Calling it their “Week of Cone”, residents of SF reduced the threat to the city from renegade “driverless” vehicles by gently placing a traffic cone to completely shut them down. It had all the hallmarks of the extremely successful SFMTrA movement of 2016. As you may recall, Tesla’s “driverless” software back in 2016 murdered two … Continue reading Trivial Hacks Disable Driverless Taxi Infrastructure
Humans often get cited for being influenced by drugs or alcohol when they make terrible decisions. Autonomous vehicles (AV), on the other hand, need no drugs or alcohol to make such bad decisions. This often gets reported as an AV isn’t at risk from drinking, while in reality the risk is from… influences. And it … Continue reading Autonomous Vehicles Need No Drugs Or Drink To Be Bad Drivers
Here are two fascinating quotes from an article about how journalists should be trained to report on road deaths. First the government: “It’s as if we were living through a war,” Pete Buttigieg, Biden’s transportation secretary, said of road death rates in the US. “We cannot accept that these fatalities are somehow an inevitable part … Continue reading “Like we’re living through a war”: U.S. Road Deaths Hit 16 Year High
Unlike Tesla, which never seems to be held accountable for its serial lying and egregiously false representations, Uber is yet again facing penalties. The second offense related to estimated taxi fares provided by the app to Sydney customers between June 2018 and August 2020, when the taxi ride option was abandoned. The algorithm used to … Continue reading Uber’s “Algorithm” Was Lies: Australian Regulators Issue Small Fine