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Kea Wilson @keawilson.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I'm sorry but this whole thing makes me feel insane. Let's just be real: we stole basic independence from generations of kids and teenagers by intentionally making our cities deadly + impossible to travel outside a car, and now corporations are selling a worse version of it back to them at a price.

wired.com

The Teens Are Taking Waymos Now

Alphabet’s self-driving car company launches what it hopes will be lucrative individual teen accounts—and maybe a whole lot of social change in the process.

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Noe @hilo1.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

still cheaper for most teens than owning a car.

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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

What if we understood that *we* did not do this? That a tiny slice of people whose entire business model was "lol what planet what society where's my $$" did this? That they did this to us, against our interests and against our will? How would that change how we talked about this?

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Expedition Works @expeditionworks.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Science confirms this! jwp.news/the-city-is-...

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The city is for children to use

Are cities failing our kids? Listen to experts discuss how urban design impacts children's mobility and what makes a neighborhood truly child-friendly.

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Mind Frighten 🎃 @porgus.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Being a kid is cool because now they're charging you micro transactions to go down the street.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I agree with you in general, but Waymo doesn't operate in car centric suburbs yet, it's mostly in transit-friendly urban centers. The specific culprit here is insane safety culture that doesn't allow children, and increasingly teens, outside anywhere in their own.

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anime.robin0 @animerobin0.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

cars have been around longer than the concept of "teenager" has

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Andrew Saffrey @mapsman.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I agree except the deliberate part… people aren’t that clever! It was just brainless planning rather than a sinister ploy

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TeddyZed @silverzed.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Capitalism is going to look so bad in hindsight.

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Ken McLeod @kenmcld.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshitt... Proposed solutions: End-to-end principle, which for transportation would mean the network reliably and safely allows travels by all users Right of exit, which for transportation would mean people can choose to not use a car or truck

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Enshittification - Wikipedia

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Mario Super Bros @msbit.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I am raising 3 kids in SF, my oldest is 8 and entering third grade. I love Waymo, but sometime over the next year we are going to have him walking and taking transit by himself. There has and will be lots of training about watching out for cars, especially at tricky intersections in our neighborhood

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Pppatticake @pppatticake.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

It’s horrifying

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David Bickford @exit2lef.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

If used for all trips, we might see adverse consequences, but that's unlikely given Waymo's fares, which are generally higher than Uber and Lyft. A more likely and less catastrophic scenario is occasional use in situations when walking, bicycling, transit, and rides from parents are not an option.

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Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Wow. I had a deep discomfort when my friend suggested I get my kid the Teen Uber app. Aside from my concerns about putting my kid into the hands of unregulated drivers and no consequences for bad behavior: THIS

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Kea Wilson @keawilson.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

You can't bump into your friends on the way home from school from the back of a Waymo. You can't discover a creek or a park or a shop or whatever other neighborhood landmark that will become a core memory. "Unwinding" in the back of a self-driving pod is a terrible replacement for a real childhood.

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B’rel @brelknight.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I thought they meant stealing them… shame

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nickforbrains 🏳️‍🌈 @nickforbrains.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I grew up in the city in the 90s and had so much freedom. My children can’t imagine that. It makes parenting harder too.

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