2023-09-04
I have watched three SF Cruise driverless cars block traffic unnecessarily, and several more signal to turn onto Market only to continue straight. It seems like it got much worse in the last couple of weeks. [embedded post]
New York Times
The San Francisco Fire Department says two Cruise driverless taxis blocked an ambulance carrying a patient who later died at a hospital; Cruise denies any fault
Current “autonomous vehicles” are not actually autonomous. They still need backup drivers, just now they sit at computer screens instead of in the vehicles. — https://www.nytime...
2023-09-03
I have watched three SF Cruise driverless cars block traffic unnecessarily, and several more signal to turn onto Market only to continue straight. It seems like it got much worse in the last couple of weeks. [embedded post]
New York Times
The SF Fire Department says two Cruise driverless taxis blocked an ambulance carrying a patient who later died at a hospital; Cruise claims it was not at fault
Two Cruise taxis delayed an ambulance carrying a car accident victim to a hospital, a department report said. The company said it was not at fault.
2023-07-07
really nothing is more depressing than people giving their time and data (and their contacts' data) to Threads and the company that enables genocide and white supremacy, pushes teenagers to have low self-esteem and to harm themselves, and sells your personal data to corporations and bad actors [embedded post]
TechCrunch
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads now has over 30M signups, up from 10M within seven hours of launch, 5M in four hours, and 2M in two hours
what you need to know Tyler Lee / Phandroid : Twitter should be worried as Threads racks up 30 million sign ups in less than 24 hours Livemint : Elon Musk hits out at Zuckerberg as...
really nothing is more depressing than people giving their time and data (and their contacts' data) to Threads and the company that enables genocide and white supremacy, pushes teenagers to have low self-esteem and to harm themselves, and sells your personal data to corporations and bad actors [embedded post]
Semafor
Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads, saying Meta “engaged in systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter's trade secrets” and other IP
Twitter is threatening legal action against Meta over its new text-based “Twitter killer” platform …