When Paul came out of the restaurant, Trudy and I got up from the bench where we had been sitting in the sun. We all started to walk across the parking lot.<\/p>\n
I had been watching a man with a bag getting into a car with no driver. There was a large spinning device on top of the vehicle, and odd protrusions sticking out from the two front corners. It drove off after the man got in, but I knew the street to be a cul-de-sac and that it would return.<\/p>\n
“You just missed it,” I said to Paul. “There was a guy who just got a bunch of togo food and jumped into a Waymo. They’ll be coming back around any moment.” And sure enough, just then the future-car came around the corner with no one at the wheel and a man sitting in the back seat. <\/p>\n
“Oh wow,” Paul said.<\/p>\n
He was genuinely excited.<\/p>\n
On the way home, as we cruised southbound in the right lane, a Cybertruck drove quickly by, passing us and the traffic in the other lanes, as Cybertrucks are want to do. It was flat-black with no markings. If the navigation radar had been turned on, it would have registered nothing in that lane with that stealthy truck, but as it was, I had no navigation radar to turn on in the first place.<\/p>\n
“Oh wow,” Paul said. “My first Cybertruck!”<\/p>\n
He was genuinely excited.<\/p>\n
“First a Waymo. Now a Cybertruck. What a trip!!”<\/p>\n
…<\/p>\n
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