Are they already banned from using cars? Can't read the article, but it would be a logical assumption :).

Poor engineers & managers at Palantir, Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle, Tesla, .... compensation, status, control are hard to give up. Also, let's all remember that the missions of most of these companies aren't all that ethical to begin with.

Our research is not neutral if only because we depend on funding. That's distributed politically by governments or "selfishly" by corporations. Conditions often include industry in-kind which favors big corporations. Even topic choices and research areas are not neutral. www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...

Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

How do we square that circle?

Reminds me of when someone destroys your kid's snowman by next morning...

There's always money for garbage pursuits.

They hit a child next to a school and claim that this was actually service to society because had someone else been driving, the consequences could've been worse? Great choice of baseline... With this reasoning, Waymo must also want credit for not shooting anyone around that school.

Meanwhile in Sweden... Nothing.

Well, that said, it might actually be problematic if some are more visible than others. Animals, kids, ... Hi viz people make normally dressed people less expected and relatively less visible. Visibility arms race doesn't sound helpful. No good research on it either, AFAIK.

I like how the pervasive LinkedIn "ex-Palantir" brag might actually become a career stain, finally.

Kids are alright. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yKS...

I'm just wondering. How is the US going to have elections when people are afraid to even go to work?

Now, more than ever, might be a good time to make the switch. Esp if you live in the US...

If this is what they do to white American citizens in front of everyone, imagine what happens to non-white people behind closed doors.

At least we avoid the risk of recognizing the inadequate US car industry standards. [1] [1] etsc.eu/accepting-us... www.cnbc.com/2026/01/21/e...

When I feel this unconstrained by facts and reality, please use my savings and place me in a care home of your choice. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dSv...

There can't be 20,237 museums of fascism that need them in their exhibitions. So who is still buying these traffic unsafe symbols of the wrong in the world?

“Before robotaxis are welcomed at all, public transportation services must be so good that robotaxis will not delay them or divert passengers from them. By this standard, Toronto ... should not be welcoming large deployments of robotaxis any time soon.” www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

China is going to have better information on EU passenger car transport patterns than anyone in the EU.

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

Let the digging continue. Someone making such a statement from such a position just revealed their general attitude that probably resulted in corresponding actions. It's just a matter of finding those instances. irishcycle.com/2026/01/13/j...

Every time I ride my bike in town I get annoyed at the ongoing transport injustice. Many times I also get physically threatened or outright violated by drivers driving on bike paths, not stopping on crossings, etc. I just ride because I don't want to be part of the problem.

For non-German speakers: “Dear media, I can’t stand the headline "No agreement between the US and Denmark” any longer. If an armed man storms a bank, you don't run the headline: "Robber and cashier can't reach an agreement on money transfer." Stop framing imperial aggression as normal diplomacy.”

The government sits and watches as Heba dies. It's heartbreaking, horrible, almost impossible to compute. Didn't people vote in the hope (however forlorn) of ending the Tories' psychopathic mode of government? Yet on it goes, under Keir Starmer. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Or because one would have to have a functioning adult life set up without a car - path dependency away from a car. Meanwhile, here in Sweden kids can drive at 16 and we wonder how to get more people on bikes. Oh the irony.

The US administration is making sure this paper ages well. Slow as well as immediate car violence being on display a lot recently. Used and abused in all possible ways. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Another axis along which one can safely generalize is location. E.g. people here in the EU shouldn't think our immigration control is a gentle and humane process, just look at the Mediterranean. Different approach, but systematic violence nevertheless. Illegal immigrant is an insane concept.

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

The pattern is the same every time. The driver who almost hit you complains that you swear in front of their kids in the back seats. And if you don't, then you're obviously too calm to have been put in the danger you're claiming. They don't mean it to be an argument but a demonstration of power.

You can’t park on the sidewalk without driving on the sidewalk.

And when it happens to you the police refuse to investigate and trivialize the incident. Now a clearly manufactured version of it is being used as a valid reason to kill someone. Agree that lots of damage is being done by them using car weaponization argument.

I have a new op-ed in the Financial Times asking why, exactly, Europe wants robotaxis. Because I can’t figure it out. 🧵

I also wonder if AVs get a nicer/cautious treatment by other drivers, making them less likely to get involved in a crash. Skewing the figures further.

Especially, or with priority, bike paths that are already built roads/streets, just close them to cars. I.e. let's flip it and let everything be a "bike path" and allow 🙄 cars on some of them - after 1000 studies on impacts of cars on them.

Personal/privately owned EVs aren't "doing net good".

Driving software should be subject to similar standards as aviation software, at least. The scale of the deployment would justify it. In fact, operation is trusted to unskilled average Joes instead of professional pilots. That would slow the AV and auto-features insanity right down.

Should probably be on the agenda well below cars, especially in Australia...

The Swedish government commissioned the Transport Agency to investigate how a regulation for overtaking of cyclists by motor vehicles can be introduced. Good news - now we'll provide them with data and help them understand the importance of a full lane change. www.statskontoret.se/Statsliggare...

It's encouraging seeing the comments under this post. Of course AVs are not the answer to anything other than a tiny subproblem of the 100th problem on the priority list. Tech bros pretend to like efficiency and then offer you the most inefficient way to achieve fewer injuries (uncertain too).

How did Bluesky algorithm recommend this to me... "Driving to walk the dogs" FML

Maybe not the most important question right now, but quantifying Nobel Foundation's impact on the current developments will be interesting. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

I wonder what video was shown to the driver who put that cyclist in coma...

We won't make good progress if we keep being "not anti-car". The consequences of private car use are incompatible with a fair society. These declarations amount to: "I'm not anti-injustice". Designing private car use into our society, even if optional, is ethically problematic.

Nothing got worse for the drivers while the cyclists have to navigate a chicane and often still be obstructed by the driver of the 2nd car or a big truck or just distracted idiot drivers. This is dealing with cyclists subject to zero inconvenience to drivers. Still 2nd class citizens.

That's one way to cover the bad taste of finishing it with SRAM 😛. Here it's a combination of that and crazy sharp gravel that causes punctures regularly.

It's always been Microsoft's way of doing business: to bully their users and obstruct competition. Mandatory copilot and ads in the OS are hilarious. Just to name a couple of things their users must love.

Unsurprisingly, they haven't even touched on the topic of the "true cost". Vehicle's lifetime cost is shared almost 1:1 between the owner and the rest of the society (for smaller cars). [1] [1] www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... www.autoblog.com/news/we-now-...

Linux has been easy to live with for the last decade or more. And open source is quickly becoming the only safe non-AI option - who would trust MS to respect "toggle off" on copilot? There's no way anyone is going back to Win after swapping in 2025.

Street safety is *not* a shared responsibility. Rather, it's a responsibility borne by those who have the greatest power to make streets safer: Car companies, policymakers, and road designers. Stop shifting blame on those walking, biking, and driving. www.kqed.org/news/1206717...