WHAT COULD GO WRONG? San Francisco Approves Driverless Cabs!

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Toot-toot, bitches! San Francisco, which is currently giving us New-York-City-hellscape-circa-1975, is about to get a whole lot hellscappier. And this time it's not Streisand's fault! 

Some company called Waymo (which sounds like a 'mo who's gettin' way more than me) got approval to let loose with a bunch of driverless cabs in San Francisco. Which begs the ubiquitous question: What could go wrong? 

But, hey, we all need to chill the fuque out, right? It's only a pilot program. In fact, a cheerful Waymo executive burped up this delightful bon mot to the Washington Post: "We don't expect it to be perfect. (We) have a vision of safer roads." That's corporate speak for, "If we mow down gammy, don't sue, 'cause we're the future and it's funzi." Besides, they're required to inform the State about all "collision events." So we good, right? 

Given how notoriously hilly San Francisco is, I, for one, can't wait for a driverless cab to come bombing down Bradford Street - which is thrillingly, almost absurdly, steep (when I last drove down it, I squealed like Kanye getting finger-banged). But really, it's San Francisco, ya'll. Which means when a driverless cab pulls up, a hot piece like this will be waiting in the backseat. So we good right?

(Photo Credits: Warner Bros./Getty)

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