Have seen the Waymos when they get jammed up in one area and can't figure out how to maneuver 😂 People can wave to a particular driver to move so everyone else can but Waymos aren't that smart. Cool cars though!
Hey buddy wanna split this? Lol just kidding. Keep up the good work man, I’d love to see you explore some abandoned mines and ruins out in the San Tan and Florence area. Lots of old history to be found in Florence!
I have always loved these ruins and have explored it several times over the years. Love your videos, by the way. Thanks for always exploring and sharing!
Years ago when I was a student at arizona state university, our archeology professor took our whole class to that site. His presentation was a combination of archeology + history. I am a very small percentage of pima indian. I was surprised that when my girlfriend at the time did some research per that the hohokam tribe and she located anecdotal evidence the modern pima tribe are direct descendants of the hohokam. BTW... the mascot for the new mesa community college was initially called the hohokams. After a few years the student activists demanded a mascot name change. Apparently, the student activists were somehow offended.
Steve's presentations are always a nice break from the political news media. People continue their respective arguments about the presidential election outcome. 😆
This was a GREAT video ! Thanks so much for your work. I love watching and feel like I have just taken a little break from the chaotic world we live in these days !!!!
You were in my old stomping grounds. I moved to Tempe in 1982 and lived in the Maple-Ash neighborhood for over 20 years. I have ridden my bicycle everywhere you were. Thanks for the walk down memory lane.
I've driven past there for probably 30 years and was unaware there was an archeological site there. A couple of other interesting places nearby are the Tovrea Castle and the Pueblo Grande Museum, operated by the City of Phoenix. Tovrea Castle is also owned by the City of Phoenix but offers tours of the grounds and home. You could probably get the City of Phoenix to give your a tour. Pueblo Grande Museum has exhibits on the Hokoham and some restored ruins. I believe they recently did an upgrade of the exhibits or were in the process of doing an upgrade.
Damn dude, you did it to me again. I watch the channel to see the cool and interesting places that you go. EVERY TIME you trick me into learning something. … even if I won’t admit that I enjoy it. Thanks !
I think it would really freak me out in a driverless car. I was just in the Phoenix area and I didn't see any of them. I used to live close to that park and walked my dog to those ruins all the time. I would really like to hear more about Mule Creek, NM. My dad used to live there. Thanks for all the great information.
I've driven through that area many times. I had no idea about the Hohokam people and their irrigation system, phenomenal! Thanks Steve for a great history/archeology lesson!
Using a driverless car to go to an ancient site next to a freeway and near an airport is ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT! You took the sting out of the noise and made it part of the adventure. Nice going!
Great piece of history Steve. Your research into these stories is impressive. Having lived in Arizona I had never heard about this tribe and the canals. Quite a construction accomplishment considering the time it was done.
Steve, we love your channel. You do such a great job. This video got me thinking about how much history has been lost when they built the airport, highway, etc??.. 😢
I can see the driverless cars replacing Ubers and taxis. No creepy drivers and none who will take you the long way to your destination just to rack up miles.
Instead it will take you a lot longer to get there. Just look at its car park exit. A driver would have done a quick u turn and left. Not added 5 minutes driving round the lanes to get to the exit.
Ya ok...and then people develop incompatible software and/or forget to push software updates which causes the system to crash while you're in the car at 65mph.
FYI all this stuff (Internet of Things, IOT) is very easy to hack into. If the makers are complacent, even script kiddies can introduce malicious code into these vehicles. Good luck!
High tech and capitalism's tireless march to eliminate all jobs. The "job creators" are really just "job tolerators," until they realize you can be downsized or replaced by technology. AI is gonna devastate our professions. Wholesale swaths of people are gonna be unemployed. I hope the driverless cars will pick us up from the shanty towns of the not-too-distant future!* * Actually I don't. I'll still by cycling and won't need this baloney.
*** for me personally, you have some of the best videos on TH-cam with you visiting some very interesting places with this video you have now traveled into the future! Bravo! it's a brave new world? 👍
Driverless car, pretty cool. When I was younger, I agreed with you. I wanted to always be the driver, but several years later, and older, I prefer to sit back and let someone else (or nobody, LOL) do the driving.
Steve I love your videos sometimes I watch them twice, being an Arizonan I was impressed when you were in Prescott a while back and knew to call it Prescutt, now I'm gonna ask you to pronounce Hohocam Hohocom 😂 Sorry it's an Arizonan thing.
I'm with you, Steve. I like driving and my input with the car. I also love history and the adventures you take us on. Thank you again for taking us along.
Papago Park is awesome. I've lived in AZ/Phoenix area my entire life and only recently learned about the Loma Ruins. Just north of that is Phoenix Zoo, and one of the weird things in the papago park north of you in this video is the Pyramid tomb on the mountain.
I drove past these places on the way to work so many times, but eventually stopped to check them out. What's crazier to me is the changing skyline! And the Valley's vastly improved freeway and road systems!
Awesome natural beauty in Arizona. This Driverless car to check out an ancient historical location is a pretty fresh premise. A first for me. Thanks for your efforts, Steve.
It's good to keep an open mind about new technology, Steve, so well done. The missing signboard or plaque at the top of the hill is frustrating. That close to an urban area, it's too easy for some mindless vandal to come along and spoil it for everyone. I see that often in my home city, where even street signs are stolen to be sold for scrap, let alone valuable brass plaques... I've seen statues that are public works of art hacked and blowtorched into manageable pieces. The extensive canal system is fascinating. For some reason I've got Desmond Dekker and the Aces singing "ohh, ho, the Israelites" in my head after watching your interesting video.
I live in south Scottsdale close to Tempe and see those cars all over. I have yet to ride in one though so that part of your video was interesting also. It's amazing how when the settlers came here they repurposed the canals. Thanks, Steve, for another interesting video.
Thanks for doing two things in my backyard that I have always wanted to do: visit the ruins in Papago and riding in a Waymo. You’ve inspired me to go visit ( probably this weekend) and using the app for Waymo I downloaded a year ago. You’ve inspired me yet again. Keep up the great videos and cool places with history!!!
Thank you for highlighting the amazing people who pre-dated various invasions of non-native groups. As to "driverless cars," I am afraid as long as our non-existent "driver training" and collapsing traffic enforcement continues, it may be a great improvement. 😢
One thing that probably hasn't been considered, is if driverless cars become the norm, the police are going to lose a lot of the funding they get from tickets.
@SidetrackAdventures Yes, and potentially fewer hours waiting in court hallways on DUI cases & traffic collisions. Not sure I will be able to afford the initial payments and the maintenance. 🤔
I work part time for a Jeep tour company in Tucson. I share the same information about the Hohokam with my guests, as well as other things about the Sonoran Desert. I would add though, that the Hohokam were so good at engineering those canals they would only drop about 1 or 2 feet in elevation for every mile.
With facial recognition AI there will be a day, in the near future, when a WAYMO car picks up someone with an outstanding warrant they'll get a ride straight to jail.
Oh my. This could be the most metaphysical video I have ever seen on TH-cam. Seriously. It should be required viewing for secondary school students. On every possible level. Ps. Those cars would meet their match in my country for certain. it'll be decades.
Very hi tech Steve! Enjoyed this visit. I'd love to see the Hohokam relics in a museum there. I've found Potsherds in Gila Bend, fascinating area, It's funny how the indigenous people picked some of the best sites, thousands of years ago. Thanks, Bart
Wow, those canals are amazing - thanks for sharing your research and knowledge! Also, thanks for boldly going where I won't venture - riding in a self-driving car😳
"The future is going to come whether we want it to or not" While true, we DO get a say in what the future looks like. We don't have to settle passively for the future that makes the most money for the investor class.
Hi Steve. If you are still in the Tempe area, you might enjoy visiting another Hohokam canal area in Mesa. 1710 N Horne. My husband and I enjoy your youtube videos almost every day. We live in Mesa so it was interesting seeing your video of the Tempe area.
Looks like I just missed you again! I was in the Phoenix area the weekend before Thanksgiving! I saw those cars and didn’t realize they were ready for passengers! 😮 i honestly think the roads would be safer rather than all these distracted humans! 😂😂 I love the Papago Park area- I didn’t realize the history with the canals! Thanks for the tour!
Good mix! We have a lot of those automated cars now where I live and they were also without passengers for a long time, just circling and empty. This year I finally rode in one and see they’re rapidly gaining in popularity. Taxi and Uber drivers will be obsolete very soon, alas, like the world of the Hohokam, and in about 20 years, Sidetrack Steve will be doing a show about the disappearance of the drivers and the relics they left behind. 🤷🏼♂️
Wow I wonder how many times I have been on the 202 and driven by this place. I had no clue that was there. I may have to take a trip out there. Thanks Steve.
I need to add a correction. In the video I said we are heading to the Gila River but we were heading towards the Salt River.
yep
Have seen the Waymos when they get jammed up in one area and can't figure out how to maneuver 😂 People can wave to a particular driver to move so everyone else can but Waymos aren't that smart. Cool cars though!
Was just gonna comment on that, but you beat me to it
Taking a driverless car offroading, now that is an adventure with the potential to get you sidetracked.
I see what you did there! well done!!
I tried to see if I could get it out onto a dirt road but it wouldn't let me order one.
And if you get stuck, you could call Matt from Utah and hear him say some things about that while gettin' ya out 😅
@@Ganiscol A Waymo pulled out by a Banana.
Do you have tip?
Thanks!
Wow, thank you. You are too kind. I really appreciate it.
Hey buddy wanna split this? Lol just kidding. Keep up the good work man, I’d love to see you explore some abandoned mines and ruins out in the San Tan and Florence area. Lots of old history to be found in Florence!
GULP! Can't say I'd be comfortable with a driverless car..... at least not yet! Your a braver man than I, Gunga Din!
Especially when another human controls it, even if they aren't in the car. Everything is controlled by humans, whether people want to admit it or not.
What a good bit of history! Driverless won’t be on my to do list. Thanks Steve
The Phoenix area was my home from 1958 to 1975. Way different now of course. Another fine adventure with a futuristic touch. 🤣 Thanks!
This part of Arizona is really beautiful especially seeing the Hohokam ruins
there in Tempe and Phoenix thanks for another great video.🏞🇺🇲🏜
Glad you liked it. There's so much to see in that part of Arizona.
Sidetrack Adventures: The easiest instant 'like' on TH-cam. Keep it up Steve!
Interesting history! Thanks for taking us along!
I have always loved these ruins and have explored it several times over the years. Love your videos, by the way. Thanks for always exploring and sharing!
Thank you. Glad you like the videos.
Years ago when I was a student at arizona state university, our archeology professor took our whole class to that site.
His presentation was a combination of archeology + history.
I am a very small percentage of pima indian. I was surprised that when my girlfriend at the time did some research per that the hohokam tribe and she located anecdotal evidence the modern pima tribe are direct descendants of the hohokam.
BTW... the mascot for the new mesa community college was initially called the hohokams.
After a few years the student activists demanded a mascot name change. Apparently, the student activists were somehow offended.
Another very INTERESTING journey!! Thank you!!
You're welcome!
Thank you, Steve, for a few minutes of peace and travel.
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Steve's presentations are always a nice break from the political news media. People continue their respective arguments about the presidential election outcome. 😆
yes! i love to see youve made a video only 15 minutes from where I live, keep up the great content
Air flight anxiety on the road. Feeling of not having control.
Love your show.
way too terrifying for me! even anxious watching you guys.
Very clever. Love the part about uploading video to TH-cam. 😂 Thanks again for another great adventure. Take care.
This was a GREAT video ! Thanks so much for your work. I love watching and feel like I have just taken a little break from the chaotic world we live in these days !!!!
Now we know how the Jetsons felt. Awesome. As always, good job Steve.
You were in my old stomping grounds. I moved to Tempe in 1982 and lived in the Maple-Ash neighborhood for over 20 years. I have ridden my bicycle everywhere you were. Thanks for the walk down memory lane.
Steve! Yer string of interesting videos remains unbroken. 😁
I've driven past there for probably 30 years and was unaware there was an archeological site there. A couple of other interesting places nearby are the Tovrea Castle and the Pueblo Grande Museum, operated by the City of Phoenix. Tovrea Castle is also owned by the City of Phoenix but offers tours of the grounds and home. You could probably get the City of Phoenix to give your a tour. Pueblo Grande Museum has exhibits on the Hokoham and some restored ruins. I believe they recently did an upgrade of the exhibits or were in the process of doing an upgrade.
That was a truly remarkable story. Thanks for the trip Steve.
Damn dude, you did it to me again. I watch the channel to see the cool and interesting places that you go.
EVERY TIME you trick me into learning something. … even if I won’t admit that I enjoy it.
Thanks !
I’m glad you're enjoying the channel!
You’ve outdone yourself again, Steve. Keep them coming.
I enjoyed the driverless car experience as much as the ruins! I've never seen footage of someone using one.
I think it would really freak me out in a driverless car. I was just in the Phoenix area and I didn't see any of them. I used to live close to that park and walked my dog to those ruins all the time. I would really like to hear more about Mule Creek, NM. My dad used to live there. Thanks for all the great information.
Love the juxtaposition! Great work!
Thanks a lot!
I've driven through that area many times. I had no idea about the Hohokam people and their irrigation system, phenomenal! Thanks Steve for a great history/archeology lesson!
Using a driverless car to go to an ancient site next to a freeway and near an airport is ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT! You took the sting out of the noise and made it part of the adventure. Nice going!
It’s “unremarkable” until it’s a computer glitch.
Great piece of history Steve. Your research into these stories is impressive. Having lived in Arizona I had never heard about this tribe and the canals. Quite a construction accomplishment considering the time it was done.
Steve, we love your channel. You do such a great job. This video got me thinking about how much history has been lost when they built the airport, highway, etc??.. 😢
I can see the driverless cars replacing Ubers and taxis. No creepy drivers and none who will take you the long way to your destination just to rack up miles.
Yeah. I feel like truck drivers will get hard soon with this technology too.
Instead it will take you a lot longer to get there. Just look at its car park exit. A driver would have done a quick u turn and left. Not added 5 minutes driving round the lanes to get to the exit.
Ya ok...and then people develop incompatible software and/or forget to push software updates which causes the system to crash while you're in the car at 65mph.
FYI all this stuff (Internet of Things, IOT) is very easy to hack into. If the makers are complacent, even script kiddies can introduce malicious code into these vehicles. Good luck!
High tech and capitalism's tireless march to eliminate all jobs.
The "job creators" are really just "job tolerators," until they realize you can be downsized or replaced by technology.
AI is gonna devastate our professions. Wholesale swaths of people are gonna be unemployed.
I hope the driverless cars will pick us up from the shanty towns of the not-too-distant future!*
* Actually I don't. I'll still by cycling and won't need this baloney.
Great video, thank's !
*** for me personally, you have some of the best videos on TH-cam with you visiting some very interesting places with this video you have now traveled into the future! Bravo! it's a brave new world? 👍
Wow, thank you!
That driverless car was pretty cool!!!! Scarey and cool…..all together!
As a resident of Tempe, I can confidently say I trust the Waymos to be better drivers than actual humans.
Fascinating Steve! I liked the history lesson as well as the technology lesson 🙂
"Futuristic" adventures? Steve. I got "Johnny Cab" vibes from Total Recall movie. Thanks for the view into the future 👍
Driverless car, pretty cool. When I was younger, I agreed with you. I wanted to always be the driver, but several years later, and older, I prefer to sit back and let someone else (or nobody, LOL) do the driving.
Great video. Thanks
Steve I enjoy all your videos, thank you.
Glad you like them!
Steve I love your videos sometimes I watch them twice, being an Arizonan I was impressed when you were in Prescott a while back and knew to call it Prescutt, now I'm gonna ask you to pronounce Hohocam Hohocom 😂 Sorry it's an Arizonan thing.
That's Wild, Heavy, annd very Cool! Thank you for the video.😎👍
Thanks Steve, I enjoy your video's.
Very interesting. Thanks for the video.
I'm with you, Steve. I like driving and my input with the car. I also love history and the adventures you take us on. Thank you again for taking us along.
you are freaking Brave Steve...no way will i get into a driverless car..no way..I bow to you
Nice! Thanks for sharing!
Papago Park is awesome. I've lived in AZ/Phoenix area my entire life and only recently learned about the Loma Ruins. Just north of that is Phoenix Zoo, and one of the weird things in the papago park north of you in this video is the Pyramid tomb on the mountain.
I drove past these places on the way to work so many times, but eventually stopped to check them out. What's crazier to me is the changing skyline! And the Valley's vastly improved freeway and road systems!
Awesome natural beauty in Arizona. This Driverless car to check out an ancient historical location is a pretty fresh premise. A first for me. Thanks for your efforts, Steve.
Thank You Sir, always a pleasure, I don't tink I would get in a driverless car, your braver than me. gotta get back to work. THE SARGE
@thesarge4457 I sometimes felt like we had a "driverless Deuce-&½" in the Army ... 😂
I’m still waiting on flying taxis ! Remember the movie “ The fifth element “ 1997 starring Bruce Willis and Milla Jovovich. Oldie but goodie
I can imagine the chaos if flying cars ever became a thing.
Thanks Steve, you never cease to amaze!
This is a great history lesson. I had never heard of this. Great job! 👍
Thanks for this. Enjoyed the " future to the past" reference. Good job.
It's good to keep an open mind about new technology, Steve, so well done.
The missing signboard or plaque at the top of the hill is frustrating.
That close to an urban area, it's too easy for some mindless vandal to come along and spoil it for everyone.
I see that often in my home city, where even street signs are stolen to be sold for scrap, let alone valuable brass plaques... I've seen statues that are public works of art hacked and blowtorched into manageable pieces.
The extensive canal system is fascinating.
For some reason I've got Desmond Dekker and the Aces singing "ohh, ho, the Israelites" in my head after watching your interesting video.
I live in south Scottsdale close to Tempe and see those cars all over. I have yet to ride in one though so that part of your video was interesting also.
It's amazing how when the settlers came here they repurposed the canals. Thanks, Steve, for another interesting video.
i took a vintage car with no overdrive or A/C from tuscon to vegas and back. it was a stock 57 chevy. in my opinion, the best way to visit old places.
Your a braver man than I.
Couldn't pay me to ride in an electric death trap
Yep umm i didn’t see that cement truck out of control headed our way. 😳
Thank you for your videos.
You're welcome!
Thanks for doing two things in my backyard that I have always wanted to do: visit the ruins in Papago and riding in a Waymo. You’ve inspired me to go visit ( probably this weekend) and using the app for Waymo I downloaded a year ago. You’ve inspired me yet again. Keep up the great videos and cool places with history!!!
Thank you for highlighting the amazing people who pre-dated various invasions of non-native groups. As to "driverless cars," I am afraid as long as our non-existent "driver training" and collapsing traffic enforcement continues, it may be a great improvement. 😢
One thing that probably hasn't been considered, is if driverless cars become the norm, the police are going to lose a lot of the funding they get from tickets.
@SidetrackAdventures Yes, and potentially fewer hours waiting in court hallways on DUI cases & traffic collisions. Not sure I will be able to afford the initial payments and the maintenance. 🤔
I work part time for a Jeep tour company in Tucson. I share the same information about the Hohokam with my guests, as well as other things about the Sonoran Desert. I would add though, that the Hohokam were so good at engineering those canals they would only drop about 1 or 2 feet in elevation for every mile.
Thanks for another great adventure Steve, best part of my Wednesday
I atill love driving manual transmissions 3 of my 4 vehicles are manual. No rush for self driving
With facial recognition AI there will be a day, in the near future, when a WAYMO car picks up someone with an outstanding warrant they'll get a ride straight to jail.
The first Ho Ho's came from San Francisco in 1967. They are still delicious to this day, and this video made me crave them. Thanks, Steve!
Oh my. This could be the most metaphysical video I have ever seen on TH-cam. Seriously. It should be required viewing for secondary school students. On every possible level. Ps. Those cars would meet their match in my country for certain. it'll be decades.
The bike thing was funny. Love your sense of humor!
Very cool! I like the modern picnic area. Perfect spot for a hammock!
I walked the ruins just south of Camp Creek this summer. Supposedly a fort on a hill guarding routes into the valley and mountains.
Thank you Steve
I live in Phoenix and have studied the Hohokam! This was really neat to see on your channel! 😆😆
I admire your grasp of perspective.
You do an amazing job in making your videos. I really enjoy them. How ever NO ON THE DRIVERLESS CAR.
It was definitely strange being in it.
Been to tempe several times! Octoberfest is wonderful. And we can get a ride with the light rail straight
Very hi tech Steve! Enjoyed this visit. I'd love to see the Hohokam relics in a museum there. I've found Potsherds in Gila Bend, fascinating area, It's funny how the indigenous people picked some of the best sites, thousands of years ago. Thanks, Bart
Great video Steve! I’m a recent subscriber, and I’m glad I discovered your channel. Keep up the amazing work!
Thank you! I'm glad you found the channel.
I kind of envy you as you now have hours of videos to watch to catch up!
Pa pa go ! when I first moved to Arizona, metro Phoenix (which includes Tempe) was about 250,000 people....
Wow, those canals are amazing - thanks for sharing your research and knowledge!
Also, thanks for boldly going where I won't venture - riding in a self-driving car😳
Thanks for sharing.
Nice to see my old stomping grounds...ASU across the salt river from Papago park.
Thanks! Steve
Very wise of you to mix up the rivers to see if we are paying attention!
That's way mo cooler than I thought.
Too cool.
Driverless cars are neat.
Nice! I'm gonna be in Phoenix in a couple weeks, might check out one of those cars :)
Can’t wait to the driverless future!
Great video. My mother lives just east of there, off the 87.
As you kept mentioning the "Ho Ho Cam", I kept waiting to see videos of Santa Claus... 'tis the season - 'ya know!
"The future is going to come whether we want it to or not"
While true, we DO get a say in what the future looks like. We don't have to settle passively for the future that makes the most money for the investor class.
I lived in Chandler for over 20 years and didn't know about these (canals and ruins)! Darn!
Hi Steve. If you are still in the Tempe area, you might enjoy visiting another Hohokam canal area in Mesa. 1710 N Horne. My husband and I enjoy your youtube videos almost every day. We live in Mesa so it was interesting seeing your video of the Tempe area.
Looks like I just missed you again! I was in the Phoenix area the weekend before Thanksgiving! I saw those cars and didn’t realize they were ready for passengers! 😮 i honestly think the roads would be safer rather than all these distracted humans! 😂😂 I love the Papago Park area- I didn’t realize the history with the canals! Thanks for the tour!
If you're still in the area, the S'edav Va'aki museum is really interesting. They have a some more ruins that are fairly well preserved
Good mix! We have a lot of those automated cars now where I live and they were also without passengers for a long time, just circling and empty. This year I finally rode in one and see they’re rapidly gaining in popularity.
Taxi and Uber drivers will be obsolete very soon, alas, like the world of the Hohokam, and in about 20 years, Sidetrack Steve will be doing a show about the disappearance of the drivers and the relics they left behind. 🤷🏼♂️
THANKS STEVE 😊
You are brave for taking that car 😂 thanks for this adventure 😊
Wow I wonder how many times I have been on the 202 and driven by this place. I had no clue that was there. I may have to take a trip out there. Thanks Steve.