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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Going Great

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Inspired by the amazing @web3isgoinggreat.com, this account will document carbrains infected by slopware. Urban traffic is a human conversation, not a computer protocol. Slopware Gonna Slop™ Insane in the car brain.

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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Going Great @level4isgoinggreat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Kirkland family sues Tesla, says autopilot surged through red light violently enough to burst tires The lawsuit says the Tesla sped through a red light, burst its tires and hit a curb while the driver was unable to stop it. www.king5.com/article/mone...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
"but who will protect Jews?" To be clear, still not Israel!!!!!!!!!!!
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Israel freezes aliyah for two Jews over activism protecting Palestinians
In both cases, the protective-presence activists, who did not know each other, had their passports photographed by a soldier or settler. These are the first known cases in which Israeli authorities ap...
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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Going Great @level4isgoinggreat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Surrendering to a massive scofflaw-as-a-service attack.
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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Going Great @level4isgoinggreat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Going Great @level4isgoinggreat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Jury awards $10.3M to Waymo worker fired after street takeover A Los Angeles federal jury awarded $10.3M...to a former Waymo roadside assistant who said he was fired after reporting that company-mandated GPS directions led him into a downtown street takeover. www.dailyjournal.com/article/3946...
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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Going Great @level4isgoinggreat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ah this must be a definition of "autonomous" with which I am not familiar. Or perhaps we have decided that the only thing which could make AI data centers more of an environmental disaster would be to let them drive cars. www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20...
If you've ever wondered whether a generative AI model can drive a car, wonder no more: It can be done, at great expense and very slowly, so long as it can maintain an internet connection.
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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Going Great @level4isgoinggreat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Your reminder that a 50-year-old mass transit tech invented by Disney is at least one order of magnitude more reliable than Waymo or any AV, which are just a couple decades younger. boingboing.net/2026/09/24/d...
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Disney built a subway inside Houston's airport
Disney once pitched cities on PeopleMovers. Houston's airport was the only customer, and its subway still runs today.
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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Going Great @level4isgoinggreat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Waymo conspiracy theorists: Their cars are remotely driven from the Philippines! Zoox conspiracy theorists: hold my beer
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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Going Great @level4isgoinggreat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"there does always need to be an operator on standby just in case there's an issue." Huh, even the makers of Zamboni Roombas realize safety drivers are a requirement.
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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Going Great @level4isgoinggreat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Good thing it's not a Waymo or it would just stall and refuse to enter the rink. www.denver7.com/news/local-n...
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The first autonomous ice resurfacer in the entire country is in the South Metro
Denver7's South Metro Reporter Danielle Kreutter gets a behind the scenes look at the latest technology for ice rinks.
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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Going Great @level4isgoinggreat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
what a surprise It’s Looking Like Tesla’s Cybercab Might Actually Be Illegal to Sell The government is demanding that Tesla go under oath. By Victor Tangermann futurism.com/advanced-tra...
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It's Looking Like Tesla's Cybercab Might Actually Be Illegal to Sell
Regulators filed a "Special Order" requiring Tesla to prove under oath that its Cybercabs meet federal safety standards.
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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Going Great @level4isgoinggreat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
ummm
A pair of notifications that IEEE Spectrum liked two of my posts, one highly critical and one mocking, of a fawning fanboy profile of Rivian in their publication. 🤷
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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Going Great @level4isgoinggreat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Police records show how Waymo robotaxis struggled on San Antonio streets Before it shut down service in April, officers were called to at least 50 incidents across the city. By Brandon Lingle www.expressnews.com/business/art...
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Driverless Waymos ran into plenty of human problems on S.A. streets
San Antonio police responded to at least 50 incidents involving Waymo robotaxis over 10 months before the company shut down passenger service in April.
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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Going Great @level4isgoinggreat.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Verne went driverless in Zagreb ten days after its EU project ended Europe's first passenger rides with nobody in the driver's seat run on a Chinese Arcfox with Pony.ai software, not the Croatian pod that €179.5 million of recovery money was meant to build. www.autonext.co/news/verne-d...
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Verne went driverless in Zagreb ten days after its EU project ended
Zagreb beat Munich and London to an empty driver's seat. The car is a Chinese Arcfox, the software is Pony.ai's, and the Croatian pod the EU funded has 60 prototypes and no passengers.
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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Going Great @level4isgoinggreat.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The passive voice in the reporting is doing heavy lifting: "Waymo employees became aware of a firearm in one of the company’s driverless cars" How did that happen? Do interior cameras look for firearms? How long did it take? Did police meet the vehicle after it was stopped? What was the timeline?
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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Going Great @level4isgoinggreat.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
ah, do you think they can interpret this gesture? www.newswise.com/articles/aud...
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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Going Great @level4isgoinggreat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
You know that clankers are covered under Texas's "Stand Your Ground" principle and will stay put when challenged.
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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Going Great @level4isgoinggreat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
No idea if this is true, eagerly awaiting reports
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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Going Great @level4isgoinggreat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
maybe if waymos had bumper stickers like those "please be patient, student driver" ones
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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Going Great @level4isgoinggreat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Self driving is only good at self-promotion. AV's globally in the last two decades have cumulatively driven the vehicle-miles that USA residents drove in the first hour of this past weekend. We don't have anywhere near reliable data, ...
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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Going Great @level4isgoinggreat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
That boot must taste great spectrum.ieee.org/are-self-dri...
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Cleaner Crash Data Could Prove That Human Drivers Are the Risky Ones
Self-driving tech could prevent 580,000 deaths every year
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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Going Great @level4isgoinggreat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Old enough to remember that over a generation ago "self-parking" was as "solved" as Ulrich claims Level 4 autonomy is. This, of course, is why you see self-parking cars everywhere.🙄 Rivian is investing tens of billions in Level 4 as it bleeds investors' cash. spectrum.ieee.org/rivian-self-...
Robotaxis currently roaming the U.S., China, and the Middle East have proved that driverless, Level 4 autonomy is possible. These cars operate in relatively tiny numbers in a couple of dozen cities, and within the specific constraints of commercial services.Scaringe, during our drive of his company's make-or-break R2 SUV at a Utah state park, says that showroom Rivians will start adopting some of its robotaxis' Level 4 capabilities no later than 2030, perhaps beginning with self-parking functions.
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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Going Great @level4isgoinggreat.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This also reads like a style guide for Waymo’s incident reports to the NHTSA. We don’t know if it’s Tesla’s, as they legally redact every entry under the “confidential business information” rule. I’m not kidding. Fred Lambert at Electrek *has to* connect the dots to local news reports of accidents.
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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Going Great @level4isgoinggreat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"Just before stranding me in the middle of six lanes of traffic and forcing me to call 911 to be escorted away."
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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Going Great @level4isgoinggreat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
waymo and tesla investing billions to beat this guy
"This is Louieland. You want America, go outside."
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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Going Great @level4isgoinggreat.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
The revolution will not be on autopilot.
The Tank Man, Tienamen Square, 1989The Muni Woman, giving the finger to a Waymo blocking the Muni tracks, SF, 2023
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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Going Great @level4isgoinggreat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
your reminder that robotaxis, waymos, and all AVs are rolling datacenters which rely on a huge footprint of hyperscale datacenters to keep running
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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Going Great @level4isgoinggreat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Want to understand why Waymo is unreliable? Look at the stats for Google Cloud someday. That's why only businesses without high reliability requirements use it. It'd pretty much be the punchline of the industry if Azure didn't exist.
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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Going Great @level4isgoinggreat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Want to understand why Waymo is unreliable? Look at the stats for Google Cloud someday. That's why only businesses without high reliability requirements use it. It'd pretty much be the punchline of the industry if Azure didn't exist.
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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Going Great @level4isgoinggreat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
your reminder that robotaxis, waymos, and all AVs are rolling datacenters which rely on a huge footprint of hyperscale datacenters to keep running
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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Going Great @level4isgoinggreat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
waymo and tesla investing billions to beat this guy
"This is Louieland. You want America, go outside."
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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Going Great @level4isgoinggreat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"Just before stranding me in the middle of six lanes of traffic and forcing me to call 911 to be escorted away."
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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Going Great @level4isgoinggreat.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Kids: We want trash collectors with AI cameras! Parents: We have trash collectors with AI cameras at home the ones at home: bayareacurrent.com/theres-a-lot...
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Cleaning Up Poop: The Human Labor Behind Waymo
Human feces isn’t even the nastiest thing they’ve found in the backseat.
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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Going Great @level4isgoinggreat.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This also reads like a style guide for Waymo’s incident reports to the NHTSA. We don’t know if it’s Tesla’s, as they legally redact every entry under the “confidential business information” rule. I’m not kidding. Fred Lambert at Electrek *has to* connect the dots to local news reports of accidents.
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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Going Great @level4isgoinggreat.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
We will find out in Oct or so if FSD or Autopilot was engaged, but Tesla will undoubtedly redact the NHTSA report.
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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Going Great @level4isgoinggreat.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Forty-five gold objects can dominate a news cycle if each one looks like tomorrow arrived early and forgot to install consent.
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pstimson.bsky.social @pstimson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I removed the wheel so every terrified passenger can experience helplessness as a premium mobility feature. conspiretimes.org/tesla-cybercab-st…
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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Going Great @level4isgoinggreat.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
500 basis points over benchmark seems pretty steep to me, but I'm not a Google genius. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... archive.is/ubxfp
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Waymo Taps Pimco, Blackstone for $3 Billion in First Debt Deal
Waymo is in the final stages of talks to raise debt for the first time, tapping lenders including Pacific Investment Management Co. for more than $3 billion as it looks to become the leading robotaxi ...
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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Going Great @level4isgoinggreat.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Kids: We want trash collectors with AI cameras! Parents: We have trash collectors with AI cameras at home the ones at home: bayareacurrent.com/theres-a-lot...
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Cleaning Up Poop: The Human Labor Behind Waymo
Human feces isn’t even the nastiest thing they’ve found in the backseat.
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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Cybercab planted the fork in Tesla not in front of it, unless their ADS tech is much much better than expected. Most likely another GM Cruise or Uber ATG style fork that takes a while to find the final flaw.
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Dirk Hagemann @dirkhagemann.substack.com · 03/09/2026
"… they are going to launch their robotaxi service again TODAY. Ignore the doubters. The car will be like sex: even a bad ride is still pretty good. After all, it’s the motion that counts. It‘s a multigenerational buying opportunity. The Cybercab has only two doors. One is still open. Are you in?“
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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Going Great @level4isgoinggreat.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Archive link for paywalled piece: archive.is/ZCv3K
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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Going Great @level4isgoinggreat.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
www.opb.org/stop-request...
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OPB Stop Requested
Stop Requested
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Level 4 Autonomous Driving Is Going Great @level4isgoinggreat.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The "last mile fantasy" and "rural transit fantasies" are real and they are destructive to forming good policy *now*. Want to learn about the poor state of rural mass transit? Listen to "Stop Requested" from Oregon Public Broadcasting. It has only gotten worse in the months since this aired. /
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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
As sympathetic as I am to the need for better rural transportation and traffic safety generally, ADS is not suited for it no matter how many academics add just enough sensors to a shuttle van to test what is in reality nothing more than hands-off ADAS, eg an OP source: adsforruralamerica.uiowa.edu
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ADS For Rural America | Driving Safety Research Institute | The University of Iowa
Automated Driving Systems (ADS) for Rural America is a project that will test the use of a custom vehicle with advanced automated technologies on rural roadways. Rural roads present unique challenges ...
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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Google/Waymo chose ridehail first bc it was the best fit for that stage of their tech, not for economic reasons. Uber's margins are worse than Google's. Waymo's R&D costs are increasing faster than their revenue. So are their loses. This remains much more of a ~failing R&D project than a business.
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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"the free market’s invisible hand keeps pushing robotaxis into crowded cities" It's been pushing taxi and related this way since there have been crowded cities w ~free markets, which is irrelevant anyway bc Waymo is only in the ridehail business bc their tech isn't good enough to sell.
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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"But robotaxis have far more potential to save lives in rural areas than in dense cities" is true for the ADAS in every ADS (Collision Avoidance System, Automatic Emergency Braking, Intelligent Speed Governor). ADAS tech should prevent ># of rural though >% of dense urban traffic fatalities.
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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Even misstates their ops & plans: "Robotaxi service is available in more than a dozen metro areas, but huge swaths of the country...are largely absent from robotaxi companies' expansion plans" Waymo serves ~30% of the Phoenix metro, their oldest, & less elsewhere. Waymo "plans" to run everywhere.
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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This article is thoroughly divorced from the reality of ADS/AV technology and the history of Waymo specifically. It all rests on what the author and some academics imagine "Autonomous technology could be" and not what it is. Disappointing speculative fiction from someone usually well-grounded.
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