you know. Well,
this is another thing. That's going in the same direction
you talked about. There is a school in the in
England called Nottingham College and they are trying to help
people in gen Z and eventually jen A that suffer
(04:22):
from telephono phobia. Is that telephonophobia? Jen A is that
Forrest Gump's girlfriend. No, that's gin Alpha that I'm calling
gin A my bad dummy. And essentially, telephonophobia is the
fear of talking on the telephone, which is really like
grasping more and more young people who just don't want
(04:44):
to talk to people on the phone. Now, I think
that was kind of starting with our generation, like we
don't need to talk on the phone anymore. We could text,
we can you know, instant message, like we can Facebook message,
we can do all sorts of stuff. And guess what,
now the generation below us is having such hard times.
Nottingham College is now offering coaching sessions on phone confidence
and etiquette to support gen Zers in overcoming telephonophobia. So
(05:10):
this is what I have to say for people who
are suffering from telephoneophobia, get a grip. Get a grip. Man.
If you can't talk on the phone for whatever reason,
because you're afraid of an awkward conversation. You need real help.
So good on Naudium College for trying to address this,
But boo on you to the people who can't bring
(05:30):
themselves to speak with somebody on the telephone. Yesh, to
any gen Z or any one of any age, honestly
that is afraid of the telephone call, you get an
a foo and that does not count. Not at wanting
to answer spam calls, to feel free not to answer
spam calls, but still being afraid of a telephone call.
Come on, man, what are we doing here?
You bully it, you bow it, you blew it. Have
you ever done something really stupid?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Me neither, but these people did, and that means it's
time for you to get an f y. All right,
four forty nine, let's do this, Matt Case, What do
you got for me today? I got something pretty funny
that I just found. This is from a guy who
posted online on social media. He was using one of
(00:31):
those I'm not familiar with these. I'm just learning about these.
It's a company called way Mo, and they offer humanless cars,
autonomous vehicles that you can use that will pick you
up and take you to a place, basically like an
uber without a driver. All right, So this guy, his
name's Mike. He hails a driverless car, an autonomous vehicle
(00:54):
to take him to the airport to get to a
flight that he needs to make for his job. And
I'm guessing these like it's an app that you probably
just summon the car via app and it sends the
car to your plate and it and it sends a
car that could drive itself to your place to pick
you up in Turkey? Where is this? Can? I ask?
Is it in a specific country? I'm gonna be honest,
I just found this on social media. I need to
(01:15):
do more digging on that because I did just find it.
But he's okay. So that's in the United States, I
tell you this much. I have some audio. Let's just
listen to what happens to him. He's talking to Waimo's
customer service right now in this piece of audio. I'm
just gonna go ahead.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
And play it.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Either.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Mike is a scabout calling from waimas support. I'm just
calling because I receive a notification at your car might
be experiencing some routing issue. Please share with me while
I am here.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yeah, I got a flight to catch. Why is this
thing going in a circle? I'm getting dizzy?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Understand. I'm really really sorry, Mike. We're currently working with
the situation of the vehicle.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
So the ATA he's starting in a circle. Yeah, it
picked him up. He got in the car and then
instead of driving to where he needed to go, and
just started driving in a circle over and over and over,
and he started getting dizzier and dizzier. So he called
customer support, and then his social media post he lamented
that customer support was completely unhelpful. Oh boy, And so
now on he's just gonna keep it old fashioned. How
(02:09):
does see? Okay? So apparently they are in just a
few places, okay, and they've been around for a little bit.
But this is like the Google self driving car project,
and they're in Phoenix, San Francisco, and Steel, Arizona is
where this was so Phoenix, yeah, the Phoenix area, San Francisco,
Los Angeles. And then they are private testing in Miami
(02:30):
and Austin is in a waitlist mode, and they're private
testing in Tokyo. So they're in the process of growing.
But they're owned by the Google people. Alphabet Wow, So yeah,
how do you how do you get out of that?
Like do you just take over the car? Do you
like get in the driver's sea while it's moving and
just like hit the brake and just like try to
correct it? Right? How does that work? I have to
assume they were able to stop the car somehow, or
(02:52):
maybe he was able to reach over and stop the car,
you know. I mean, I just think it's hilarious imagining
you're trying to get to the airport and this car
picks you up and they just starts driving in a
circle over and over that. Yeah, that messed me up. Okay,
so I'm guessing way Mo's getting the F here, so right,
I mean way Mo or maybe you know me. I
mean just the direction of our technology right now, as
(03:13):
we take humans out of the human experience of what
it is to be a human on this earth. So
you know what humanity for dehumanifying humanity? We all get
an F today. What is wrong with you? That's right
of us? Did not deserve that, well, but you gave
it to us anyway, right? You know it was your
selective You're too decisive. You're so indecisive. You can't even
(03:36):
give one person in the now. You have to make
everybody feel like garden can't that got mad that you
didn't get a Valentine from the girl that you liked
in third grade, So nobody gets any Valentines anymore because
you complain to the teacher. That's you. That's you. You
know what. That is such a personal example. I wonder
if it was true in your own life. Memories are
no because my elementary school required that you have to
give Valentine's to everyone, So there you go. I remember
(03:59):
getting plenty of Valentine's in fourth grade. I'll have you know. Well,
this is another thing. That's going in the same direction
you talked about. There is a school in the in
England called Nottingham College and they are trying to help
people in gen Z and eventually jen A that suffer
(04:22):
from telephono phobia. Is that telephonophobia? Jen A is that
Forrest Gump's girlfriend. No, that's gin Alpha that I'm calling
gin A my bad dummy. And essentially, telephonophobia is the
fear of talking on the telephone, which is really like
grasping more and more young people who just don't want
(04:44):
to talk to people on the phone. Now, I think
that was kind of starting with our generation, like we
don't need to talk on the phone anymore. We could text,
we can you know, instant message, like we can Facebook message,
we can do all sorts of stuff. And guess what,
now the generation below us is having such hard times.
Nottingham College is now offering coaching sessions on phone confidence
and etiquette to support gen Zers in overcoming telephonophobia. So
(05:10):
this is what I have to say for people who
are suffering from telephoneophobia, get a grip. Get a grip. Man.
If you can't talk on the phone for whatever reason,
because you're afraid of an awkward conversation. You need real help.
So good on Naudium College for trying to address this,
But boo on you to the people who can't bring
(05:30):
themselves to speak with somebody on the telephone. Yesh, to
any gen Z or any one of any age, honestly
that is afraid of the telephone call, you get an
a foo and that does not count. Not at wanting
to answer spam calls, to feel free not to answer
spam calls, but still being afraid of a telephone call.
Come on, man, what are we doing here?
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