Restricting Russian starlink wasnt ever really a thing that SpaceX needed convincing of, it was Ukraine that needed to decide it wanted it, as it required a whitelist.

They hadn’t been getting buy in from their soldiers because a lot of dishes were donated and the soldiers were worried they’d lose their dish if they registered it.

Once Russia started putting them on drones that were harder to destroy because of it, push came to shove and a whitelist was authorized and SpaceX actioned it right away.

I guess they weren’t happy with Amazon claiming the largest polluting datacenter with its 7.65GW plans, and went for a 9.2GW natural gas plan. Who’s gonna go for 15?

Waymos got 220 million miles and 0 deaths so far. They’d be close to 3 by now going by human averages. I dont know far they’ll make it, but you know whenever it does happen, there will be a huge uproar.

I was just looking into this a bit more, “managed to get out appropriately” is potentially actually going through the bollard after it fucked up.

It broke the law going in there, but reversing through the intersection (crosswalk) to get out is also against the law in Austin and many many places.

I know a lot of people do it (and I think I’ve seen a Tesla do it before too) but if you’re stopped at an intersection and you fuck up and are slightly in the crosswalk, you’re in most places, not allowed to back up. If you back up, you could actually be cited for 2 infractions, one blocking the intersection, and then another for the backing up. (edit: and in this case, it’s just a matter of property damage if they go over it, and they’re plastic because they know people will hit them, which is also sad)

I really doubt the car was smart of enough to realize I’m not allowed to reverse, and i could safely drive over this though. I think something else in its decision making process happened with failures all over the place.

I can’t wait to see what the NHSTA report on this one says, hopefully there’s some meaningful info in it.

Maybe we’ll even hear it called home for help and a person drove it over? There was one report where a support person remotely drove it into a chain at slow speed.

Im not saying it should, and in this case and have clearly said what it did was wrong.

Im just trying to reason out how or why something like that may have happened, and at first bad map data seemed like it could be part of it wtf went wrong. (edit: even OP said they looked into it, implying they thought that might be a factor too!)

Road says go right. Oh shit its tight but I can make it. Im fucked. YOLO!!!

And yes, it shouldn’t have ignored the bicycle signage or the white line.

Have you never driven around a construction local traffic road only sign that gets placed in the middle of the road or blocking a lane? AVs need to be able to do weird things like this, but in the correct situations, which this was not.

It did take the obstacles into account though at first. It was going very slowly and managed to squeeze itself into that bad spot, before ultimately realizing it was stuck and deciding to go over them once it had gone too far (I would love to know how the fuck it decided to do that last part though)

What it didn’t take into account from the start was the white line or bike lane sign, but those first bollards on their own it made it past.

If it had bad navigation data, that could have conceivably played a part, but bad map data seems less likely given there’s an image of that intersection from 2024.

Everything about this was still very bad obviously, but even if it wasn’t the case here, bad map data could get you into a bad situation like that if you can drive between the initial bollards.

Definitely no part about protecting jobs, definitely none.

State Sen. Joe Vitale, D-Middlesex, said he’s against this bill because the industry would “eliminate jobs for no other reason than to save a few bucks” and full-service gas would become more expensive.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220629121415/https://www.nj.com/politics/2022/03/njs-new-pump-your-own-gas-bill-could-be-dead-senate-president-scutari-says-he-opposes-it.html

As a coalition of organized labor, immigrant rights, and disability community advocates, we are coming together to oppose these proposed changes to New Jersey’s unique fueling rules because it will eliminate gas station attendant jobs that working families of diverse backgrounds depend on. While few to none of these workers are unionized, the New Jersey State AFL-CIO seeks to protect all jobs throughout New Jersey. Additionally, eliminating these jobs would be painful for vulnerable populations such as people with disabilities, the elderly and people with children, who rely on attendants to help them gas up. This bill would hurt consumers and provide little in return.

https://njaflcio.org/corporate-greed-comes-to-your-local-gas-station-what-you-dont-know-about-the-pump-your-own-gas-bill/

Companies will always try to get the most money out of you sure, but if I hop in a Uber and it says it’s $20.00, it’s going to be $20.00. Is that $20 a rip off, quite possibly, but I know that upfront, unlike a random driver trying to scam me and I don’t know until the end.

Oh wow, that’s cool. I didn’t know they had date stamps on it like that. Definitely more than enough time to have updated the maps, especially since I believe Tesla uses data from google for navigation.

I think that would be less likely. They’ll see that the threat can be neutered via Ukraine and turn to them rather than simply wait it out which would result in a higher likelyhood of another attempt.

I wonder if it might also include outdated maps and this is newer infrastructure?

Still not an excuse, it should have seen it and not crossed the white line, but maybe it had conflicting info and chose wrong?

Jobs are always going to be replaced by new technology and falling back to omg the jobs, as a means to prevent technology from advancing isnt the right way to think about things.

Maybe you should move to NJ so someone can pump your gas for you, or only buy from farms that hand pick everything.

Ive been in so many taxis driven by humans and feared for my saftey. People have been assaulted by drivers. The AVs can see all around them and will ultimately be definitively safer than a human can ever be. People are terrible drivers as seen by the immense death (1.16 million people in 2025) and destruction we cause behind the wheel.

Does anyone actually have the perfect AV right now? No. But they will figure it out.

Edit: clarity, but also dont forget taxi drivers who scam people by taking longer routes, ive also had my share of having to call them out at times when they think im a tourist.

If he does send a few hundred to steal some land, and gets pushed out, its not simply a matter of small price to pay, it could potentially change the entire landscape of the Ukraine war by changing how other countries support them. Its a pretty big gamble that they’ll do nothing.

I read in one of the articles on this, there are no more avenues to reverse this now. Its final.

There’s still other things like the 80mil damages case, but this one is now done.

The 7.65GW datacenter Amazon wants to make, would need about 155,000 acres to have a 4x provisioned solar array if they wanted to operate it all day off solar based of the US’s largest solar farm. That doesnt account for land space for storage. Also a 4x over provision probably isnt truly enough for something like this to reliably operate off solar only.

Itd be great to make some solar though for daytime hours even if trying to store the ridiculous amount of power required is its own insane problem and not worth it.

This is the first step to reaching the window. The climb takes a little bit.

But you can season the raw one however you want.

I assume someone like this saying this will probably be found on the ground below a window in the near future now?

Probably shouldn’t be run by them i agree, but they could fund it and go into some agreement to purchase its power.

At this scale everything is bonkers. The hoover damn is 2GW.

That severely limits where you can place it, probably more than solar. Now you need all that extra water, and height differential that can be at that scale.

Its just that its a lot. Like 8.5% of the entire Texas ERCOT grid at peak during its last peak in August.