Rakesh Agrawal

I Took a Free Ride on the Vegas Strip in a Zoox Robotaxi: How Does It Compare With Waymo? Here’s what it’s like inside Amazon's toaster-like AV—and how it stacks up against its biggest rival.

I'm delighted that my friend @ragrawal.bsky.social was able to bring his eye for travel UX to this recap of taking Zoox robotaxis around Vegas. Verdict: Although their for-now price of $0 is compelling, they don't match up to Waymo yet.

It’s the best tv experience because you only have to pay attention for the 11 minutes of actual play time.

It’s the worst live sports experience because you have to be there the other 150 minutes, waiting for those 11 minutes to be played.

364 days a year, CNN's business plan is to let the worst lobbyists on Earth argue over each other. yet on this one day it becomes "get drunk and ask Lenny Kravitz where he is most ticklish"

We actually designed our car to be good at exploding

Journalism at its best. Journalists putting their lives on their lines to report the human stories, often with a small audience.

And they generally don’t get the big dollars that the pundits who sit in studios in NY and DC yammering the same staid talking points over and over.

Journalism at its best.

They’re not rich?

I’ve been holding this in but… seems remiss not to recall the assassination of the abortion doctors? The bombing of clinics? Why act as if this is without that context?

A psychotic billionaire bought a social media platform and turned it into a cesspool of white supremacists but sure, the people going elsewhere to post are the problem.

Alaska and Hawaiian co-located in T1 at SFO this week. It’s “the first of six relocations, which will soon include Sacramento, Ontario, Phoenix, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. The joining of airport spaces is slated for completion by the end of 2025.” newsroom.hawaiianairlines.com/blog/hawaiia...

Enjoy it while lasts. Communities start out good. Then once there is traction, the trolls line up.

The number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills.

Norway - 0
UK - 0
France - 0
Spain - 0
Portugal - 0
Denmark - 0
Australia - 0
Iceland - 0
Italy - 0
Finland - 0
Ireland - 0
Germany - 0
Netherlands - 0
Sweden - 0
Japan - 0
Canada - 0
United States - 643,000

the rich people pushing AI on everything are going to be the same rich people who will brag they can afford to send their kids to a school with human teachers

😂😫😂 #NYC never lets us down.

They are there primarily for your safety.

how far in advance did you check in?

when was the last time there was a six engine plane?

I gonna try this out. Maybe.

Oui

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