My dog crashed the self-driving vehicle
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Hey guys, it's Molly here again for another video
and it's time for another story
starring
this guy
You
Starring you
Yeah! he could care less honestly, so
Yes, I somehow managed to crash self-driving vehicle.
I don't have a treat for you. He thinks I have a treat
No treats, I bribed him with a treat to get up.
This story took place a couple of years ago
in the middle of a frosty, frosty winter day in Toronto
I guess technically not in Toronto. That's a lie
Everybody from Toronto we're all just like  "oh it's Toronto"
But really it's like the outskirts of Toronto
it took place in Waterloo. It was the university-
was it University of Waterloo or Laurier University?
They're both in Waterloo. It gets confusing.
It was one of those universities it was there
I think it was Laurier.   Regardless most of you
watching this aren't from there and will have no idea
what words I'm spewing out of my mouth right now
So it really has no relevance.
So I was contacted because a television station
Wanted to do a piece
blind person behind the wheel of a self-driving vehicle
They want to get like the reaction all this stuff
And of course when they call me up and are like "Hey...
we're looking for a blind person to test out a self-driving vehicle"
Do you want to do it?" I was like heck yes, absolutely.!
Now unfortunately, it wasn't a car very sad.
It was a self-driving golf cart. Woooo
It's like the like cool thing when you're 80,
at retirement-home to have a self-driving golf cart
I was gonna test drive the self-driving golf cart
that these three guys in university
had come up with for a school project
And the school project went so well
and it was so successful that they had actually
dropped out of university and the day after filming
were going to be flying to Silicon Valley
to pitch investors and this golf cart
was going to be put into
retirement communities into, resort communities
as the vehicle to get residents or guests from point A to B
So it's really cool
these like young guys are really successful
super like nerdy geeky guys,
they where really sweet. We show up
It's freezing cold, freezing.
I'm in like literally a snowman hat and a big jacket
all cosied up
Aw he try'na snuggle
So I of course have my guide dog Gallop there with me.
My mom drove us
We all meet in this parking lot
because they set up the track because basically the way
this self-driving vehicle works is
the guys programmed in their system a route for
the car to take me on, or for the golf cart to take me on
and then the golf cart takes me on that route
and the golf cart was taking me on a figure-eight
through this parking lot
So there was a couple obstacles that it would go around
AKA cars, but other than that it was like an empty parking lot
So we go to this parking lot. We get out. Get all mic'd up
Meet the camera crew, meet the guys, get in the golf cart
And it's a pretty standard golf cart.
There's the front seat and like one back row
So obviously the shot they want is me like
sitting in the driver's seat.
With my hands not on the wheel
as a blind person being guided around in this golf cart
So they made is do this
Like go around in this figure eight
so many times cuz like "We want a shot from this angle
We want a shot from that angle.
Now we want a shot where the guys who designed it are sitting in the backseat
Now we want a shot where it's just you
Now we want a shot where one of them is in the front seat with you
like they just wanted every shot imaginable of this
figure-eight loop. And it was so cold that I was like
Dear. God. Help me. And it's not like that exciting.
Like yes, it's cool the first figure-eight maybe the second
figure-eight is cool that I'm in a vehicle driving itself
But by like the tenth time when it's freezing cold,
it's getting less cool.
Not physically, it's getting actually more cool.
They want shots with Gallop, my guide dog
Now my guide dog is 90 pounds.
He's a very large half black lab half bernese mountain dog
There's a lot of dog to this dog and getting him into this small golf cart
is not an easy feat
and they want him to be sitting in the front seat with me
So we got him to do it a couple of times, but he was very uneasy about it
Every time the golf cart would stop at the end.
He would like jump out like he didn't want to do this
They said to me "We want one more shot."
which is the famous line in show business
This was probably the fifth time they said "One more time"
and they said we really want Gallop, and I said honestly,
he's not gonna do it again
He's done it a couple of times. He's been really uncomfortable
Can we just do it with me?
And they said "No, we really want Gallop" and I said,
I just don't feel like it's a good idea, I don't want to force
my dog to do something he's uncomfortable with.
And they said could you please just try to get your dog on one more time?
Like then I promise you we're gonna be finished.
Like let's just cox him on. I'm sure he'll do it he did great the other times.
And I was like here's what I'll do
I'll ask him to get on, if he doesn't get on. That's it
Or if he gets on and jumps off the other side,
which is something he kept doing.
He would like get on the one side and then get right off
from the other side, cuz obviously golf carts are like open or either side
So I said if he gets off he gets off
like I'm not gonna force my dog on
I ask him to get on on
being the beautifully well-behaved dog he is
he gets on and he sits
but I could tell he wasn't like- he was grumpy about it
You know, like he was probably-
I couldn't see the face, but I'm sure he with making a face about it
But he's being polite and he's sitting there
and I was like, okay, let's give it one more go
We're going around the loop first loop. We're golden.
We're heading into the second loop. We've gone around an obstacle
And I'm supposed to be like heading back now
and all of a sudden- and I've done this route
Like so many times that I know how it's meant to feel
I'm like and we've gone around this loop and like I can I'm ready
I feel like we've gone around the second- this obstacle
and all of a sudden
We kept going straight and I was like, oh god
This does not feel right and I immediately like turned back
where everybody else was. I hear them all being like
"Oh my god" like everybody starts running
after the vehicle. And I am-
It's going faster this thing is picking up speed here
I know this is not a good situation
Everybody is like running after me like "stop stop" and I'm like
It self-driving. Like nobody ever told me it would-
nobody taught me safety precautions for this thing
We're just rolling on through and *smack*
hard landing into a car
We crash and stop into a car
one of the crew members cars and
they pull the vehicle back and what was so funny
is as I'm going off course
A police car comes and starts following me
So this police car is like tailing me
and these guys with their controllers are trying to stop it
But it's like it's not working
Like they're supposed to be able to control it from their system
and they cannot it is- this is just fully veering off course
It is gone rogue.
And so the police car is chasing me. I'm just like
Can't see where I'm going or what I'm doing and
So this crash landing. It was a shock to me.
They get me out. They get Gallop out. He jumps out like
*hums*
Like all like happy to begin now
they pull this back there is damage to the front like wheel
I don't know anything about cars, wheel-wheel the-
wheel hub? The thing around the wheel!
Was damaged, there was like dents and scratches
Police officer comes he's like checking in on me.
He just like happened to be there
It was the most bizarre thing
Officer is now questioning me. He's taking statements
He is acting like this is like a typical traffic accident
and is like "Do you have insurance?"
I'm like I don't even have a license!
What is happening, the guys, the three guys
who have invented this thing, are freaking out
They're all yelling at each other. They're trying to figure out whats wrong
they had previously told me
This is one of the like audio clips. They got for the show
when when they were in the cart with me
I was like supposed to be kind of interviewing them about it
And one of my questions is "Has it ever crashed?"
Like have you ever had a accident and they said
we are so proud to say we have had 100% success.
Not one accident
the day before they go to Silicon Valley to pitch investors.
I ruined their 100% success streak.
I was like, oh my god. What did I do?
This just shows- You get a blind person behind a vehicle
it;s never gonna be good like
I was like, I don't know what happened
So then they come over and they're looking at Gallop and I
They put us back and look at how we where sitting
And they look at the golf cart and they realize
that my dog was so unhappy
to be put back in that golf cart and he took his little paw
and he pushed the button on the floorboard that
deactivated self-driving. Which is why even on their end,
they could not stop me once it started to veer off course
Because it was now back into manual driving mode
It had to be act- like it had to be
driven, stopped, everything done by the person in the vehicle
Which was me or a dog? Essentially, I did not crash.
the self-driving vehicle. My dog
crashed the self-driving vehicle.
and this is my friends while you never force a guide dog
to do something he doesn't want to do.
When people are like "how do you know if a dog really wants to work"
because if they don't wanna work, they'll let you know
I promise you that if they don't wanna work-
I remember my guide dog gypsy.
If she didn't want to go to school with me. She just wouldn't get out of bed
She was like a little like a little kid throwing a tantrum
she's like "no, I'm not leaving bad today."
I don't wanna work. I'm tired.
I want the day off. I'm calling in sick
They will let you know if they don't wanna work
and he let us know that he was not happy to be
put back in that self driving vehicle.
Gallop: I am so over this. I am done.
I aint putting up with this no more. Deactivate.
Police officer like takes down all the information
Because obviously like this guy's car was now damaged
so he was gonna have to go through his insurance company
So they're trying to figure out all the legalities of like
who was gonna pay the insurance all of this stuff
Who was that fault the accident
So they put down the dog
And so we're on the way home in the car from this shoot
and we're just dying laughing at this whole situation
That there was a police officer- like it was so ridiculous,
and he calls me I pick up the phone, he's like:
I'm just back at the police station with my sergeant
and I'm writing up the full report on you know
who caused the accident. So could you give me Gallops
age, name, breed, and they're literally taking Gallops
information as the culprit for the crash
I wonder if he's the first dog to cause a crash
definitely probably the first one to cause the crash of a self-driving vehicle
I felt so bad for those boys. They were they were like
in a tizzy and I was just like, okay
Thanks so much for having me film. This was great
Bye now, I told them I took didn't I mom
I was telling everybody that
I did not think putting Gallup in was gonna be a good idea.
Mom: And even I was saying no no, it'll be fine
Everybody was like no no, no, he'll be fine just do it.
I was like no no I really- I'm listening to my dogs vibes.
I'm feeling what he has given me, and I don't think he's happy about it
I don't know what the moral story here is.
other than listen to your pets
Listen to your guide dogs or service animals.
I hope you enjoyed this story
It makes me laugh like just every time I think about it,
and I really hope that Silicon Valley went well for those boys
I don't know what became of them or their self-driving golf cart
But honestly like for 3 guys and a university project like good for them
They did well for themselves
Smart kids, smart kids.   Stay in school guys!
That's I have to say to you. Alright
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