It breaks my heart to say it but Spinal Tap 2 is not good.

TBT to Ice-T explaining the mods to my Cannonball Run E39 BMW M5 for APEX: The Secret Race Across America youtu.be/MTJRhQuqc3E?...

Sudden drone experts on 🔥 this week.

The deployment timelines of autonomous vehicles have finally converged with the purchasing of real estate The PHX Waymo geofence is my home selection boundary

Topics we should be teaching by 3rd grade but don’t: Nutrition Financial literacy Negotiation Entrepreneurship 1 Foreign language

🚨 Autonocast 351: Feisty Thanksgiving Discussion Sleepy safety drivers, scaling robotaxis, Alex thanks the Autonocast party sponsors, Ed thanks Elon for giving him something to complain about, and Kirsten thanks us for letting her be the adult in the room. Ep link in thread

LA, 1984. Between Blue Thunder, Knight Rider, Street Hawk, Manimal & Automan it’s a miracle a single criminal was left alive.

🚨 Autonocast #350: How To Fix The SAE Levels w/Bryant Walker Smith When is self-driving not self-driving? How do the words we use for autonomous vehicles affect safety? Smith talks about how the SAE levels came to be, and his latest paper "Self-Driving Means Self-Driving." Ep link in thread

Aside from the poor judgement that led Jeep to deploy this in-car… The ad itself is terribly designed. As. In. Zero. Design. Imagine having all that screen real estate… And this is what someone said was “good enough.”

Remember the Fanch.

🚨 Autonocast 349: How To Make AI Useful w/MIT's Bryce Reimer How to cut through the AI hype? What is the best application of AI in human driving? Reimer is one of the Top 3 BS sniffers on earth, and alone in having a realistic vision of what AI can actually do. www.autonocast.com/blog/2025/11...

🚨 Autonocast 348 is live! Will Rivian bike spinoff Also become the Tesla Model S of bikes? Why is it called Also? Why did a Tesla see ghosts in a cemetery? How will Tesla handle all the HW3 owners whose cars may never be driverless? Does Ed's BMW "Clownshoe" ZM3 redeem him? Link in thread…

Tesla FSD 14 is nice but it still tries to enter HOV lanes despite “use HOV lanes” being set to OFF.

AGI is imminent but I still get AI cold outreach asking if I would ever consider writing a book. A 2-second Google search yields 👇🏼

In a world of indistinguishable, low-mile supercars, uniqueness is everything. Who will buy THE OG MERC AMG which came in 2nd on the 1979 Cannonball Run? 🔥🇺🇸📈🏁 bringatrailer.com/listing/1978...

The Autonocast CES 2026 Party Waitlist is open: www.autonocastparty.com

If you don't know what this is you are NGMI

I will be interviewing Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana on Monday at @techcrunch.com Disrupt 2025 .... Have any question for her? Drop them here. Also, on Tuesday @seanokane.bsky.social has two great interviews scheduled: Slate CEO Chris Barman and Wayve CEO Alex Kendall

Sudden artillery experts on 🔥 today

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/...