Lemon-scented handwipes, IIRC. Also Marvin spent ~millions of years in the car park for the Restaurant at the End of the Universe: ""The first ten-million years were the worst. And the second ten-million - they were the worst too… The third ten-million, I didn’t enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.
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Re:Waymo doubles service area in Phoenix Metro
by jamiek88 on Friday May 05, 2023 @05:51PM
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I deleted the Marvin bit as I was worried I was rambling! And yes it was the wipes, thanks for the correction!
It's funny because for some reason they definitely do feel adorable and polite. I know we shouldn't actively anthropomorphize them, but it's just the feeling you get when you see them go about their polite little way, adorably plotting our downfall.
Their first cars were even more anthropomorphic: https://blog.waymo.com/2019/08/from-post-it-note-to-prototyp...
There's something adorable and HHGTG about that whole thing! Reminds me of the robotic Star Liner that refused to take off because of the peanuts hadn't been delivered thus its checklist was incomplete. It had waited eons as its passengers withered to corpses securely locked into the cabin only stating that it was 'statistically likely a new civilisation with peanut packages will arise on this planet'.