Texas Longhorns Star Quarterback Arch Manning promotes an unmanned Uber car with his father and grandfather.
The 19-year-old appeared in an ad entitled “Who's Manning The Car,” with his family sitting behind a Google-powered Waymo car with no drivers.
Uber announced on “Good Morning America” schedule With Phoenix along with Google's second Waymo operation to provide self-driving cars in Austin, Texas.
“Arch, are you going to do classes? I realized you've got a lot of parking tickets. You have to be driving somewhere,” asks Arch's father, Cooper Manning.
“Tickets are cruel around campus, so I think Uber is the way to go,” replies Arch.
Arch is the nephew of Super Bowl winners Payton and Eli Manning, and the grandson of NFL legend Archie Manning, who appears in the ads as cartoon relief and plays a confused old man who is supposed to be at a disadvantage with technology.
“I was just a few blocks, but it's way better than the arch that came from the airport last night. That was the worst,” Archie says with a chuckle at his grandson.
In typical Manning fashion, there are three We're kidding at each other's expenseasked Cooper Manning if his father had a computer and how old he was when he first got his phone. Cooper presses his son into a big hug and kiss, hoping he will be embarrassed when he lowers him.
“Many make mistakes too.”
The playful place adds humor to the apparent bliss of unmanned taxis, but the reality of self-driving cars is less rosy. A serious problem has arisen from the California program, causing traffic jams and accidents.
In August 2023, 10 unmanned vehicles caused traffic jams in San Francisco one day after signing approval to expand the use of the vehicle after losing a traffic light in San Francisco.
That November, General Motors recalled an entire fleet of 950 self-driving cruise taxis from California's streets. Autonomous vehicles were trying to pull pedestrians and inadvertently dragging them. The California Department of Motor Vehicles has announced an immediate suspension of company testing permits.
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi told ABC News that “humans make mistakes too,” but passengers “can “be at ease” that Waymo Cars is “the safest ride available today.”
The CEO also claimed that the vehicle is a driver “more safer than a human.”
The vehicle starts with a button pressed from a passenger on the screen. This was advertised as a futuristic experience.
However, Uber users will be given the opportunity to opt out of unmanned vehicles.
Waymo expands beyond its current two-city approach, naming Atlanta as its next destination.
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