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Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace. Buddha

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

10 months

I'm going to try to use the term DR: Dependent Robot instead of AV: Autonomous Vehicle because Waymo, Cruise et al bots depend too much on realtime human assistance to be considered autonomous and cloud supported robotics is the key/novel/unreliable tech, not the vehicle.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

1 year

Wonder how much office can be converted to "bedrooms" before it runs afoul of San Francisco code or at least requires a permit and inspections. AFAIK, the answer is 0, but then I never covertly converted office to residential. Don't see new permits for 1355 Market. @sfplanning

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Elon Musk has converted some rooms at Twitter HQ into bedrooms for employees as part of the "extremely hardcore" Twitter 2.0. They look like sad hotel rooms, per a photo shared with @Forbes . From me & @cfarivar

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

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GM Cruise's $9 Billion human DEPENDENT ROBOTS: 1.5 human ops per robot 2.5-5 VMT per human "assist" Ignore the people behind the curtain goosing the incompetent robot to fool the world. No wonder Cruise employees have dumped >$800 million stock. From today's NYT article:

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

3 months

@newinquiry wayback machine copy:

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An American Education: Notes from UATX

revolution in education! A resuscitation of the university mission! To happen in, of all places, not the pompous old northeast or the debauched West Coast, not New York or California but the countr…

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

7 years

@sarahkendzior Gold star mothers should join with the mother of Heather Heyer and refuse his calls. Trump is "a person to be shunned" -- David Letterman.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

14 days

Waymo robot with a passenger briefly driving on the wrong side of Mission St approaching 2nd. If it was to avoid the unicyclists, then who's driving whom/what? Is the future of transport humans on 1 & 2 wheelers herding/driving dumber than cattle robots?

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

2 years

@adamdavidson “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ― George Orwell, 1984

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@joshtpm

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

5 years

@NYPD13Pct @NYPDnews @NYPDTransport Zero Vision.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

14 days

@PoolPergola Waymo's gonna need a bigger 'look into further' team.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

2 years

@HeartlandSignal Who's gonna tell him about the Federal Dairy Program, the Dairy Margin Protection Program, the Milk Income Loss Contract Program, etc?

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

6 months

It took the horrific tragedy of a woman being dragged under their robot, which Cruise officially did not disclose to Federal regulators ( @NHTSAgov ), for people inside finally to leak what dangerous crapware they let menace 3 states for ~6 million miles of "unsafe" robot driving.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

3 months

@arstechnica Air Canada should give this guy a bug bounty. They are just lucky it was a mere single ticket dispute that alerted them to shutdown their crapbot.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

5 years

Uber is the fracking of the personal car. It injects low transactional friction liquidity under high marketing pressure to force open existing transportation & labor fissures to extract the last measure of mileage from the automobile and the last measure of labor from the person.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

4 years

@bessbell Derry Girls

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

6 months

@NHTSAgov The brutal truth is whenever a Cruise exec such as Vogt or Cameron said they had "solved driving" or it "works" they were simply misleading gullible people. And they made a lotta money not making it "work" well enough.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

9 months

@enelayy @Cruise You can file complaints with @CA_DMV and @californiapuc , Cruise's regulators/permitters; and a comment with @SFMTA_Muni . Cruise's TCP number is 39080. @NHTSAgov is investigating Cruise's (un)safety.

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Autonomous Vehicles Incident Form - California DMV

Notice on Collection of Personal Information Providing Personal Information Is Voluntary. You do not have to provide the personal information requested. If you do not wish to provide personal...

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

2 years

@BGrueskin @AndrewYang @Acosta Andrew Yang wants to fill the power vacuum in the center of American politics with a more perfect vacuum.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

1 year

@goosejackson1 @SaphireLattice @unclefuzzzy @HeyYo_JClick They built the police station right on top of a stream which is still flowing under it. Was only a matter of time before the stream won.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

9 months

@emilymbender con vergent

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

6 months

@NHTSAgov IIRC, ~2.7 miles has been the average Cruise trip in SF, per their CPUC quarterly reports (Waymo about same) So, this is ~assist per trip rate. I'm sure their full cost per "assist" was more than they could ever charge for the rides. They were never going to "scale" that.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

2 months

Waymo's 5k lb robot doesn't have the general intelligence of a squirrel or young child. So many failure modes. So fragile.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

9 months

GM Cruise's latest milestone: >$7 Million lost per day in 2023Q2 Nearly enough to wipeout the profit made by GM Finance ~51% annualized burn rate increase (slope of graph) GM Cruise will lose >$2.5 Billion in 2023 and has less than a year of cash remaining

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

5 years

@JayInslee Cars generate less green house gas emissions than Jump scooters per mile of person travel because >90% of the lifetime scooter energy is in manufacturing its aluminum and batteries that will be landfill before it travels even 300 miles.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

6 months

@NHTSAgov It doesn't matter what GM CEO Mary Barra says about staying the course, etc. Cruise does not have the software she thought they had and they aren't within many orders of magnitude close. Only matters how much $ & injury GM is going to waste before they fold like Ford with Argo.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

4 years

@kentindell @chris_csernica @TheKouk @Sales_Source @Inc FWIW, James has been misunderstanding the scope of y2k for ~20 years. As early as Feb 2000 he concluded the lack of "significant problems" was telling. Being a year bug, failures showed up throughout the year and beyond.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

9 months

GM Cruise is crudely attempting to solve their telcom buffering/contention problem with geo buffering (multi-block geofence around GG Park). Cruise uses dumb hacks to avoid fixing core problems, preferring to grow a service accumulating technical debt endangering the public.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

6 months

Somewhere in the hinterlands of cheap electric power, Cruise has hundreds of thousands of disk drives (maybe ~8 EB) awaiting the moment when they will be wiped clean when GM finally admits no one wants data from obsolete tech that never worked well enough anyway.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

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1st reported robot hit and run: The Waymo robot that hit and injured a cyclist Feb 6th in San Francisco drove away from the scene and "was then returned to the scene by one of Waymos roadside assistance specialists." Waymo's full @NHTSAgov crash report narrative:

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

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@SaphireLattice @goosejackson1 @unclefuzzzy @HeyYo_JClick The storm drain is trying to do the work of the stream. The stream still flows, even though they buried it. The stream's flow erodes the earth under the drain, sags the pipes, causing cracks and leaks, etc. So much easier to respect the topography and build next to the stream.

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@aniccia

John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

9 months

@sfexaminer Cruise admitted to 3 flaws instead of 1 before: 1) connectivity overdependence 2) pedestrian "interference" vulnerability 3) routing 9 bots into a known blockage @CA_DMV , @californiapuc , & @NHTSAgov need to require safety drivers until robots are independently proven safe.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

7 months

@FinnleyRyan @demianbulwa @jparkerwrites Exactly. What good are all the high tech sensors if the sw they feed doesn't obey the law? Cruise should release the pre-impact video so the public can see if there was already a pedestrian crossing 5th Street when Cruise entered the intersection.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

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@notbubbawallace Meanwhile:

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

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1st reported robot hit and run: The Waymo robot that hit and injured a cyclist Feb 6th in San Francisco drove away from the scene and "was then returned to the scene by one of Waymos roadside assistance specialists." Waymo's full @NHTSAgov crash report narrative:

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

9 months

@enelayy @MingweiSamuel @Cruise There are at least 2 other very similar videos of it driving at pedestrians in crosswalks in SF and many many videos of it breaking other traffic laws. @CA_DMV just does not seem to care.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

6 months

Another new milestone for GM Cruise: ~$8 million per day lost in Q3 Also: $70 million of employee shares sold/dumped to GM in Q3, $206 million in first 9 months of 2023 and ~$800 million total 2022-3, so far ~$0 (<$0.5) million in ridehail revenue all per GM's SEC filings

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

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@kelseyhightower Waymo: - 0.01% USA coverage - Has fewer robots than 5 years ago - Robot needs more human support than it'd take to drive manually - Spending $3 Billion doing 1 Million trips, annually - fails ~2 orders of magnitude more frequently than human drivers - often drives illegally

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

6 months

Waymo crash in San Francisco last Friday night Folsom & 11th St OP, @blckspkz , says "Everyone is ok but there were lots of people injured." If the automation was engaged within 30 sec of the crash, it should be reported to @NHTSAgov and a redacted version public ~mid December.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

8 months

GM Cruise's Terrible Driver's terrible in Seattle too Teach one robot to get away w breaking the law and you teach the whole fleet Scofflaw as a Service @TxDOT , @ArizonaDOT , @CA_DMV , @WA_DOL , & @NHTSAgov should require safety drivers until robots are independently proven safe

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@Cruise Your vehicles are already being parked in handicap spots in my fucking city, drive them into the lake.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

9 months

@Cruise @alfsan So, you confirm your robot stopped in the path of the turning truck despite the truck was signaling a left turn as shown in the video?

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

5 years

@sdornan @joshtpm The CNN version doesn't have Donald J Trump's signature.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

9 months

GM Cruise's Terrible Driver befuddled by a DPW crew fixing a burst water main Chenery & Diamond, SF Other road users have to cope because @CA_DMV , @californiapuc , & @NHTSAgov allow dangerously incompetent, untested robots without human safety drivers. @SFMTA_Muni @sfcta

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Rafael Corral

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9 months

Again? Cmon @Cruise #GlenPark #SF

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

6 months

Uh oh, apparently, GM Cruise also withheld from @NHTSAgov that their robot dragged a pedestrian ~20 feet. Over trust and don't verify Cruise's narrative from their report to NHTSA, per NHTSA's safety investigation they opened October 16, 2023, at link:

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

5 years

@rmchase @Bruce_Schaller This study found ebikes expand bike ridership in age and gender (see Oslo graphs). Women were ~2x as likely as men to ebike v bike, and those 35+ age were ~50% more likely to ebike v bike as a 25-34 yr old. Ave speeds tail off >27 kph for both, perhaps due to safety & road net.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

8 months

initial investigation found the Cruise car attempted to make a left turn from Gough Street’s middle lane onto Geary Boulevard and collided with the vehicle driving in Gough’s left lane —Sgt. Kathryn Winters, SFPD Cruise says robot was empty (headed).

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SF Cruise car crashes in bizarre driving maneuver, police say

A driverless Cruise car ended up busted in a San Francisco intersection for the second...

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

9 months

Whether you approve of coning robots or not, @SafeStreetRebel 's proven humans adapt faster and are more resilient than even robots built by the greatest geniuses money can buy. Such fragile robotech does not belong on public roads unescorted by humans.

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The rebel group stopping self-driving cars in San Francisco – one cone at a time

The Safe Street Rebel group has waged a war against robotaxis in an effort to end vehicle dominance in the city and promote public transport

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

5 years

In US, privately owned ebikes outnumber all shared bike+ebike+escooters combined, probably by ~~4X, generate ~~2X revenue, and deliver ~2-4X PMT; based on NACTO 2018 shared report and these estimated ebike sales:

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Rick Vosper: The reality of IBD e-bike market share, part one

Much Bigger Pond = Much Smaller Frog: The IBD's slice of the e-bike pie is a whole lot smaller than we think it is. It's time we stopped kidding ourselves about that fact ... and start getting a...

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

6 years

@KJHardy4 @DaveScottSC @JohnJHarwood They are radical reactionaries. Reactionary: to go backwards in response to progress. Radical: to seek change at the roots or foundation. Reagan was the first radical reactionary GOP POTUS, esp wrt taxes and spending. GW Bush wrt presidential power, even torture. Trump moreso.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

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@nibot @tmcw @Waymo No, they will fail to drive you at about 100X the failure rate of human drivers, per Waymo's own publicly stated performance to @californiapuc . And they often need human assistance to handle trivial issues:

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

2 months

Waymo robot fails to handle tow truck blocking most of the road. ~40 secs from robot detects block to remote assisted resolution (3-pt turn). Human safety driver would've needed <tenth the time. High failure rate compounded by high human assist latency.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

4 years

@Bos_imm @joshtpm Follow their donations. Never let a crisis go without a quid pro quo.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

9 months

@Shenanigans_ATL @SFMTA_Muni @Waymo @californiapuc Impressive. Perfectly spaced to allow cars and even vans to drive through unscathed.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

2 years

@henrygrabar Cheap ridehail ended more than a year ago, after having ended ~century of overpriced cab rides. Uber's ridehail has been profitable for >year partly due to increased prices. Uber continues to subsidize their delivery and freight businesses, though.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

3 years

Uber ridehail was very profitable in 2021Q1, ~$240 million net fully burdened less the onetime UK accrual. Consumers' cheaper-than-taxi ride model failed, not Uber's biz model. Uber delivery's massive ongoing losses limit their ability to subsidize ridehail back to ~2019 scale.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

6 months

OK, I've seen enough. Don't need a PhD or DNN or Exabytes of data or even Lidar to both detect and classify this: Cruise shipped the demo. I've seen a lotta SF startups do it, but never a life safety system and never after blowing $9 Billion.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

2 months

@kirabira chestless tshirt or onesie?

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

9 months

In the CPUC meeting today, GM Cruise disclosed they have a horrifically unreliable automation/robot. 1 VRE (vehicle recovery event) per 30k VMT US human drivers are 1 per ~8 million VMT Cruise's Dependent Robot is >200X times more likely to fail completely than a human driver.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

3 years

In 2020, Citi Bike had more rides than Bird with only ~40% as many vehicles deployed. They charged ~60% as much per ride, yet generated ~66% more revenue per vehicle per day. Bird also spent >$3 for every $ of revenue, as they have every year and did Q1 of 2021. Traditionalists.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

6 years

@GeorgeWHerbert @nordasaur @pd3244 @ben_rosen Increasing the House to where every state has at least 2 reps (~1100 total based on 2010 Census) would make the Electoral College more equitable (diminish small state bias), reduce effects of gerrymandering, broaden representation, and enable more Congressional oversight of exec.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

3 years

Graph of cumulative trips of Lime, Bird, and Citi Bike since they first launched. Over nearly twice the time, Citi Bike has provided more trips than Bird and ~half as may as Lime, though in a single geo instead of >100 geos and without losing ~billion $ like both Bird and Lime.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

10 months

An uncrewed Cruise AV blocks traffic both ways including an @SFMTA_Muni bus 1737 Haight St, SF 2 blocks from where a Cruise rearend a Muni bus @californiapuc @sfcta @NHTSAgov @CA_DMV should suspend Cruise's driverless permits, forcing safety drivers back into their clown cars

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Bay Area Viral News

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@cruise car stopping traffic in Haight Ashbury

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

8 months

The Waymo Driver stopped on I-280 in a travel lane on June 15, 2023, possibly in response to an approaching fire engine's lights. @SFFDPIO should post their AV Incident Reports on their website, like @CA_DMV does with their AV Collision Reports. They are eye opening & shocking.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

7 months

Selfishness of self-driving: People in wheelchairs forced from the busiest busses in SF because one of the richest companies in the world is unwilling to pay for safety drivers in their demonstrably defective robots. Permitted without accountability by @CA_DMV & @californiapuc .

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After 20 minutes of waiting, the 38 carefully let off multiple people in wheelchairs into the middle of the street They have no idea how they are getting home now, but the bus is completely stuck

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

1 year

@KarenLeeAlex @lorakolodny @sfplanning The difference would be the hospitals applied for the appropriate permits for that use and passed the related fire/safety/health inspections before receiving an occupancy permit. I doubt Musk bothered. Plenty of hotels & apts within a short walk of Twitter HQ. @sfdbi cometh.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

2 years

@joshtpm The servers that passed the messages should automatically retain a copy, possibly redundant copies, as well as the automated backups of those servers. A complete purge would take expertise and authority.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

9 months

At least the second time Cruise blamed connectivity for immobilizing many if not all of their vehicles. The other was in June 2022. Cellular services aren't adequate for lifesafety, ie driving. Cruise shouldn't be permitted to depend on connectivity. Solution = safety drivers

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@friscolive415 Hi @friscolive415 - A large festival posed wireless bandwidth constraints causing delayed connectivity to our vehicles. We are actively investigating and working on solutions to prevent this from happening again. We apologize to those who were impacted.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

4 years

@magikarpppppp @Thesixler @mobinfiltrator When all the barrels are spoiled, the problem may be in the orchard.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

2 years

@PhillipsPOBrien They misstated/reversed the poll results. Their poll found majority identify more with the party than with tfg. His popularity is fading.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

3 years

@KenMoir @joshtpm “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ― George Orwell, 1984

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

5 years

@erhanerdogan @zoox He wasn't jaywalking, that was legal in San Francisco.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

3 years

Solve two problems with one tantalizing mirage: 1) Distract the world outside the corporation with intangible over-the-horizon dream worlds. 2) Indulge the 'genius' CEO/founder/investor's pet projects so core businesses can run with less micro-mismanagement.

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All of this raises the question: why? Why spend millions on something that was obviously not going to work out? My theory is tech companies promise to deliver impossible things n order to cultivate an air of mystical capability that's invoked to mask real-world awfulness. 6/

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

10 months

Immobilized Waymo Driver in intersection blocks @SFMTA_Muni bus, forcing passengers to walk. Clay & Leavenworth @CA_DMV prematurely permitted uncrewed AVs without even testing them. @SF311 @sfcta @californiapuc @NHTSAgov

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From the sanfrancisco community on Reddit: [OC] Self-driving car parks in intersection and blocks...

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

2 years

@BlackMadness317 @SustainableFred @MaxKemeny @pete_forester @mrslabbintens @taylorgrayson @berkeleyside Also, UCB students don't all live in "a small city" (Berkeley, pop >120k). They live in a metropolitan area of millions of people. There's a BART station a block from campus.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

6 years

@kentindell @asymco @Tweetermeyer Here is a graph of kinetic energies using ranges for speed and weight common in USA.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

6 months

It is all fun until the forensic investigators arrive. NYT reports Cruise is getting some outside scrutiny for inside consumption only. I don't have enough fingers to point at all the AV industry cos, regulators, influencers, etc to blame for this mess.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

2 years

@evacide Guess Missouri isn't the Show Me state anymore.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

2 years

Old robohabits & routing bugs die hard. Waymo had the same problem in San Francisco, with "up to 50" cars a day making a u-turn at the deadend of 15th Ave. Waymo gave a ridiculous/nonsensical excuse then fixed it after they were embarrassed by a @KPIXtv story. Good luck Jeremy.

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Jeremy Thacker

2 years

@MayorGallego @Waymo Apparently you don't live at the end of a cul-de-sac where the bright LED headlights of @Waymo wake you multiple times a night as they turn around with no passenger dropoff or pickup happening.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

2 years

A large earthquake is a 'when not if' Bay Area scenario, for which USGS estimates cell networks will suffer >90% failure and take days to recover. Thousands of robocars could simultaneously be stuck in traffic lanes impeding first responders for hours if not days.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

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@EricNewcomer Don't have to root against something that fails so often all on its own. Waymos fail at multiple orders-of-magnitude human rate. So many failures of so many kinds. So many traffic law violations.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

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"a gruesome trail of blood was clearly visible on the pavement between where the woman was initially pinned by the Cruise vehicle and where the vehicle ended up" When is GM gonna fire @kvogt and his crew of safety clowns, PR flacks, and coverup lawyers?

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SF officials knew weeks ago that Cruise vehicle dragged woman

Weeks before the DMV yanked Cruise's license over an incident in which its car dragged a woman, SF officials knew all the gory details

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

4 years

@treysis @_julijane_ @simon_deliver Accelerometer sensor data for a cart rolling down a street is very different than a car. Google can certainly tell the difference. It is in the Android API. The only question is whether they bother with the extra processing, as it is only a few minutes * tens of meters noise.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

4 years

@EricPaulDennis @TESLAcharts @StultusVox @Tweetermeyer @PAVECampaign @AlexRoy144 With cameras having to resolve near field darkness with bright far field & headlights misdirected. Takes time to adjust from bright to dark. White face of concrete curb resolves before lane lines. Humans have this problem. Causes lots of fatal crashes around twilight.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

8 months

GM Cruise admits their robot clogged and complicated an emergency scene for at least 13 minutes, a mere half mile from their main depot. They also claim to have video proof their robot didn't impede 1st responders but will not release it. Subpoena it.

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Cruise pushes back against claims from the SF fire department

The company Cruise is pushing back against an accusation from the San Francisco Fire Department, which claims that one of the company’s autonomous vehicles delayed an ambulance after a deadly...

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

6 months

SFO's always been the key SF taxi/ridehail trip. SF gov owns SFO, sets the rules, and has Pres of SBOS Aaron (NIMBY par excellence) Peskin's ~endless "number of conditions." @EskSF & @MLNow generally have ~best reporting on San Francisco's robopocalypse.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

1 year

@Cruise @marshallgeyer "send us a DM" so Cruise can minimize exposure. As for Cruise's safety record, the development of their still very "not perfect" technology has involved at least 200 collisions in California of which 15 were "fully autonomous" (uncrewed) in 2022 alone:

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

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"Line of driverless Waymos glitch out and block the Portrero Avenue 101 onramp" San Francisco last night. Speaking of "malfunctioning" robots impeding traffic etc. Safety drivers fix this. @SFMTA_Muni @ca_dmv @californiapuc @NHTSAgov @SenDaveCortese

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

5 years

Uber is the fracking of the personal car. It injects low transactional friction liquidity under high marketing pressure to force open existing transportation & labor fissures to extract the last measure of mileage from the automobile and the last measure of labor from the person.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

6 years

@GeorgeWHerbert @nordasaur @pd3244 @ben_rosen No it wouldn't. The US has one of the least representative lower chambers in the world. There are many structural problems, not only one. And FWIW, there really isn't a structural problem with the US Senate. Just add a couple small urban states AND increase the House to fix EC.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

5 years

Embedded in these economics is a forecast (not a fact) that Bird's newer model scooters will average ~700 trip service life with ~$175 of maintenance. $0.94 deprecation/trip = $660/700 trips $0.25 ops & support/trip = $175/700 trips The roundness of 700 & $175 are tells.

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Travis VanderZanden

5 years

4/ In fact, our unit economics are already better than ride-sharing and we’ve only been operating a little over 1.5 years.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

2 years

@joshtpm Waymo not Google cars. Waymo's driven enough in San Francisco to have driven every block of every street >4,000X ave over the past couple years. Some residential blocks are driven dozens of times a day by both Waymo & Cruise. Will be worse in NYC. Phoenix:

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

2 years

Old robohabits & routing bugs die hard. Waymo had the same problem in San Francisco, with "up to 50" cars a day making a u-turn at the deadend of 15th Ave. Waymo gave a ridiculous/nonsensical excuse then fixed it after they were embarrassed by a @KPIXtv story. Good luck Jeremy.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

1 year

@kyledcheney Thin blue line of one Capitol Police officer.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

6 months

GM Cruise confirmed the NYT's reported: 1.5 human ops per robot 2.5-5 VMT per telassist The safest car (robotic or not) is stagnant.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

2 years

"The new [business] model, which was released in 2019, worked like a charm." @kevinroose misspelled scam. Helium's bandwidth pricing is as absurd as their cover story is enticing, resulting in ~95% of revenue coming from adding new nodes, ie Ponzi.

Maybe There’s a Use for Crypto After All (Published 2022)

Helium, a wireless network powered by cryptocurrency, hints at the practical promise of decentralized services.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

2 months

Another stunning video of a Waymo robot stuck in a trivial loop: S 15th Dr, Phoenix - drives down same ~half block deadend street 4 times - loops block on failure - telassist takes ~10 min to workaround - VRE called, was ~4 min away Video by @jjricks_

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

5 years

@joshtpm Her husband is a billionaire coal baron from KY, major Trump donor, and cozy with Scott Pruitt.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

1 year

@MrPaul24 @sf_mills No, they are statistically much worse drivers than human average. Any human driver incapacitated as frequently as Cruise's robots would lose their license. They are so bad and dangerous that they are under a safety investigation by @NHTSAgov :

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

5 months

Bloomberg has damning allegations re "Vogt started softening internal safety review metrics...Vogt started bending the rules" People have been injured and GM has potentially lost $ Billions because Cruise launched what @CA_DMV has declared "unsafe"

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

2 years

Herd of Cruise robocarcasses fouled streets 2 blocks from San Francisco city hall for hours. Herd failures are a robofeature. @SFMTA_Muni

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Driverless Robotaxi Fleet Paralyzed for Hours in San Francisco

Apparently, the first system breakdown of a driverless robot taxi fleet occurred. In San Francisco, at least a dozen autonomous Chevrolet Bolts from GM Cruise Automation were spotted blocking the i…

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

5 years

@kimmaicutler @accidentalflyer @mcgd Facebook was purposely crafted and honed to be viral, like a knife is shaped and sharpened to cut. They made the weapon. They are the weapon; willingly unsheathed by the highest bidder.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

8 months

GM Cruise Origin crashed into a building in Austin 1212 West Ave Origin didn't have a steering wheel and needed tow truck to (re)move. Origin is Cruise's hubris turned to 11. From a list of complaints/reports to Austin City gov posted by Axios at link.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

9 months

@whollacsek @friscolive415 @Cruise Looks like they need human safety drivers until they learn all the skills they should have learned but didn't.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

6 years

@Harkaway There was a shooting outside my son's school in one of the best parts of SF. The safety "talk" is something african-american parents have been having with their kids for 400 years.

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John Berry (aniccia.bsky.social)

6 years

@JasonBordoff This study found "34% of ride-hailing passengers would have taken transit, walked, or bicycled if ride-hailing hadn't existed." I think these results are overall consistent with @Bruce_Schaller 's findings. More detail on this study:

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Ride-hailing increases vehicle miles traveled

Ride-hailing accounts for an 83 percent increase in the miles cars travel for ride-hailing passengers in Denver's metro area.

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