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This article is all over the place. It just felt like complaint soup. They start on about Uber and Lyft causing increased traffic and then turn to complain abo

This article is all over the place. It just felt like complaint soup. They start on about Uber and Lyft causing increased traffic and then turn to complain about the tech busses (a measure to reduce traffic!) in the same breath. I don't really see what the Facebook ads story adds to the local politics angle. Did the author have a source for the waymo car "causing" another vehicle pinwheel (I assume this means spin out) and fleeing the scene? That seems really serious. As for the scooters, another clean solution to reduce traffic, but people throw a shit fit cause they're tech. Don't get me wrong, these companies are awful. Ads are psychological warfare, Facebook has done actual experiments to affect people's moods. So many of these products are designed to be addictive, capturing our attention for their profit. As well, the pervasive surveillance state that smart phones, apps, and data collection has created. This doesn't address any of that, instead it's just SF political pandering. Edit: The article has like / share buttons for basically all these companies at the bottom of the page.

TarpitCarnivore 8y ago
> Did the author have a source for the waymo car "causing" another vehicle pinwheel (I assume this means spin out) and fleeing the scene? That seems really serious. It was from a New Yorker story this week where there were emails from Lewandowski discussing an accident. This is linked in the post so I don't know how you missed it.
- UncleEntity 8y ago
  Funnily, the description of the accident makes it the human driver's fault for failing to properly merge into traffic though it implies the robo car was at fault for "boxing in" the other car. Back when I drove trucks I put many a Californian driver on the shoulder under the exact same circumstances -- law says trucks must use the right lane and can't exceed 55mph so that's what I did to the detriment of people yacking on the cellphone and Oh, Shit, truck!!! as they come barreling down the onramp without even giving a basic attempt to safely merge.
- variable11 8y ago
  The sociopath with his own techbro religion? https://www.wired.com/story/god-is-a-bot-and-anthony-levandowski-is-his-messenger/ https://www.wired.com/story/god-is-a-bot-and-anthony-levando...
- TACIXAT 8y ago
  >This is linked in the post so I don't know how you missed it. It's almost as if my brain is trained to completely ignore underlined text from all the sites that use it for inter-linking spam. Seriously, didn't even notice it.

TarpitCarnivore 8y ago

> Did the author have a source for the waymo car "causing" another vehicle pinwheel (I assume this means spin out) and fleeing the scene? That seems really serious. It was from a New Yorker story this week where there were emails from Lewandowski discussing an accident. This is linked in the post so I don't know how you missed it.

UncleEntity 8y ago
Funnily, the description of the accident makes it the human driver's fault for failing to properly merge into traffic though it implies the robo car was at fault for "boxing in" the other car. Back when I drove trucks I put many a Californian driver on the shoulder under the exact same circumstances -- law says trucks must use the right lane and can't exceed 55mph so that's what I did to the detriment of people yacking on the cellphone and Oh, Shit, truck!!! as they come barreling down the onramp without even giving a basic attempt to safely merge.
variable11 8y ago
The sociopath with his own techbro religion? https://www.wired.com/story/god-is-a-bot-and-anthony-levandowski-is-his-messenger/ https://www.wired.com/story/god-is-a-bot-and-anthony-levando...
TACIXAT 8y ago
>This is linked in the post so I don't know how you missed it. It's almost as if my brain is trained to completely ignore underlined text from all the sites that use it for inter-linking spam. Seriously, didn't even notice it.