The Week contest: Waymo woes

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Residents of an Atlanta neighborhood have been besieged by dozens of empty, self-driving Waymo cars that drive aimlessly around cul-de-sacs on dead-end streets, especially early in the morning. In seven or fewer words, come up with a subject line for an email from an irate resident to the company complaining about this robotic traffic.

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THE WINNER: This is redundant, but get lost!

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Lenn Robbins, New York City

 

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You stop, or we call Robo-cop!

Carol J. Giesey, Hanover, Pa.

 

Tired of getting the runaround.

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Waymo cars: infinitely loopy

Bill Levine, Belmont, Mass.

 

I'm walkin' here! Anyone drivin' there?

Barry Cutler, Palm Desert, Calif.

 

We need way less Waymo!

Rick Torrence, The Village, Okla.

 

Dawn of the dead end

Erica Avery, Greenfield, Mass.

 

My Roomba is smarter than that!

Kenneth Burgan, Grass Valley, Calif.

 

Your Waymo is laymo!

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