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The Self-driving Trash Can is the colloquial name for the SmartCan, a product created by Rezzi that is a trash can that rolls itself to a curb to be collected by trash collectors. After Gizmodo covered the product, a GIF of the product in action spread on Twitter as people joked the can represented things they didn't like.

History

On September 30th, 2019, Gizmodo^[1] covered the SmartCan, a self-driving trash can created by Rezzi which one can program to roll itself out to the curb to be collected by trash collectors on trash day. Rezzi was founded by Andrew Murray, and the SmartCan is their first product.^[2] The product is not yet for sale, nor is there a price given for how much it will retail for. The day their article was published, Gizmodo posted a GIF of the SmartCan in action (shown below).

Online Reactions

After Gizmodo tweeted their article and the GIF, Twitter users quickly began using the GIF in jokes where they joked the trash can represented a thing they didn't like. For example, user @DanSpencer^[3] joked "The new Star Wars looks good," gaining over 130 retweets and 1,100 likes (shown below, left). User @Starclusterr joked the GIF represented "Falcons highlights" (shown below, right).

Others commented on the effectiveness of the product. User @bubbaprog joked it would be effective for "the three people who live somewhere that their garbage bin exists on the same level surface as where they have to take it out to" (shown below, left). User @DerekaHunter said "We're well on our way to becoming the Wall-E world" (shown below, right). Reactions were covered by Twitter Events.^[4]

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