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John Voelcker

@johnvoelcker
9 posts
2026-02-27
For more than a year, CEO Elon Musk has repeatedly said #Tesla is months away from launching a driverless robotaxi service in California ... once state regulators give their blessing.  —  Tesla did exactly nothing to secure that approval in 2025.  —  Paging @niedermeyer.online ... again ...
2026-02-27 View on X
Reuters

California DMV records show Tesla has logged zero autonomous test miles on the state's roads since 2019, despite Musk's claims of an imminent CA robotaxi launch

For more than a year, Elon Musk has repeatedly said Tesla (TSLA.O) is months away from launching a driverless robotaxi service in California …

2026-01-23
After 6 yrs of #Tesla claims, a major milestone: limited launch of #robotaxi rides in Austin without human safety drivers.  —  BUT: TX has near-zero regulation for this tech, so transparency will be near-zero.  —  We'll have to use 1st-hand accounts, any police reports + crowdsourced efforts. …
2026-01-23 View on X
TechCrunch

Elon Musk says Tesla launched robotaxi rides in Austin with no human safety driver; Tesla's AI lead says Tesla is “starting with a few unsupervised vehicles”

Tesla is offering passengers robotaxi rides in Austin without a human safety driver in the front seat.

2025-03-01
So @microsoft.com is killing off #Skype to force all of us to adopt #Teams, possibly the least reliable, glitchiest + most annoying of the half-dozen video-conferencing utilities I use for day-to-day work.  —  FUCK no.  —  Signal, here I come.  And, no, not WhatsApp either.  Telegram ??
2025-03-01 View on X
TechCrunch

Microsoft says it will shut down Skype on May 5 and directs users to migrate all their contacts and chat data to Teams; Skype had 36M+ DAUs in 2023

Microsoft has announced it is discontinuing … Thomas Stevenson / The Post Millennial : Microsoft to shut down Skype in two months, company says switch to Teams David Phelan / Forbe...

2024-06-19
An AI-generated story using @Forbes' original reporting without appropriate credit led to an AI-generated podcast ... and an AI-generated YouTube video that “outranks all Forbes content on this topic within Google search.” Buy popcorn. Or weep. No, both. https://www.axios.com/...
2024-06-19 View on X
Axios

Forbes demands Perplexity not infringe on Forbes IP and drop Forbes-sourced articles; Perplexity-made content remains without attribution, including on YouTube

Sara Fischer / Axios : X: @johnvoelcker See also Mediagazer X: @johnvoelcker : An AI-generated story using @Forbes' original reporting without appropriate credit led to an AI-gene...

2023-12-25
Oh FFS. Not a good look, GM. First you can't produce the Ultium vehicles, allegedly due to inability to get the module-stuffers to work ... and then once they do launch, sorta, more than one reviewer finds fatal software issues with the Blazer #EV. Ooofff. https://www.edmunds.com/...
2023-12-25 View on X
TechCrunch

GM pauses Chevy Blazer EV sales as it works to fix software problems, including the infotainment screen going blank, which affect a “limited number” of vehicles

I've yet to read as damning an automotive review … Murtada : And they'll start to outsource development all over again........  Ahem, Ahem, cough cough.  Two letter company who tri...

2023-04-02
I understand GM's reasoning for this, but question whether it will stand. Google Maps is presently lousy for useful #EV charging station info, but I have to think a huge number of GM buyers use these features. It could well keep me from buying a GM EV. https://www.reuters.com/...
2023-04-02 View on X
The Verge

GM plans to drop Apple CarPlay and Android Auto support in future EVs, using a Google infotainment system to capture more data and inform subscription launches

otherwise, it's hard to imagine why GM would take such a radical step & risk alienating consumers by completely ditching Apple CarPlay GM plans to phase out Apple CarPlay in EVs, w...

2023-04-01
I understand GM's reasoning for this, but question whether it will stand. Google Maps is presently lousy for useful #EV charging station info, but I have to think a huge number of GM buyers use these features. It could well keep me from buying a GM EV. https://www.reuters.com/...
2023-04-01 View on X
The Verge

GM plans to drop Apple CarPlay and Android Auto support in future EVs, using a Google infotainment system to capture more data and inform subscription launches

General Motors' electric future doesn't include Apple CarPlay or Android Auto.  —  The automaker's upcoming lineup …

2023-03-02
The CEO of brain implant company Neuralink says it will make the paralyzed walk, the blind see + turn people into cyborgs. A @Reuters report shows the firm still struggles to secure clinical-trial approval for a modest goal: helping disabled people type. https://www.reuters.com/...
2023-03-02 View on X
Reuters

Sources: the FDA rejected Neuralink's clinical trial application, citing dozens of issues to fix before human testing, like the device's removal and its battery

Musk has said his brain implant company, Neuralink, will make the paralyzed walk, the blind see and eventually turn people into cyborgs.

2022-11-08
“Many of Twitter's core issues just can't be reduced to black and white. They are gray AF.” A thread from someone who suggests he knows Elon better than 99% of the people who weigh in on Musk matters, me included. Read it. https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-08 View on X
Platformer

Sources: Elon Musk pitched charging most or all Twitter users for a subscription; internal estimates show Blue could lose the company ~$6/user/month in the US

Will he go through with it?  PLUS: Botched layoffs, how the new Blue could lose money, and more