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MA Governor employs a VC who profited from the two most reckless US AV companies, aside from Tesla, and is "bullish" on the tech. Misspelled "bullshit" IMO.
Uber's AV killed a pedestrian, Elaine Herzberg. NTSB investigation uncovered a horrific safety culture. Cruise criminally mislead regulators.
Of course in situations that are too obstructed, a human driver can get out and walk around the obstruction to get a better look, something neither the robots nor their telops can do, which is among the reasons/causes for the very high frequency of ADS cos having to send a person to the stuck robot.
11.02.2026 16:22 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Human drivers also sometimes have to navigate around view obstructing objects, but all the ADS/robots (Waymo, Zoox, Cruise) have had a very bad habit of getting too close to the obstruction, needlessly reducing their view and giving less margin to react when they go around.
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Zoox telops videos show their operators setting blind waypoints, ie waypoints in locations visible to telops/robot but for which they've insufficient visibility to know if they are safe, deadends, etc.
This blindness/occlusion problem/defect is inherent/irreducible.
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Very good chance a telop assisted the robot. Zoox is the only ADS co that's released video showing an example of their telops doing this. Also the only ADS co that has allowed reporters (NYT) into and photos of their telops (Foster City), which IMO looks woefully inadequate/unsafe.
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SFMuni bus #22 PAX deboarded ~block from the next bus stop as a Zoox undrivable robot w PAX struggled to pass a double parked car:
16th & Valencia, San Francisco
A half block from where KitKat was killed & a block from where a Zoox recently drove into an open car door.
OP: ig.kyleandersoncomedy
"today...we don't comment on" the future, aside from in our marketing and advertising.
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I'll miss this tree.
11.02.2026 04:15 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0SFFD tending to a tree fallen on a parked SUV and a Waymo robot:
100 block of Sanchez, San Francisco
San Francisco Fire Station 6 is on that block, by Market St.
There was a wind gust warning today. Waymo robots often get befuddled by downed trees, but not often on them.
OP: tiktok.pablotavera83
Yeah, this was ~2 blocks from the ballpark.
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Do you have details on what happened? Was the bill tabled or?
11.02.2026 01:02 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Waymo was forced to agree to these SFPD takeovers after many such incidents that were kinda embarrassing to both. It's became a standard part of Waymo's first responder training.
Doesn't solve for when the robot just blows past police, as they often do, many videos, eg:
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Only took one Waymo robot to block the Vice President's motorcade. SFPD had to get Waymo's remote operator to disengage its robotics and allow them to takeover and drive it out of the way.
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GOP 2028: self-preservation of a lesser depravity
"Unless we ourselves take a hand now, they'll foist a republic on us. If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change."
The di Lampedusa strategy
ICYMI, this is a very rare video of different ADS directly interacting.
I've personally seen Waymo robots interact w GM Cruise and Zoox robots, but don't recall videos of one affecting the other in any unusual or interesting way.
The Tesla had time & space to change lanes had it acted ~sec sooner.
~same as taxi/ridehail: ~80% single occupancy, ~1.5 on ave
Waymo reports these details for all their rides in California to CPUC.
Waymo's passengers share in a sense with the other ~10 ppl on ave who have ridden in the same robot since the last time a human (Waymo contractor) cleaned or inspected it.
And the occasional stowaway.
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FWIW, after the Waymo telop said he was putting the robot into "manual controls," he said he's "putting in suggestions" which could mean anything inc the equivalent of pressing forward & left arrow keys.
Waymo has recooked their terminology so much over the years it could be mangled in practice.
Direct link to OP.
2:46 "I'm putting it into manual controls right now"
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"When my Waymo went down the wrong side of the street during Grammy night and some guy from the Philippines had to manually control the car"
OP
If as appears, this would be the most explicit video of a Waymo robot being manually driven remotely I've seen and telop didn't say his location, AFAICT.
As the telop was manually taking over, he told the passenger the robot would move slowly, which matches what Waymo has stated in their Passenger Safety Plan submitted to CPUC.
Pending authentication, it appears a Waymo C-level exec very likely mislead the US Senate last week.
"I'm putting it into manual controls right now"
Waymo telop, who then remotely drove a robot w passenger in Los Angeles.
Apparently, the telop "assisted" the robot to move a little, then manually tookover for a tricky left maneuver.
Video in 2 parts bc of bsky 3 min limit.
OP: tiktok.gstacks_sama
Whoa, Waymo robots routinely/programmatically violate traffic laws, as their abundant tickets, many videos, and even Waymo's app demonstrate.
Ever ride in a car where the driver stops in traffic incapacitated for no good reason stranding you?
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"making healthcare more accessible or personalised, which would simply require hiring more healthcare personnel"
Yes, they'd prefer to use something so complicated/opaque they can disguise/rationalize the firing of more healthcare personnel.
They make a desert and call it peace.
Without a safety driver in the driver's seat, Waymo can't even handle the least snowstorm. Waymo shutdown their entire Austin fleet for <inch of snow and Waymo's California permits require them to never drive in snow without a safety driver, ie their robot is not "a safe mode of transport" in snow.
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@ethanteicher.bsky.social of Waymo comms would apparently prefer lawmakers have the cognitive distortion of a ride in a remotely human assisted/dependent "autonomous" car than a safer and vastly more reliable ride in the same car w a human safety driver in the driver's seat.
10.02.2026 11:37 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0This @skirsner.bsky.social article is the best I've seen on the Massachusetts politics of getting a new AV law fitted to Waymo's very rigid needs. It doesn't go into the craziness of telops and robots stopping in traffic for no good/apparent reason, but it does have a couple illuminating quotes.
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FTR, the Waymo robot turned into the shared center turn lane:
2100 block of S Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX
Some of the biggest Teslastans are mistakenly claiming the Waymo "incorrectly" crossed a yellow line. What's most "incorrect" here is the road design, then compounded by the robot's timing.
Great example of 2 ADS disagreeing on safety.
A Waymo (too) slowly/aggressively turned ~maximizing crash odds, causing/inducing a Tesla to swerve.
There are too many videos & complaints of Waymo robots scaring a passenger or other driver by driving so closely/precisely to post.
OP: x.Tslachan
Nah, for Waymo is mostly routine everyday situations, as common as road construction, police and fire scenes, traffic lights, freeway merges, and stopped school buses. They've had these problems as long as and wherever they try to operate without safety drivers.
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