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by xnx 3mo ago
The California highspeed rail project is 33(!) years old.
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by xnx 3mo ago
Self driving cars are public transportation and make areas much more walkable and bikeable.
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by xnx 3mo ago
Just because it's not a train doesn't mean a self-driving car system isn't public transport. Free your mind.
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by xnx 3mo ago
Eh, the impression I got from this podcast ( https://www.searchengine.show/the-trial-of-the-driverless-ca... ) was that unions and other special interests were blocking something that the broader population would be intereste
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by xnx 3mo ago
The general approach to pioneering work like self-driving is: 1) Make it work 2) Make it right 3) Make it cheap For no good reason, Elon tried to solve step 3 before the other two. This is extra strange since SpaceX has done much better at
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by xnx 3mo ago
Also worth watching the source presentation which is really interesting and informative beyond the Waymo specifics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp4zrV3-6N8
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by xnx 3mo ago
> morons at the top of the chain of command and subordinates afraid to speak out Hey now! Let's not forget that half of congress is also complicit.
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by xnx 3mo ago
I also commend you for not "hogging all the work". If you've done well and don't have to work, it's generous to let someone else have their turn.
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by xnx 3mo ago
An exaggeration on my part. About 16% of all drivers are uninsured ( https://insurance-research.org/node/130 ), but "accident probability of uninsured drivers is 34 percentage points higher" ( https:/&#x2F
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by xnx 3mo ago
https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-f...
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by xnx 3mo ago
It's hard to see how Uber is in any way relevant to the future of self-driving.
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by xnx 3mo ago
Good calculation approach. Waymos will drive a lot more than 200K miles in their lifetime. Taxis often do a million miles. There are already photos out there of Waymo odometers over 100K.
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by xnx 3mo ago
Lawyers are salivating at the possibility of suing Waymo if they ever make a mistake. Much better to be hit by a Waymo (or a Tesla Robotaxi) than the typical uninsured, "judgement proof", human driver.
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by xnx 3mo ago
Elon's an ass, but the world needs self driving in as many places, from as many providers, as soon as possible. I wish Elon wasn't so stubborn about admitting he was wrong.
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by xnx 3mo ago
If Teslas could self drive you could sit in the back seat, or sleep, or send the car somewhere without being in it. Elon really wants them to, but Tesla's do not self drive.
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by xnx 3mo ago
The 100% tariffs on Chinese cars have been the biggest obstacle from not getting to that cost point sooner.
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by xnx 3mo ago
Gotta start somewhere. Still bigger than any competitor.
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by xnx 3mo ago
History of being anti-nuclear. Now against "AI" and self driving cars because they like trains.
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by xnx 3mo ago
Definitely true, but snow affecting driving conditions is becoming pretty rare in cities like Chicago.
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by xnx 3mo ago
Blocked even from testing in NYC. Blocked from DC and Boston. Unfortunately this does have more to do with bad government than bad weather.
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by xnx 3mo ago
Freeways are back as of just 6 days ago: https://x.com/Waymo/status/2082501792001056984
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Waymo in Dallas(waymo.com)
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by xnx 3mo ago
Ironically, AI has been great for Ed Zitron.
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A unified API for AI model routing(developers.googleblog.com)
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by xnx 3mo ago
Just astounding how immature a company supposedly worth billions can be. Add "no-context public legal rant" to the collection of red flags for OpenAI: CEO/"nonprofit" drama, undetected hacking, etc. This is the kind
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by xnx 3mo ago
Advantages: Lowest inference cost due to scale, experience, advanced datacenters and custom chips. Huge customer base. AI automation will make it much easier to switch from AWS to GCP. Serious organization that doesn't let it's pr
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by xnx 3mo ago
High switching cost.
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by xnx 3mo ago
Same. This chart is good, but would be a lot more interesting if it went back further: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/year-on-year.html
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by xnx 3mo ago
I think it is very likely that OpenAI stop operating as an independent entity, but more likely that Microsoft would get full control.
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> I see no reason why inference can't have a ~60-80% margin for quite some time. Same as anything with low margin: Viable competition and low switching costs. Many sysadmins lazily do 100% AWS because they don't know any altern

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