News Republisher

Scouring the news for interesting articles on robotaxis.

Joined: 12/29/2023
Articles: 231

Disability, News, Safety

KRON4 – Amazon deploys robots to roam SF’s Market Street

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08/19/24
Rev 08/20/24

KRON4 reports that AWS is illegally putting robots on the sidewalks of Market Street in San Francisco. And they are solely for advertising, which is even more reprehensible.

$$$, News, Waymo

Financial Times – How Big Tech is quietly trying to reshape how pollution is reported

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08/14/24
Rev 08/20/24

Financial Times reports on how the emissions from Big Tech are growing rapidly, and how their "carbon offsets" are allowing them to hide their true emissions.

News, Waymo

Jalopnik – Waymo Innovates New Ways To Annoy Even Non-Drivers: Constant Nighttime Honking

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08/12/24

Jalopnik reports on how Waymo has managed to annoy people just trying to sleep - because they keep on honking at each other!

News, Safety, Waymo

TechCrunch – Waymo to begin testing driverless robotaxis on San Francisco freeways

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08/12/24

TechCrunch reports that Waymo is about to test their autonomous vehicles, without safety drivers, on San Francisco Bay Area freeways.

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Bloomberg – Elon Musk’s Delayed Tesla Robotaxis Are a Dangerous Diversion

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08/8/24

Bloomberg reports on how the vaporware robotaxi demo originally schedules for August 8th did of course not happen. Plus the whole robotaxi concept appears to simply be a diversion to boost up Tesla stock prices. And it has worked! Meanwhile, a motorcyclist was killed by a Tesla driver using FSD.

News, Safety, Waymo

SF Standard – Waymo ride runs into high-speed sideshow, is saved by ‘grace of the Gods’

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08/5/24

SF Standard reports that a Waymo drove into an intersection that was occupied by a driver doing donuts. The Waymo missed a collision by only one foot. Key is that Waymos still are not able to handle unexpected situations.