Jason Murphy

The failure mode of gumboots. A photo essay...

I knew we got rid of shillings, didn't know we ever used Fahrenheit! The song references someone flying in from the coast, perhaps I can square that with the Fahrenheit if it's the old school meaning of flying, a quick trip?

Are you saying Australia used to use Fahrenheit?

The use of Fahrenheit in the song How to Make Gravy is just an egregious blunder by Paul Kelly, a man whose instincts are usually very good. No Aussie talks about it being a hundred degrees at Christmas.🦐

If you get out that book at a 4 year old's birthday party, a whole lot of elder Millennials will start reminiscing, hard.

Actually the kid is 4. He just wanted that one!

Shout out to my beloved who has *nailed* this cake from the venerable book.

Why did you put the best song in this lowly position, Australia?!?

The video at the top of the thread is the context for sense-checking the data. Were Waymos crashing at the same rates as human-driven cars, there'd be videos of it everywhere. What we get instead is viral videos of waymos being stuck and confused. That's their fail mode.

the way the human input works is to get a car out of a tight spot when it gets stuck. they don't do reactions to accident situations.
I accept that Waymos get stuck in dumb ways in odd situations and can be bad for traffic.

Driverless cars have an incredible potential to ruin the urban form. They could make our current definition of sprawl look very petite and cute.
But pretending the cars aren't safer isn't going to win you those arguments.

Yes it's losing money.
I'm confused by the insistence that they are not driving in the same places as people.
That is literally true - the operating space is bounded. But is the space so small and artificial the conclusion they're safer is unsound? imo no.

Safety Impact We're voluntarily sharing our safety data to demonstrate how the Waymo Driver is making roads safer in the places we currently operate. See the stats.

I recommend having a squizz at the data and forming your own view on what it really shows. waymo.com/safety/impact/

That's a great question. Waymo have done 100 million miles cumulatively. And they do 250,000 trips a week. Not as many as human drivers. But enough to generate a big sample. If the cars were going to crash at the same rate as human drivers, we'd see evidence.

Meanwhile the driverless Waymos are being permitted in larger areas. The tech is continuing to work well without any catastrophic safety incidents that we know of.
imo the trajectory here is one that will save a lot of lives.

I don't think I'm comparing unfairly! The video above shows plenty of crashes in 60km/h zones on city streets. There's one in the first 13 seconds.

Looks good/ promising up there!

those bells!! iconic.

Do you have space in your home for an appliance almost the size of a fridge? I sure don't. My roomba is annoying enough.

The evidence of the safety upside of Waymo is in already. These things are going to be excellent.

YouTube video by Dash Cam Owners Australia Australian Car Crash / Dash Cam Compilation 47

Ever seen a video of a self-driving cars getting, say, lost in a carpark and someone's scoffing like, UGH! these things! They will never be useful!?
Here's what I think of as a "comparator dataset" where we look at the actual status quo. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWTC... 1/2

Despite everything the share price is nearly double where it was last year. Gotta be the most precarious stock in the index!

those days are over I think

He has a new "masterplan" in the works.
He says to expect "teething pains".
but then ...
“tesla will be the most valuable company in the world by far.”
(!)

He will be "shocked" if they are not making 100,000 a month of these within five years.

He is talking a *lot* about his Jetson's robot:

Listening to Tesla's q2 earnings call and Mr Musk's demeanour at the beginning was stable and smooth.
But within just 15 minutes he is slurring his words and leaving long pauses. This could get fun by the time we arrive at Q&A !

Giving a country 'map measles' - dots all over the map - just because rich countries have that? No.

14 years and 7 months old. This Curly Coat Retriever is somehow both on her last legs *and* still desperate for two walks a day.

I tried rice cooker. Hmm. Not sure about what I've done here. Will keep experimenting...