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Greg Rogers

@AVGregR

Advocating for better mobility for all. Founder: Aries Policy & @BeyondStreetsP. Alum: @Waymo @Nuro @Securing_Energy @EnoTrans @POLITICO @UCBerkeley

Washington, DC Katılım Eylül 2013
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RJ Scaringe
RJ Scaringe@RJScaringe·
I’m excited to announce a partnership with @Uber. As part of this, Uber plans to invest up to $1.25 billion in Rivian and deploy up to 50,000 R2 robotaxis. This partnership accelerates our path to Level 4 autonomy and supports our goal of building one of the safest autonomous platforms in the world—across both shared and personally owned vehicles. The combination of Rivian’s rapidly growing data flywheel, our in-house RAP1 inference platform (800 TOPS), and our multi-modal perception stack provides a powerful foundation to scale autonomy quickly and responsibly over the next couple of years.
Rivian@Rivian

A fleet of R2 Robotaxis is coming exclusively to @Uber. ⚡🌿 Today, we announced a partnership to help both companies accelerate their autonomous vehicle plans across 25 cities in the US, Canada and Europe by the end of 2031. rivn.co/uber

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Zach Molzer
Zach Molzer@molzer·
Introducing the Bus Bus Stop 🚏 You can just do things.
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Matthew Cappucci
Matthew Cappucci@MatthewCappucci·
I tried to take this same approach doing TV… admitting faults live on air was a risky gamble, especially when I was 23-24 in D.C. But part of being a scientist is being transparent when a hypothesis (forecast) is not correct. Science has no room for ego.
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nmoffett75@nmoffett75

the best in the biz - can you imagine how much better the world would be if everyone owned their mistakes and learned from them like this? Thank you for the explanation @MatthewCappucci

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Matthew Cappucci
Matthew Cappucci@MatthewCappucci·
What a HORRIBLE forecast by meteorologists – especially myself. Not only were we spectacularly wrong – we communicated poorly. It became apparent last night that some of our initial expectations would prove fallacious. I'd like to address what went wrong with our forecast:
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Martin Austermuhle
Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle·
Cue people complaining that D.C. totally overreacted. (The same people, I would note, that would likely criticize the city had schools decided to dismiss at the normal time.) You just can't win with weather here.
Capital Weather Gang@capitalweather

3:35 pm: The tornado watch set to run until 7p was cancelled early. Risk of tornadoes much diminished after midday showers/storms. Not impossible another watch comes later, and not entirely out of the woods until a front passes. Damaging wind gusts may accompany front late evening. Still have to watch for some atmospheric spin, too. HRRR simulated radar snapshot at 9p shown.

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Greg Rogers@AVGregR·
RT @capitalweather: 12:25p.m. Monday: Storms continue racing through D.C.'s western and northern suburbs, some severe The tornado warnings…
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Brad Hargreaves
Brad Hargreaves@bhargreaves·
I have three young kids. I have a demanding job. But I vote in every election. Why should I have less of a say in my neighborhood than a retiree who has all the time in the world to sit in 4+ hour long in-person community meetings? That's not democracy
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins@daniel_dsj2110

Habermas's deliberative democracy stands in contrast with the Abundance crowd who sees democratic deliberation as another red tape that gets in the way of technocratic urban renewal projects

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Alec Stapp
Alec Stapp@AlecStapp·
Paul Ehrlich was one of the most pernicious public figures of the last 50 years. Somehow he was still celebrated in certain intellectual circles until the very end. Never forget the harm his ideas caused.
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M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray

Normally, I don't speak ill of the dead but: rest in piss. Paul Ehrlich's work wasn't "premature," it was wrong, completely so, and evil: his recommendations resulted in many hundreds of thousands of coerced sterilizations and abortions among the world's most vulnerable people.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑
M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray·
Weekday 10am public hearings in which the wealthiest people in a community take turns shouting at planners for two minutes, and escalating to litigation when they don't get their way from elected or appointed officials, is not deliberative democracy.
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins@daniel_dsj2110

Habermas's deliberative democracy stands in contrast with the Abundance crowd who sees democratic deliberation as another red tape that gets in the way of technocratic urban renewal projects

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Andy Masley
Andy Masley@AndyMasley·
A few people asked me to make an image of how much irrigated farmland would use the same water required for ALL ChatGPT usage, including every part of the process. I did a botec and my best guess right now is that inference uses about as much water as training, and power generation uses ~5x as much water as the data centers themselves, so it looks something like this. The water cost of manufacturing chips is marginal compared to how much water they use over their lifetimes.
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Matthew Yglesias
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias·
Not only are these people wrong about self-driving cars, you have to understand that by their logic no labor-saving technology should ever be allowed. It's much better to have a mayor who does not embrace this!
Safe & Affordable DC@WashDC4all

Why is @kenyanmcduffie throwing unions and working people under the bus (or driverless car)? It fits a disturbing pattern from throughout his career of voting against working families. Cc: @tomsherwood @cuneytdil

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Anthony LaMesa
Anthony LaMesa@ajlamesa·
Thanks for your discussion. Re: your last paragraph, TNC companies said the same thing and yet they didn't really help transit at all apart from supplying some information in their apps. Rather, they more aggressively cannibalized transit trips by introducing Uber Pool and Lyft Share (before the pandemic killed those options). Let's see what happens.
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Anthony LaMesa
Anthony LaMesa@ajlamesa·
Sure, but the problem is that these firms aren't interested in balance and optimizing social well-being, but profits and growth (which is exactly what you'd expect). So like Airbnb has consumed entire neighborhoods with short-term rentals, you can imagine self-driving cars cannibalizing transit trips, Waymo lobbying against pedestrian streets and transit projects, and excessive vehicles causing gridlock. These cars are most useful outside city centers, but that's not where the money is.
Greg Rogers@AVGregR

Totally - there’s no substitute for public transit in urban areas (I’m writing this from @wmata red line), but the “transit or AVs” framing is a false choice. If our cities are going to have cars, let’s make them safer. If we’re concerned about more cars in cities, let’s start by protesting the largest source of them (car dealerships). Let’s provide more, and more excellent, multimodal choices.

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