e.w. niedermeyer: I can excuse the judicial overthrow of democracy, but I draw the line at Matt Yglesias takes on autonomous vehicles *removes clothing, runs outside, begins rioting* www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

I can excuse the judicial overthrow of democracy, but I draw the line at Matt Yglesias takes on autonomous vehicles *removes clothing, runs outside, begins rioting* www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The US Approach to Robotaxis Is Far Too Cautiouswww.bloomberg.com When it comes to autonomous vehicles, America requires a regulatory posture that errs on the side of innovation as a national priority, not a series of city-by-city special interest fights.

There is literally zero evidence that China's official embrace of autonomous vehicles has benefitted their development in any way besides censoring information that might negatively affect the public's view of the technology, which I will go out on a limb and say is something we should not emulate!

You can't just look at Waymo and say "see, they're doing it right, therefore there's no need for regulation." Regulation is for the bad actors, not the good ones, and there have been tons of them in the AV space. Do you not remember Uber killing someone in 2018? Cruise mangling someone LAST YEAR??

You can't say "there should be less regulation of driving automation technology" and then simply not even mention that Tesla has literally killed people in the name of a blatant fraud that has made Elon Musk one of the richest men alive. I mean you can, but nobody should take you seriously if you do

For all that Waymo has accomplished, there is still an incredibly long way to go. Notice no one is yet testing in Chicago, and the company still has an incredible number of backup human operators to monitor the vehicles.

yeah, the goofiest part of all of this is the idea that regulation has ever held back autonomous vehicles even once... it's just really hard and expensive and a good distance from economic viability, regulation has nothing to do with the technology failing to live up to its runaway hype

August 9, they will be running through school zones everywhere

Backup humans and a ridiculous amount of guardrails and mapping of the city. Could just build fuckin trains for less effort.

Most North American cities: scrape the asphalt off the trolley tracks, rehang the overhead power, buy some shiny new cars, and get on with it.

The classic “look at these people following the rules, guess we don’t need the rules anymore!”

How are these elite opinion columnists going to feel the Pulse of America without talking to their various drivers?

ASKING THE REAL QUESTIONS!

Oh dear, life without more Thomas Friedman "cab drivers as the fount of perspective and folk wisdom abroad" pieces. The tragedy cannot be captured in words.

“Some countries have different workplace fire safety laws and that’s OK”

he literally says the US policy should "err on the side of innovation," and it's like INSTEAD OF WHAT MATT?? INSTEAD OF NOT KILLING PEOPLE YOU MEAN?

Great let's make Matt's neighborhood the training ground and see how that goes

I’m a YIMBY - Yes In Matt’s Back Yard

No?

I’m sorry, collateral damage

Innovative means of killing your employees through gross negligence

Is this the same Matt Yglesias that is pro-sweatshop, presumably because it innovates within a job market by creating a (dangerous, deadly, absurdly underpaid) opportunity that hadn't previously been there?

I’m fairly convinced you could easily run a long con on Matt and just bilk him for all he’s got. Especially if the spokesperson has once said some mean things about the unhoused

I suppose it's nice that Yglesias has improved over the last decade: instead of saying it's good and right for people working in factories overseas to die from lax safety regulation he now thinks it's good and right for *everyone* to die from lax safety regulation.

Workplace Safety and the Gilded Age Theory of Risk - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com Matt Yglesias had an odd response to my post yesterday calling for American corporations to be held to American labor standards no matter where in the world they site their plants or whether they subc...

needs less regulation!

Matty has always been, uh, the least intellectually accomplished of his class which includes some outright idiots. Never liked his work.

I swear it feels like his entire livelihood is now based on liberal hate clicks and conservative gawkers.

theyre already allowed to just let their robot cars goof around in public streets and kill people wtf does he want

Oh wow, the blagger in-chief doing a drive by on a subject you're an expert on. My commiserations during this difficult time.

I mean, we should never allow dead pedestrians to stop the transition to automated driving, amiright?

fuck me he's stupendously hateable.

brt!

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