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What would Elon Musk's new political party be called? Wrong answers only
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SLOW THE FUCK DOWN, ELON MUSK AND DONALD TRUMP. AMERICA'S GOING TO RUN OUT OF POPCORN
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@MatthewW_eacc @LinusEkenstam I live in SF 'burbs and don't have a car. Waymo helps me continue to do that and keeps my wife and daughters safe at night as well as the pedestrians in my neighborhood.
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Uber is Dead, my reflections on Waymo
I’ve been in San Francisco for just over a week, during which I’ve taken 7 rides with Waymo, a similar number with Uber, and a few with FSD Teslas.
My journey to SFO via Uber was alarming—the driver veered out of the lane multiple times and nearly crashed on a ramp, seemingly vying for a one-star rating or to genuinely scare me.
Conversely, my experiences with Waymo were virtually flawless, if you don’t consider overly cautious driving a fault.
I experienced a minor hiccup when we got stuck behind parked cars because the vehicle thought they were queuing at a red light. It quickly resolved the confusion and moved on, which was rather amusing.
Waymo, and other Level 5 autonomous vehicles, are poised to revolutionize the movement of people and goods.
The most apt analogy I can think of is that Waymo is transforming the real world into an automated Amazon warehouse, with people as the goods and Waymo vehicles as the robots shuttling them around.
With the advent of personal transportation becoming incredibly affordable, sending anything from point A to point B using a self-driving electric vehicle will soon be within easy reach.
One of Waymo’s standout features is privacy. Riding in an Uber often means being subjected to the driver’s loud group chats on some app, making the journey neither quiet nor private.
In contrast, Waymo offers a fully private experience, allowing you to have confidential phone conversations or chat freely with fellow passengers without distraction.
Waymo also reimagines the concept of a car. Without the need for a driver, we can eliminate the front console, reduce weight, and remove the steering wheel.
This opens up possibilities for passenger seats to be reoriented, perhaps facing backwards, or for the vehicle to become a mobile living room. Tomorrow’s vehicle designs will differ drastically from today’s.
Destinations that are currently expensive and logistically complicated to reach via Taxi/Uber, often lying outside public transport routes, can be simplified to a single “Waymo” journey.
This could shift the current model of “Uber + public transport + Uber” to a more streamlined experience.
As more cars become self-driving, we could see a reduction in the amount of time cars are parked—from 99% of their lifetime to perhaps just 25%.
This not only improves unit economics but could also decrease the number of cars on the road.
This transition represents one of the most significant shifts for Generation X.
In conclusion, the future is autonomous, electric, and efficient. Uber, as we know it, is dead.
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#ScaredyCons #Blinken #NATO The party that talks tough on crime sure loves to bow to criminals. At least Dems won't capitulate to dictators. state.gov/secretary-anto…
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@LukeBornheimer @sfchronicle The fact is drivers just "hope" they don't kill in SF. There is nothing to stop almost certain death in such a pedestrian busy intersection if a driver makes a mistake.
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“The family killed in West Portal was doing what more people in San Francisco should [do]. They sold their car and chose to [use] the city’s robust public transit network to get around. The fact that they were killed by an SUV while waiting for a bus is an especially cruel irony”
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Please sign the petition to make this area significantly safer and public transit through the area significantly faster / more reliable now: actionnetwork.org/letters/westpo…
This tragedy was preventable, and you can help prevent the next tragedy.
Full editorial: sfchronicle.com/opinion/editor…
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@LukeBornheimer Have you noticed the similarities between anti-gun-control advocates and the folks replying all upset to make meaningful change after a horrific incident? It's funny to me how they don't see themselves as the same.
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Two people were killed in West Portal near the intersection of West Portal Avenue and Ulloa Street — an intersection with multiple Muni bus and train stops — and SFMTA should close the intersection to car traffic while it studies improvements.
Statement ➡️docs.google.com/document/d/e/2…
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@sfstandard @AlexRoy144 I appreciate this piece. @waymo does great work. We (me, wife, and 2 teen girls) take ebikes or Muni by day and Waymo at night. No car for 8 years. We've followed AEVs on our bikes to protect us from human drivers. We also took @TheWarOnCars on a ride :)
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“If the AV industry is ever to be regulated wisely, it needs smarter critics. If the AV industry is to grow safely and responsibly, it needs better defenders.”
— Alex Roy @alexroy144
#SFSOpinion sfstandard.com/2024/03/13/way…
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@sfstandard The city should have closed the road as the @waymo showed them it shouldn't have been used for cars. No car should have been on that road.
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OPINION: ‘Some have rushed, as they do, to try to turn this act of vandalism into something more than it is. Some are trying to desperately resurrect the false doom loop narrative” — Mayor London Breed on a destroyed Waymo.
#SFSOpinion sfstandard.com/2024/02/16/san…
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Prices went up AGAIN last month. Gas is up. Groceries are up.
Overall, prices are up by more than 17% since @JoeBiden took office.
foxbusiness.com/economy/cpi-in…
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@DanielLurie @waymo just like ANY driver, needs to better account for the pedestrian density in a given area, especially egregious situations where a car cannot effectively operate. The city should have closed down the street to ALL cars. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
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Shocking scenes from Chinatown on Saturday night. If people can feel comfortable burning cars in the middle of our streets, something has gone terribly wrong in San Francisco. These actions must have consequences. Enough. sfstandard.com/2024/02/10/way…
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@GrabinerEran @SafeStreetRebel Well put. It's been made tragically clear that safety and survival (SafeStreet - sic) of those that choose not to live with cars is the not intent of these actions and their supporters.
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@SafeStreetRebel Remember this position when they start burning it while people are inside. You are doing a very good job in normalizing violence. If this is the devil, the road to people using it are the devil is shorter than you think.
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actually it was cool as hell
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My statement regarding the arson incident of an autonomous vehicle this past weekend. ⬇️
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@21five_public @SafeStreetRebel yah, keep posting this as an example of a Waymo doing wrong. Everyone needs to see the terror.
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@SukritGanesh @marcviloria @Gia_Vang People feel sympathy for drivers and driving badly because they drive badly too. Plus, cars are annoying to pedestrians, AEVs don't have a human in them. Chance of intentional destruction is another parameter that @Waymo is going to have to account for. Expect equity lawsuits.
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BREAKING: An autonomous Waymo vehicle is intentionally set on fire in Chinatown, according to SF Fire. Firefighters said they got reports around 10 people were involved.
Waymo said “a crowd surrounded and vandalized the vehicle, breaking the window and throwing a firework …
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