The future is coming to New York City, and it may sound like an incessantly beeping car horn.

Waymo, the driverless ride-share service that has experienced notorious viral mishaps — including waking up San Francisco residents when a parking lot full of the cars wouldn’t stop honking at each other — has launched a test run on the congested streets of Manhattan.

Anyone who has tried to drive cross-town on a weekday knows the unique challenges of our city: delivery bikes ignoring red lights and stop signs, bus lanes that limit where car passengers can be picked up, rim-cracking potholes, jaywalkers emboldened by now having the law on their side. (Cue Dustin Hoffman yelling, “I’m walkin’ here!”) 11

And then there are the human drivers.

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