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John Berry
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VanMoof moved their SF ops two buildings from GM Cruise HQ in March. Wonder what the overlap was between their SF customers and what they use now. That side of that block of Brannan has felt nearly as dead as when the Cruise HQ building was a pair of parking lots and Cruise was being founded, 2013.
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John Berry
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Archive.org will preserve just about anything Internet for as long as they can. Just gotta search for the URL on their Wayback Machine and if not found have it save it.
wayback-api.archive.org
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John Berry
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Yes, but it looks like they took down the Daily Show videos, which they will if asked by the rightsholder.
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John Berry
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Nah, Waymo reported 17 crashes in San Francisco (esp w VRU) within seconds of a safety driver taking over just during Dec 2020 - Nov 2021, eg narrative & pic of one in the news. This year, an uncrewed Waymo ran a red light causing a crash bc telops failed to see the red light and told it to go.
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John Berry
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A Waymo robot rear-ended/clipped a parked car 2 weeks ago while exiting a parking space:
Maple St near 10th, Santa Monica
NHTSA is already investigating Waymo's robots for hitting parked cars and other fixed objects. One more.
We were told lidar fixed this.
www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/file/...
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John Berry
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It's in the air too.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201...
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John Berry
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Waymo's robots really were dumb enough to drive into a pole in broad daylight. Why does such "insufficient ability" have fleet driver's licenses?
>15 yrs & 5th gen ADS
~50 million VMT
~50 billion simulated VMT
= ~5k lb of crapware at speed
Recall notice pdf: static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2024...
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John Berry
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Maybe Waymo's robots “assigned [them] a low damage score” like utility poles:
www.theverge.com/2024/6/12/24...
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John Berry
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Tesla must face autopilot false ad claims by California DMV, per California judge. Hearing expected this year.
www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...
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John Berry
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You can file complaints with CA DMV and CPUC, Waymo's regulators/permitters.
Waymo's TCP number is 38152.
DMV doesn't require Waymo to report these incidents.
NHTSA is also investigating robots blocking traffic and driving erratically.
dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv-a...
cpuc.ca.gov/consumer-sup...
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John Berry
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Video of 2 Waymo robots side-by-side blocking both northbound lanes of the Embarcadero by Pier 38 around end of Giants game yesterday, ~1000 ft from the ballpark.
Safety drivers fix this.
www.ktvu.com/news/waymo-c...
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Baldur Bjarnason
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“How does AI impact my job as a programmer? – Chelsea Troy”
chelseatroy.com/2024/05/26/h...
> this approach saves you time relative to whether you’re already skilled enough to know when to be suspicious, because a large proportion of the answers you get are garbage.
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John Berry
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They should welcome the free testing. Sure is finding alotta bugs they didn't.
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John Berry
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Have they met the SFPD?
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Will Wilkinson 🏳️🌈
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It is a fun irony that the internet’s most valuable public good — a non-profit, volunteer-run, no-advertising encyclopedia — was started by Ayn Rand enthusiasts.
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John Berry
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Eating a small stone a day might help you digest glued pizza.
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John Berry
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A Waymo robot crashed into a utility pole in an alley it almost certainly shouldn't have been driving:
600 block W Roosevelt St, Phoenix, AZ
KPNX interview w person who hailed it and video of a make-up robot Waymo sent stuck in the alley behind their crashed robot.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAZP...
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John Berry
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Waymos often stop in bikelanes.
You can file complaints with DMV & CPUC, Waymo's regulators/permitters.
Waymo's TCP number is 38152.
DMV doesn't require Waymo to report these incidents.
NHTSA is also investigating robots blocking traffic.
dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv-a...
cpuc.ca.gov/consumer-sup...
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John Berry
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The article mentions several uses of the room, but none are to read the books it displays.
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John Berry
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Agreed. FWIW, the Cruise robot's mistaken decision to MRC pullover after running over a woman was in part due to a map error re a detail that hadn't changed in years (since construction of a bikelane) and should have been detected and corrected in realtime. Waymo's also exhibited static map errors.
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John Berry
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Of course I read that brief article. True, I only know you otherwise by your publications, social media, and cv. Maybe system testing is not your forte and too boring, but it remains you've no good reason to rate Cruise so highly. Cruise is not a serious competitor, it's a >$10 Billion money pit.
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John Berry
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How could you possibly know what "testing info" any of these companies have that's been withheld from the public? How could you know its quality, quantity, methods, results, etc? This is a huge safety & political issue. GM Cruise mislead regulators & public re "info" for which it's facing fines.
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John Berry
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Sigh, Tesla has lotta problems, and so do Cruise and Waymo. And no, Cruise and Waymo do NOT have publicly available "documented verified testing" or if they do, please provide a link. Sheesh, Waymo even sued California to hide safety data from the public.
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John Berry
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Of course something NO ONE CAN EVEN DEFINE in a vigourous or rigourous way is too hard and always repeat always "years away." Peter Norton wrote a whole history of this scam: Autonorama. US regulators have been allowing car mfg to ship dangerous automation tech for decades. US needs tougher laws.
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John Berry
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Lol, just because you say Cruise is doing something doesn't mean they are or have been. At least 4 different "authorities" are investigating Cruise's dubious behavior, including Federal DoJ, SEC, NHTSA, and California DMV. Tesla is as rogue as regulators let them get away with and Cruise too.
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John Berry
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GM Cruise has certainly not been "vigorously testing with credible scientific methodologies." Quite the opposite: Cruise's ops was a FUBAR nightmare. If they had, their tech wouldn't have been found "not safe" and their driverless permits suspended by their most important regulator: California DMV.
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John Berry
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Video of someone stomping on/in the windshield of a Waymo robot on Market Street in front of the Mint, toward sunset.
www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancis...
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Bay Area News
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14-year-old boy to be charged for allegedly setting Waymo car on fire
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John Berry
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long arc bends toward ED-209: "You have five seconds to"
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John Berry
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Bill Casey did it.
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John Berry
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Sometimes it is even the same problem, like when Waymo and Cruise robots needing to 'talk' with first responders and construction crews have had to call a telops person to act as their interpreter.
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John Berry
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cooperate to co-operate
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John Berry
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Waymo's had @CA_DMV permit allowing speeds up to 65 mph on fwys in parts of California for >3.5 years. Getting these permits from clueless regulators implies regulatory capture not technical capability.
www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/news-...
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John Berry
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More video of Waymo robots stopped by "STOP" sign tshirts.
Should be tested without pedestrian on a pole+hanger.
Something for your roboapocalypse survival kit.
Wonder if it works in kid sizes.
Should fooling robots or fool robots be outlawed?
www.instagram.com/reel/C5O_hV8...
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John Berry
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Whenever he tries it comes out 'dictator'
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John Berry
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Advertisers may be the real target, as people who pay extra for 'AI' enhanced search are self-selected marks.
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The irony though of conveying that to a GM CEO whose entire robot fleet is grounded indefinitely because they were too unsafe.
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John Berry
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Perhaps to go along with a world-wide minimum corporate tax.
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John Berry
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Their total cost for remote includes tech and comm costs they don't have for direct in-store labor. Remote probably also has worse performance, ie higher error rates and lower revenue/customer. Seems they ran a large enough test to disqualify remote and exhaust AI efficiencies.
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John Berry
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1000 people in India 40 stores in America = ~25 people per store, which is more than it would take to staff checkout
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John Berry
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Every day is zero day for Eric Adams.
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John Berry
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“When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.”
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John Berry
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Too bad you didn't ask Waymo about their robot that hit and injured a cyclist Feb 6th in San Francisco and then drove away from the scene (hit and run) and "was then returned to the scene by one of Waymos roadside assistance specialists." Waymo's full NHTSA crash report narrative:
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John Berry
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Waymo's costs are many times what they charge. These prices are just nominal, not at all related to their costs. Waymo is NOT economical and has NO cost advantages. They have more people/labor supporting their robots than it would take to drive them.
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John Berry
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Better than something/Cruise so unsafe it would be illegal to have made the same trip is heckuva faint praise. Why did Waymo screw up the route? Why did it take you through the heart of SF, which is neither the the fastest nor the safest way to get to Fisherman's Wharf from Stonestown?
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John Berry
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This is about reality not rooting. The reality of janky robots on public roads causing problems, frequently violating traffic laws w impunity, and with negligible regulation or oversight. Waymo's robots can't even be given a ticket for a moving violation in California bc of a regulatory loophole.
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John Berry
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Yes, I read your posts. I agree we should have fewer drivers and safer roads. The robots are NOT better drivers. They fail in many ways humans nearly never do and so utterly that the humans around them have to compensate. And they do it at rates orders of magnitude higher than human drivers.
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John Berry
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They also have stopped in a travel lane on the freeway in San Francisco and here's a video of one nearly crashing during freeway testing recently in Arizona. Gonna be a long time if ever before they replace many human drivers.
www.youtube.com/shorts/A8CMJ...
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John Berry
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Waymo's robots are NOT safe or reliable. One hit a cyclist in SF last month and then drove away from the scene, ie hit and run, according to Waymo's just released report to NHTSA (pic).
Video of a Waymo robot trapped in a Venice parking lot requiring human rescue:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbEp...
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