In the “you reap what you sow” category, @waymo.bsky.social gets exactly what it deserves in this negative press www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-r... It didn’t need to be this way and Waymo (and others) need to embrace remote operations instead of hiding them

did you know there is no such thing as a self-driving car? ALL of these require humans to successfully operate. But there have been problems with these remote operators, read more here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

@anthropic.com laid the foundations for the current mess they are in by overhyping Claude apnews.com/article/anth...

Check out my new interview for the Driverless Digest podcast lnkd.in/eJFB3JDB And the paper I am referring to is here lnkd.in/eqfs6APN

Why does Waymo keep having problems in active crime scenes? Because their remote operations needs an overhaul. Lessons learned from the military are here: spectrum.ieee.org/military-dro...

Check out my time with Jason Alexander on his podcast Really? no Really? - he and Peter Tilden are shocked to find out about remote operators for self-driving cars and Howie Mandel makes a guest appearance to spar with me about Teslas... www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...

Time to boycott travel to all these countries, others include Jordan, Israel, Argentina, Pakistan, Turkey, Hungary, Armenia, Bulgaria, El Salvador, Indonesia, Kosovo, Albania, Mongolia, Morocco, Paraguay, and the United States.

Props to Rep Buddy Carter for his investigation request into whether Waymo's remote operators should operate from Philippines. His analysis is dead-on. buddycarter.house.gov/news/documen... Too bad the @governor.ca.gov and his DMV decided to support Waymo instead of doing the right thing

@democrats.org you are insane if you back any of the people who ran in 2024 -there are MANY far better new candidates - if you do not back moderate candidates, we will be right back where we started. This is not a time for social experimentation

People need to stop buying apple products and stop shopping at Amazon - send these bozos a financial message that supporters of fascist wanna-be kings do not get our business

I’m glad people are realizing AGI/ASI aren’t going to happen w/ LLMs but declarations that “world models” will solve this are also similarly misguided World models have been a thing for a long time & are critical for robots/embodied AI. We are making slow but sure progress but this is not a panacea

The @ushouseofreps.bsky.social Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing & Trade hearing next TUE on self-driving lacks commitment to federal regulations about remote operations. Should @waymo.bsky.social have remote ops in the Philippines when airline dispatchers must be US-based?

@tamu.bsky.social since you banned the teaching of Plato, I ban you from universities I will work with, including giving keynotes, which I have done many times. You are not a serious university

Great article by @davidzipper.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... Waymo’s recent issues likely stem from a shift away from traditional machine learning to end-to-end learning, currently there are no established best practices for hot to test this technology

I am finally back on & appreciate all the reporting by @lorak.bsky.social and @axios.com, plus many others who reached out to express their outrage. If tech companies cannot take criticism, especially for safety critical applications, sadly many more people will be seriously hurt or killed

My free speech has been censored by @linkedin.com because I was critical of an audit and I want to know if @waymo.bsky.social or @tuev.bsky.social or someone on their behalf has told LinkedIn to censor me and threatened them in someway (like removing sponsorship)?

Here is the original post and then the follow on one

Waymo, TUV-SUD and LinkedIn are big on suppressing free speech

@waymo.bsky.social and @tuev.bsky.social are trying to suppress my free speech on LinkedIn after I called out the failed audit that did not address power outages for remote operations of self-driving cars @aclu.org please help me, this is illegal and abusive

In a pathetic & desperate attempt for publicity, @anthropic claims that "model welfare" is a thing....https://www.anthropic.com/research/exploring-model-welfare Don't be fooled - their AI is just linear algebra on steroids, it knows nothing, cannnot reason or understand. This is a pure money grab

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@tylercowen.bsky.social is 100% wrong about achieving AGI marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo... This is a great example of people claiming to have expertise where they do not - these kind of uneducated claims only make the overhype much worse and are the perfect embodiment of slopaganda.

HW4 won't work either electrek.co/2025/04/14/t...

Heard on @wtopnews.bsky.social that Metro trains can’t reliably auto stop in the right place. This is VERY straightforward. This failure is either gross incompetence or willful slow rolling. Someone needs to be fired and competent engineers hired

All you have to do to beat a lie detector is continuously do deep breathing exercises throughout

I love @theonion.com

The DC U.S. District Court commanded DOGE to comply w/ citizen requests under the Freedom of Info. Act, which entitles citizens to access personal information held in any US government records system. Here is a fillable Privacy Act request form: s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ak-raskin/im... Flood DOGE

Self-driving systems have, up to now, operated in relatively robust settings due to their slow speeds. What happens when they take to the highway in the form of semi tractor trailers? landline.media/self-driving...

As another woman targeted by Musk, I feel for @valeriecosta.bsky.social The hidden silver lining for the @teslatakedown.com movement? The more of these cars off the road, the safer everyone is from all the magical thinking that Teslas are self-driving. By protesting you are, indeed, saving lives

@anthropic.com your recent statement that in 2 years, GenAI will achieve “Intellectual capabilities matching or exceeding that of Nobel Prize winners across most disciplines—including biology, computer science, mathematics, and engineering.” Is magical thinking & 100% not happening despite your hype

People need to ask their congressional representatives what’s up with DOGE & DHS. Their “let’s cut them all and let God sort it out” strategy seems to apply to everyone but ICE & CBP, where now corruption is likely surging since they seem to be on the DOGE mafia’s protected list.

In the “karma is a b&$/?!” world, car companies’ support of Trump has meant Musk has unprecedented access to their IP junkoyoshidaparis.substack.com/p/musk-and-d...

Musk is using Grok to assess all the federal workers emails about what they did last week, this is what Grok considers to be the "correct" answer

In related lawsuits, attorneys should ask for all the documents related to this including Grok prompts (both system level and interactive prompts), also any search/filter term & code DOGE will not be able to claim proprietary so all this will be public info and releasing it is the best defense

Thanks to the AT EASE! Veterans Magazine for the great feature article. We have never needed a focus on responsible AI more than we do right now with the public deployment of so much problematic AI atease-md.newsmemory.com p. 10 Just remember, LLMs & self-driving cars don't reason or understand

I stand with Ukraine.

Very big deal - German court finds Teslas are defective for phantom braking - there are many such cases reported in the NHTSA standing general order. This is very bad news for self-driving companies as well www.carscoops.com/2025/02/germ...

@forrealflygirl.bsky.social : Elon Musk recently announced that Tesla plans to debut its own robotaxi service in Austin this June. Cummings said she worries people will die inside and outside of any Tesla robotaxi deployed so soon, given the company's safety record. #Tesla #Waymo

Check out the @mashableofficial.bsky.social latest on the state of self-driving mashable.com/article/ever... Phantom braking is still a huge problem that companies will not be more transparent about

Awesome- the person responsible for the car with the most accidents on the road (and getting worse) put in charge of air traffic control - what’s concerning is that plane loads of dead people is not guaranteed to end this madness www.forbes.com/sites/steveb...

@gregabbottx.bsky.social this Tesla PR stunt is very dangerous. You need to ensure all pedestrians are cleared from this route - see my paper about Teslas and pedestrians here ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/7274857... Car A = Hyundai Sonata & Car B = Tesla Model Y

Our enemies are LOVING this idea, they won't even have to make a bomb-ladened airport road when the cybertruck does their work for them by forcing the American driver into a head-on collision ( even warning the driver in advance!) futurism.com/footage-cybe...

At Reagan National today where 67 people just died, my @americanair.bsky.social plane nearly took off with a door hanging open. Thank goodness another pilot in another plane spotted it right as we were about to takeoff. WTF @americanair.bsky.social - this is the best you can do?

Musk is quite the hypocrite given how he terrorized me

Briefing in DC this morning blames the army helicopter for flying in the path of the commercial jet, no survivors Just a quick reminder that ensuring a strong safety culture should not become a political football

Complacency & overconfidence by Tesla drivers on "Full Self Driving" is deadly for nearby motorcyclists . www.npr.org/2025/01/15/n... This is the 3rd motorcyclist death caused by a distracted Tesla driver I personally have investigated - this problem can & should be immediately addressed.

For all those hypsters trying to push the we-are-losing-the self-driving-war-to-China agenda, here is the real story thanks to Sophia Tung. www.youtube.com/watch?v=raSZ...

More problems with brittle AI-based computer vision, this study from IIHS shows just how at risk pedestrians are around autonomous vehicles www.iihs.org/news/detail/... Read more about the underlying causes here: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/107...