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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 1h

The solution, as always, is more better surveillance, ie cameras/sensors w AI 'intruder detection' for every room, closet, etc.

Trust but trust AI to verify.

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 1h

Maybe too good at hunting. He learned to climb a blue spruce to kill the birds nesting there and brought mole body parts to the door. I found him w just the rear half of a squirrel in the bushes, growling. The yard became quieter and stiller.

"The Romans make a desert and call it peace." Tacitus

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 12h

WHFS: "And now we'll repeat that for those of you on drugs"

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 12h

Immigration and Cruelty Enforcement

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 12h

Similar to ~4 years ago when Waymo first operated and quite clumsily in San Francisco. Then it was
15th Ave just off Lake St

Teach one robot to annoy and the whole herd learns.

Prob a routing error & indifference.

www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco...

Dead-End SF Street Plagued With Confused Waymo Cars Trying To Turn Around 'Every 5 Minutes'

A normally quiet neighborhood in San Francisco is buzzing about a sudden explosion of traffic. Neighbors say their Richmond District dead-end street has suddenly become crowded with Waymo vehicles.

www.cbsnews.com

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 12h

Deja vu all over again. Someone living on a ~half-block long deadend street Waymo allegedly frequently & noisily turns around in (reverse beeps) at night wants everyone to put cones in the road to block them:

2nd Ave at Lake St, San Francisco

OP: reddit.NagyLebowski

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 14h

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · May 19

FWIW, both Waymo and Cruise invented at least 4 new human jobs to replace 1 human driver to compensate for the incompleteness and/or incompetence of their robots:

customer service to assist passengers
1st level robot assist, whisperer
2nd level robot assist, pusher/driver & coordinator
field rescue

John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 14h

OP: tiktok.ohjoyous1

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 14h

OP: tiktok.ohjoyous1

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 14h

When the Waymo robot (presumably) failed to MRC, it would've alerted telops which should've queued the customer support person heard in these videos and an "event response" person who, unseen & unheard, dealt w the robot. If ER fails to get the robot going, then field rescue.

OP: tiktok.ohjoyous1

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 14h

2 passengers were stuck in a Waymo robot that apparently pulled over for no good/apparent reason (prob a sw/AI failure to MRC & telops) for long enough to make the following 4 short/min videos, of which the first explains most of it. LA area, maybe Lake at Lincoln Blvd, Venice.

OP: tiktok.ohjoyous1

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 14h

Sure, or golden handcuffs. AI tech bro C-levels tend to be wealthier than their customer C-levels. They're selling opportunity to share in that apparent wealth to wannabe richer C-level customers, but their pitching vaporware and/or faulty demo-grade products. All in it together, until suddenly not.

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 15h

So would a cat I had that demoled so much he had to up his hunting to squirrels.

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 15h

AI chip makers fund their AI company customers by discounts, loans, and direct investments.

AI companies fund their customer by selling at a loss.

Both are buying momentum/revenue, which is not sustainable.

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 15h

When the best a CEO can say is "there's something real happening here" without explaining/showing "something" then speculation is what is really happening.

Companies funding customers hides their customers lack of real returns/ROI & cascades losses when the music stops.

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 4d

This is what happened in the dotcom and telecom bubbles, later cost ~$2 trillion (2002 dollars) and 500k jobs.

It has gotten much bigger inflation-adjusted and more sophisticated/complex/dangerous in structure. And it is all leveraged by the stock prices, so once it gets going wrong...Margin Call.

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 18h

When your National Guard tour is as a tourist.

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 19h

Yes, simplistic and naive. FWIW, Waymo robots have been lasting 4-5 yrs, ave ~12 hrs a day in ridehail service, and literally depend operationally & legally on a staff of hundreds of ppl w rare expertise bc they remain functionally incomplete replacements for human drivers.

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 7d

FWIW, based on this report, Waymo's robots have a MTBF (mean time between failures) on the scale of an ~hour. Without telops, nearly every Waymo robot they send out would fail needing field rescue before it needed a charge.

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · Aug 20

A few (~3-5) minutes per hour ~= 5-8% would be enormous and ~2x worse than Zoox and Cruise achieved or at least admitted, as none of this is reported to regulators or audited by any independent authority.

This is the only news in this co-CEO profile, AFAICT.

www.vanityfair.com/culture/stor...

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 23h

Waymo made an illegal left turn (fine and 1 point on license, unless the "driver" is an uncrewed robot which cannot be cited):

5th St onto Mission St, San Francisco

A No Left Turn except Bus intersection. Waymo has a depot on Mission ~2.5 blocks away in the direction of travel.

OP: x.saedmm34

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 23h

Yet another (61+) Wrong Way Waymo:

near Sky Harbor Airport, Tempe/Phoenix area

Note the robot's hazard lights are flashing throughout this short video.

OP: tiktok.anwararizona2

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 1d

Sure, as Uber ATG no longer exists and was sold off in 2020. Regardless of 2018 or 2025 or the 1990s, ~hourly human interventions continues to be the operational reality of this tech, even when constrained to the <1% of US where Waymo operates uncrewed.

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 1d

Per Waymo reportedly, their current (5th gen) robot's MTBF is in practice ~10-15 miles, ie ~once per hour at 10-15 mph ave speed.

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 7d

FWIW, based on this report, Waymo's robots have a MTBF (mean time between failures) on the scale of an ~hour. Without telops, nearly every Waymo robot they send out would fail needing field rescue before it needed a charge.

bsky.app/profile/anic...

John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · Aug 20

A few (~3-5) minutes per hour ~= 5-8% would be enormous and ~2x worse than Zoox and Cruise achieved or at least admitted, as none of this is reported to regulators or audited by any independent authority.

This is the only news in this co-CEO profile, AFAICT.

www.vanityfair.com/culture/stor...

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 1d

"the magic of autonomy" includes hundreds of 24x7 operations ppl in an unknown number of trench coats:

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 7d

FWIW, based on this report, Waymo's robots have a MTBF (mean time between failures) on the scale of an ~hour. Without telops, nearly every Waymo robot they send out would fail needing field rescue before it needed a charge.

bsky.app/profile/anic...

John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · Aug 20

A few (~3-5) minutes per hour ~= 5-8% would be enormous and ~2x worse than Zoox and Cruise achieved or at least admitted, as none of this is reported to regulators or audited by any independent authority.

This is the only news in this co-CEO profile, AFAICT.

www.vanityfair.com/culture/stor...

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 1d

Safety drivers not chatting with passengers is same as everyone else has done, inc Waymo and GM Cruise, AFAIK. And all have started their passenger service w safety drivers.

As soon as they removed safety drivers, SOTA Waymo has done this over and over and over again:

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · Jun 3

Yet another Waymo robot impeded emergency vehicles:

Bryant at 2nd, San Francisco

Safety drivers fix this in seconds. Waymo's never explained why their telops can't reliably.

You could lose your license for repeatedly doing this, but not Alphabet/Google/Waymo.

OP: tiktok.4evercontrarian

John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 1d

Kavanaugh Stops contain multitudes of civil rights violations.

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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 1d

Nevada calls <$250k "a reasonable penalty that will still serve to deter future non-compliance conduct.”

I'm guessing not.

Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 2d

Nevada state regulators have accused Elon Musk’s Boring Co. of digging without approval, releasing untreated water onto city streets and spilling muck from its trucks, according to a new document obtained by @citycastvegas.bsky.social and @propublica.org.

Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Accused of Nearly 800 Environmental Violations on Las Vegas Project

Nevada could’ve fined the company more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

www.propublica.org

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