That is the sound I make any time I see a robotaxi wending its way along the streets of San Diego or on news footage of driverless vehicles causing a traffic cluster headache in the Bay Area.
It is the same sound I made when ride-share operators first came on the scene.
Locally, some San Diego cabbies flocked to join the ride-share game while others without a vehicle at their disposal were left on the side of the road.
While driverless taxis like Waymo are not in Chula Vista or National City, you can hear the electric passenger vehicles rumbling toward South County.
Already, Uber is reportedly laying off 10 percent of its workforce in anticipation of the hit they’ll take from robotaxis.