When A Driverless Car Breaks The Rules

“If a driverless car breaks the law… who gets the ticket?”That’s the question that launches this hilariously unhinged episode of The Ben and Skin Show, where Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray dive into the bizarre world of autonomous vehicles, internet rabbit holes, and the strange things people do when no one’s watching—except maybe AI.The crew reacts to a jaw-dropping story out of Atlanta, where a Waymo driverless car illegally passed a stopped school bus, sparking a heated (and hilarious) debate about the future of self-driving tech. Krystina floats a conspiracy theory that Elon Musk might be sabotaging competitors, while Skin wonders if we’re all just beta testers in a glitchy simulation.Krystina, the only one brave enough to have actually ridden in a Waymo, defends the tech—until the conversation takes a sharp left turn into people allegedly getting frisky in autonomous vehicles. (“It’s all on camera… but it’s AI watching!”) From there, it’s a full-speed descent into absurdity, including:

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Give me that news quickie.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's go to Atlanta Way. Moo is
the driverless car that Christina's road in that yeah right
now in San Francisco multiple times. We have a few
here in DFW. Now they're all over Austin. I went
to Austin about a month ago and I was like, whoa,
they're everywhere. So just like an uber, but it's driverless.

(00:23):
Waimo driverless car caught illegally passing a school bus.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Oha.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Okay, so that's a very nuanced thing. Like when I
see school buses and they stop and kids are getting
off and they are getting out of the bus or whatever,
and they put up a stop sign on the it
kind of unfolds from the side of the bus.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
I don't know what the rules are.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
I don't know if that's a stop sign, like you
go up to stop and then you can keep going,
or if everybody just needs to stop and just chill
for a second till these kids get where they're going.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
I don't know what the rule is.

Speaker 4 (00:51):
The idea I think is that everyone's supposed to just
stay put wherever you are. Yes, and we have a
bus stop across from our house, so if I'm leaving
when I see that, I punched the accelerator to get
out real fast in front of it before I get
caught when everyone's just got freeze because you know the
cars get on the highway.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yeah, oh my god, dude.

Speaker 5 (01:14):
This is shocking to me because when we rode in it,
it would do like high tech maneuvers, you know, like
it would stop when someone was trying to get out
of a parking lot or if someone was walking. So
I have a theory on this because this isn't Elon Musk's.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Thing, this is someone else's right.

Speaker 5 (01:30):
This is a competitor. I think he's hacking it and
he's trying to make them screw up on purpose so
he can get leverage.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Dude. Any Way, moo failure is good news for Tesla's
self driving program for sure.

Speaker 5 (01:43):
I'm telling you, I was so impressed when we rode
in Weimo and I was like, this is amazing, this
is great.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
I feel like Christina spent a lot of time in
four chan. Never been Okay, we should go sometime to
four chan. We should just check it out.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
You can just log off.

Speaker 5 (02:00):
You have to tape her somewhere.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Why are you trying to corner her and use the
Internet with her. See her. Just be in there. Hey, Christina,
get in the star croom. I want to show you
four chun.

Speaker 5 (02:11):
I'm good.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Reminds me of the time you were asking about her jeans.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
I was asking about fashion, though more than her her
fashion in general.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
No, the fashion, the trendy topics of today. And then
you told skin to bend over and pick some up.
You were complimenting his. That was personal. I didn't like
the touch.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
The Senator Rick Williams up there and Georgia says driverless
cars should be stopped until it can be figured out.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
We should not have this on the road.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
It's too dangerous for our children.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
He's never heard the term beta.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Well or. He sponsored a lawn twenty twenty four named
after an eight year old who is hit Christine.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Look, I buy a car. An eight year old was
hit by a driverless car.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
No by a car, drove, I stopped bus.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
So he signed a bill against people getting hit by cars.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
I don't understand. Look, I'm with him in that. I
don't trust this. Like if I'm going, if I'm going
on a short distance and I'm not on a busy
street or a fast you know, big high speed limit.
Maybe I'd try it, but I just don't trust it.
I don't how could this. I don't think we're there yet.
I'd have to do gummies first.

Speaker 5 (03:25):
You guys haven't ridden in one yet? No, okay, because
I mean, I agree, it's hard to trust it. But
once you're in there, you're like, man, this is way
better than a human driver.

Speaker 4 (03:33):
No, no, no, I don't trust driverless cars. I trust strangers.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Why is it better than a driver? Why is it
you said it's better?

Speaker 5 (03:41):
Yes, there's no small talk. A human drives off emotion,
you know, and they can get distracted by little things.
They're on their phone all the time. This car is
not distracted by anything, right.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
Go ahead, Well you're right about that. Like I can't
tell you just driving down the highway. If you look
the people around you, everyone's on their phone or they're
putting on makeup. Like I so often get behind somebody,
I'm like, what, this is the weirdest thing ever. And
you get up next to them and it's a woman
putting on makeup while doing sixty miles an hour on
the tollway.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Is what is happening?

Speaker 4 (04:15):
So I want you to think about this the next
time you sit in the backseat of a waimo. There
is a lot of people out there that are getting
in way moos and having sex.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
No, yes, because what's the difference, just because there's not
a guy there watching, but it's on camera, so they
what the thrill of having sex in the car in
a car while it's moving, but they don't have to
deal with a guy in the front seat watching and
fishing it out. But whoever's watching the feed, there's no

(04:45):
there's cameras there. No, it's it's AI watching the feed
being filmed.

Speaker 4 (04:50):
Yeah, but no one knows like the AI would have
to discover the sex and tell other AI to go
tell humans.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
You see what I'm saying. Didn't you say you.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Parked under the hole tag camera one time? Yes, just
to take at that thrill of someone watching. Yes, he
stayed right there in the lane. Yeah, his cars were
honking right there at the airport.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (05:16):
Then one of my least favorite things is when I'm
in those lines leaving the airport and some idiot got
in the lane without the toll tag and they have
to go to the front, and then everyone starts putting
it reverse and driving against the traffic. There's one dumb ass.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
What does that giant t say? Do I go in
this light? Oh no, I'm the one person without a
toll tag. All right, there you have it. There's the
news quickie