Ah, I guess not. It's a self-driving Rolls Royce with no steering wheel and only one bench seat. You just tell the car where you want to go and it takes you there in your ivory tower cocoon.

The joke is that self-driving cars haven't worked out they way the promised, illustrated by the collection of videos of Waymo cars getting trapped by stupid problems. I imagined this $50 million dollar car trapped in a flood, or just as likely running over a child.

https://youtu.be/rGqUnIaNUjE?t=75

They're still promising it, but it jumped from $20 million to $50 million.

Meanwhile in the real world:

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[โ€“] 33 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I don't remember it. What is it?

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    [โ€“] [S] 10 points 4 days ago

    If you're wondering why the price more than doubled, you don't need to look any farther than this:

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 days ago

    Confirmed, image search finds it's a Rolls-Royce 103EX concept car from 2016.

    But I would have guessed it was generated today.

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