Too late to explore the the seas, too early to explore the stars, but just in time to buy the highly depreciated dream cars of my youth and learn abt scarcity of parts & mechanics.

🚨 Autonocast 347: Should Waymo pranksters be permabanned? Will Tesla survive Ed's door handle obsession? What makes Kirsten a real journalist? Will I explain how to get into our 2026 CES party? Also, why AV operations will be more important than the tech itself... Ep link below...

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Should Waymo permaban all 50 of these people?

FACHIDIOT (noun): A German, pejorative term for a person who is an expert in their specific field but lacks common sense, perspective, or awareness outside of their specialty, leading to a narrow, blinkered view of multi-faceted problems.

🚨 Autonocast 346: - I get pulled over for the first time in 15 years - Ed is more interested in the wild Silicon Valley Sperm Racing story - Kirsten brings it back around to Waymo's rainy adventures in Arizona. Will innovation win? Or will Ed drag the show down again? Link in thread...

I am thrilled to hear of the Israel/Gaza peace treaty. I fully expect 100% of those marching to #FreePalestine will cease protesting and embrace Jews as their partners in peace, and collaborate in building a prosperous and harmonious future for all.

Imagine reading this and then going back to work on AI slop generation.

Imagine being offered a post-defeat future/rebirth like that of Germany or Japan. And rejecting it. Nihilism.

So 9 years AFTER I wrote about how Tesla doors are opened w/o power, the rest of the world figures it out? www.thedrive.com/new-cars/154...

The high road HAS to be harder, or everyone would take it.

The word "awesome" is overused. What is the most trivial thing that has been called "awesome"?

HOT TAKE: Before making a public statement or posting to social media… 1) Read/watch the original post/video 2) Digest the FULL post/video 3) NEVER TRUST clips/quotes out-of-context (More…)

fuck yeah we are

To borrow a concept from @alexroy144.bsky.social, Ram retconning their EREV truck name to "REV" not only makes way more sense than "Ramcharger", it gives them a decent opportunity to take narrative command of the next big thing in hybrid propulsion in the U.S. www.nivc.us/blog/narrati...

Never forget.

T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon down ~4% in premarket Few understand this

It’s not just AI car design. www.jalopnik.com/1962073/ai-c...

THEM: Argue about JD Vance ME: Argue about Kojiro Vance Few understand this.

2006: night vision on my BMW 2024: night vision on my Tesla I wish every car had a FLIR camera So annoying having to do an aftermarket install But I will do anything to increase safety I wish this was an inexpensive factory option

YOUR FRIENDS: vibe coding, Burning Man MY FRIENDS: buy AZ’s craziest house on ZillowGoneWild, find severed cow head and bones on porch, call me for help hunting mountain lion

Multiple anti-American polity unity ops have been running for decades. Few understand this.

“Never ask a woman her age, a man his salary, or an indie musician why their parent’s names are blue in Wikipedia.”

🚨 Autonocast 344: Regent CEO Billy Thalheimer explains why the only thing more awesome than a Lun-Class Ekranoplan is a wing-in-ground-effect vehicle that actually WORKS, with a business model to match. Episode link in thread!

HUMAN DRIVEN 02 is out -Democracy Demands A Sword -Cyborg Semantics -Massive Unsexy Opportunity Link in thread

Phoenix thunderstorms are epic, terrifying and gorgeous.

No one should be allowed to run for mayor without mastering Simcity at the highest difficulty. babylonbee.com/news/mamdani...

Caption this contest starts now

“No, what happened to YOUR hair, dad?”

On this week's Autonocast, I review The Naked Gun's depiction of self-driving cars, Ed puts on his big boy shoes to explain Tesla's big loss in court, and Kirsten rolls her eyes (again) as she brings the show back to Earth. Also, a little Zoox. www.autonocast.com/blog/2025/8/...

Tucker 2025: Ban driverless trucks Tucker 1900: Ban automatic elevators www.youtube.com/shorts/dJrpl...

What do you think Tesla thinks this tweet means?

Am I middle-aged or is knowledge of history at its lowest point since the advent of public education?

How does a self-driving startup pivot from custom delivery vehicles to L4 software licensing? Nuro's Dave Ferguson joins Kirsten, Ed and me to explain their new plan, the partnership w/Lucid & Uber, and why deploying the first-ever luxury robotaxi makes sense. Then I ask an insane question.

You are not in traffic. You ARE the traffic.

Anki & Waymo veteran Boris Sofman joins Kirsten Korosec and me on The Autonocast to discuss bringing autonomy to construction w/his new company Bedrock Robotics. www.autonocast.com/blog/2025/7/...

“The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.” - Dwight D Eisenhower

"lidar vs camera" framing is two levels short of mature discourse re: the future of autonomous vehicles.

Kevin Williams is one of the best auto journos today Unlike the mass of lazy & incurious publishing AI slop-level reviews, Kevin traveling around the world to drive everything we can't get here His verdict? Chinese cars are amazing, and we should be worried. TOOL OR DIE ep link in thread

“Because we are free men!” youtu.be/JYqfVE-fykk?...

Without a doubt the most exciting thing I've heard in years. Niron Magnetics has cracked the process of making magnets with ZERO RARE EARTHS. Massive implications for electronics, motors, and the global trade order. IN PRODUCTION IN MINNESOTA Full interview below.

Minimum Viable Autonomy Theater (MVAT): When an AV company deploys the minimum viable autonomy product sufficient to perpetuate a narrative of progress.

Waymo’s Reality Command now intersecting w/Tesla’s Narrative Command. How long before Waymo commands both?

Half the reason we started the TOOL OR DIE podcast is so we could talk to Import Yeti's Dave Applegate and boy did he not disappoint. Great thinker, finger on the pulse of international shipping and supply chains, smart product designer. Show link below.

Tesla fans learning realities of Robotaxi fleet operationalization today.

936 Weeks Later and this is the best ending Boyle/Garland could give us?

The farm-kid-to-robotics pipeline is very real for Joel Johnson, who very much enjoyed talking to motmot.ai's Cale Colony about the pipe inspection robots they're deploying...and how he's planning on using that experience to sustain his family's farm in the future. www.toolordie.com/p/cale-colon...

New episode now live: @niedermeyer.online, @kirstenkorosec.bsky.social, and @alexroy144.bsky.social discuss the latest in Tesla's Austin deployment, before diving into the spicy flaming Waymo discourse. www.autonocast.com/blog/2025/6/19/339-flamin-hot-waymos-and-other-hot-summer-takes

On the best Tool Or Die yet, Elaine Dezenski (Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, ex-Interpol) explains to Joel Johnson and me why the United States needs an INDUSTRIAL PENTAGON. Link to full episode below