Research Fellow @joinFAI; opinions mine not theirs | Working to make US transportation faster, cheaper, more reliable, & less safe | prev: Econ & CS @UChicago

Inside the Beltway, USA
Joined January 2022
I find it extremely funny that the leading opponent of funding BART complained two hours ago that BART was having problems because it was raining and then turns around and complains about the funding which is allocated to fixing the rain problem.
Oct 1, 2019: New @SFBART GM Powers out pushing a $100B tax measure for 2020 (incl. new transbay tube) right after Measure RR’s ~$3.5B gift to BART in 2016. Agency was losing riders and cash. Proof they planned more taxes before COVID. Expect another one in 2028 post-Measure RTM. abc7news.com/post/report-bar…
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"report coming soon" but like fr this time
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Is there like some kind of german word for when two people disagreeing with each other repeat the exact same set of words in service of their respective sides
What if we just abolished the field of law entirely and became Chinese or something idk how do we allow these people to have any modicum of influence over real life affairs
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What if we just abolished the field of law entirely and became Chinese or something idk how do we allow these people to have any modicum of influence over real life affairs
Man what the fuck are you talking about
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Man what the fuck are you talking about
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In California, to get environmental approval to build a train you must count bumblebees, one by one, by hand.
California hasn't built its bullet train because the state has required 130,000 pages of environmental reports, making absurd demands like: • counting bumblebees one by one • rebuilding woodrat stick huts • hiring specialized dogs to sniff lizard scat
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To close this off, here's the same data using the 4 Waymo categories, compared to Waymo and humans:
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Oh, very clever. Tesla is using a really strange definition of "injured"; in practice, Tesla's SGO data lists two events with injuries (thread)
Tesla now has a robotaxi safety page to match Waymo: tesla.com/robotaxi/safety Of course, no Robotaxi has been in a serious crash yet, so it makes for an excellent looking dashboard. But Tesla has driven just over 1% of Waymo's 271 million driverless miles.
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Tesla now has a robotaxi safety page to match Waymo: tesla.com/robotaxi/safety Of course, no Robotaxi has been in a serious crash yet, so it makes for an excellent looking dashboard. But Tesla has driven just over 1% of Waymo's 271 million driverless miles.
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I love how they just straight up included this in the screenshot
I have no words
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