There you have it! At 4 a.m. in San Francisco, a Waymo robotaxi pulled itself over, called the po…
September 13, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 comments
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There you have it! At 4 a.m. in San Francisco, a Waymo robotaxi pulled itself over, called the police, and turned in its own passengers.
Inside: two minors, a loaded AR-style ghost gun, marijuana, and mace.
The car's cameras and remote monitors caught a weapon its riders weren't supposed to have. The tech worked exactly as designed.
So let me split this into the two questions everyone's arguing about — because they are NOT the same question.
Question one: the gun.
This is not a legal-carry story. Let me be clear, because the comments will try to make it one.
A lawful gun owner carrying a serialized, registered firearm is a right. I'll defend that all day.
This was a homemade, UNSERIALIZED, untraceable rifle — a ghost gun — loaded, in the hands of two juveniles who by law can't buy or carry it, in a car they weren't old enough to ride alone.
That's not the Second Amendment. That's a felony wearing a checkbox.
California has the strictest gun laws in the country. Ghost gun recoveries went from 11 in 2014 to over 10,000 a year. They passed a whole law in 2022 to stop it. Four years later a teenager is loading one into the back of a self-driving taxi.
The laws on paper are not reaching the supply on the street.
Question two: the car was watching.
Here's the part that should make everyone — armed or not — sit up.
A private company recorded the inside of a vehicle you paid to ride in, decided on its own that something was wrong, and called the cops. No warrant. No officer. An algorithm and a remote human deciding when you become a police matter.
In this case? Good outcome. Two kids and a loaded rifle off the street at 4 a.m. Nobody's crying about that.
But strip the outcome away and look at the machine.
That same interior monitoring rides with every passenger, every trip, every conversation. It doesn't only turn on for ghost guns. It's always on.
And this is the second time in two months Waymo flagged teenagers to police — last time it was kids with water beads, and the company reportedly told them the car "had issues" instead of telling them police were already coming.
Read that again. The car lied to buy time.
The right answer isn't "rip the cameras out." It's the question nobody at Waymo is answering: who watches the watcher, what's the retention policy, and where's the warrant.
Catching a loaded ghost gun is the easy case. The hard cases are the ones where the outcome isn't clean and the recording still exists.
Source:
https://lnkd.in/enPM99Hj
I'm walking through exactly how that stack works — 20+ gates, editor removed from the loop — live on September 22, 1:30 PM ET. Come see it live here.
Would you get in a car that's allowed to decide, on its own, when you become a police report?
Inside: two minors, a loaded AR-style ghost gun, marijuana, and mace.
The car's cameras and remote monitors caught a weapon its riders weren't supposed to have. The tech worked exactly as designed.
So let me split this into the two questions everyone's arguing about — because they are NOT the same question.
Question one: the gun.
This is not a legal-carry story. Let me be clear, because the comments will try to make it one.
A lawful gun owner carrying a serialized, registered firearm is a right. I'll defend that all day.
This was a homemade, UNSERIALIZED, untraceable rifle — a ghost gun — loaded, in the hands of two juveniles who by law can't buy or carry it, in a car they weren't old enough to ride alone.
That's not the Second Amendment. That's a felony wearing a checkbox.
California has the strictest gun laws in the country. Ghost gun recoveries went from 11 in 2014 to over 10,000 a year. They passed a whole law in 2022 to stop it. Four years later a teenager is loading one into the back of a self-driving taxi.
The laws on paper are not reaching the supply on the street.
Question two: the car was watching.
Here's the part that should make everyone — armed or not — sit up.
A private company recorded the inside of a vehicle you paid to ride in, decided on its own that something was wrong, and called the cops. No warrant. No officer. An algorithm and a remote human deciding when you become a police matter.
In this case? Good outcome. Two kids and a loaded rifle off the street at 4 a.m. Nobody's crying about that.
But strip the outcome away and look at the machine.
That same interior monitoring rides with every passenger, every trip, every conversation. It doesn't only turn on for ghost guns. It's always on.
And this is the second time in two months Waymo flagged teenagers to police — last time it was kids with water beads, and the company reportedly told them the car "had issues" instead of telling them police were already coming.
Read that again. The car lied to buy time.
The right answer isn't "rip the cameras out." It's the question nobody at Waymo is answering: who watches the watcher, what's the retention policy, and where's the warrant.
Catching a loaded ghost gun is the easy case. The hard cases are the ones where the outcome isn't clean and the recording still exists.
Source:
https://lnkd.in/enPM99Hj
I'm walking through exactly how that stack works — 20+ gates, editor removed from the loop — live on September 22, 1:30 PM ET. Come see it live here.
Would you get in a car that's allowed to decide, on its own, when you become a police report?