Author of Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors. Co-host @TheAutonocast. Not sure how much more mobility innovation I can take. YMMV.
Joined November 2011
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E.W. Niedermeyer retweeted
New pod dropped! @AlexRoy144 @kirstenkorosec and @Tweetermeyer chat about mounting AV skepticism and the UAW's resurgence.
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E.W. Niedermeyer retweeted
New interview with @Tweetermeyer about SF’s landmark ruling to allow @Waymo and @Cruise to operate 24/7—or why urbanists should learn to stop worrying and love robotaxis.
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E.W. Niedermeyer retweeted
Based on studies "the people that report being the most against Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) also self report that they know the least about how they work" - @Tweetermeyer
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New episode now live: with @AlexRoy144 and @kirstenkorosec sweltering in the Arizona heat (and @Tweetermeyer staying smugly cool in Oregon), the gang discusses a wide variety of hot mobility tech topics, from EV preconditioning to charging policy.
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New episode now live: @kirstenkorosec and @Tweetermeyer sat down with Dr Matt Markel of @spartanradar to discuss the evolution of the radar space, the use cases that are driving the sector, and much more.
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E.W. Niedermeyer retweeted
New blog post: last Friday Rafaela Vasquez pled guilty to endangerment, making her the first human to be held criminally responsible for a death caused by an autonomous vehicle. Needless to say, this is a troubling development.
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E.W. Niedermeyer retweeted
"...by humans doing predictably human things with predictably human results."
"Uber was setting up Vasquez for failure..."
"...psychologists have understood for more than a century that humans are unable to maintain attention for long if a task is too repetitive and boring."
New blog post: last Friday Rafaela Vasquez pled guilty to endangerment, making her the first human to be held criminally responsible for a death caused by an autonomous vehicle. Needless to say, this is a troubling development.
niedermeyer.io/2023/08/01/r...
E.W. Niedermeyer retweeted
Thank you.
I'd like to highlight my fav part:
"Like Large Language Models, driving automation is a technology that draws us into a fantasy, thinking a vehicle “can drive itself” after a few minutes of plausible performance."
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New blog post: last Friday Rafaela Vasquez pled guilty to endangerment, making her the first human to be held criminally responsible for a death caused by an autonomous vehicle. Needless to say, this is a troubling development.
niedermeyer.io/2023/08/01/r...
E.W. Niedermeyer retweeted
New, by me: Tesla's newly-uncovered range deception is just the tip of the iceberg in a decade-long ruse to exploit our car-brained desire for a fleet decarb solution that requires no actual change.
Elon Musk sold drivers on the myth that they could save the planet without changing their own habits. All they had to do was pay him. slate.trib.al/Y0qBEiZ
E.W. Niedermeyer retweeted
"The big lie at the heart of Tesla’s big-battery approach is that EVs can directly replace gas cars without any real behavioral change on the part of consumers."
E.W. Niedermeyer retweeted
Really sharp from @Tweetermeyer on the ruse Tesla pulled, and why drivers were easy marks for it. slate.com/technology/2023/07… – at Washington, DC
E.W. Niedermeyer retweeted
New episode now live: @AlexRoy144, @kirstenkorosec and @Tweetermeyer scramble to catch up with the wave of mobility news over the last few weeks. Takes abound, on everything from AVs to EVs to micromobility. Don't miss this one!
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E.W. Niedermeyer retweeted
“No wonder these guys think the real story of Oppenheimer is just a cool guy, looking cool and working with other cool guys, while he invents something new and powerful (and therefore also cool).”
New blog post: I wrote about Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Andrej Karpathy's reactions to Oppenheimer, and their disturbing inability to understand the core of what the story is actually about at a very basic level
niedermeyer.io/2023/07/25/i-…
E.W. Niedermeyer retweeted
Was trying to paste from "Long ago," to the end but I ran out of characters
E.W. Niedermeyer retweeted
Life is cheap in America, part of an ongoing series
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E.W. Niedermeyer retweeted
About nothing in history has been more transformative than the automobile. Yet nothing would have bankrupted you more effectively than an investment in the auto industry.
Finance is the graveyard of first order reasoning.
(Robert is co-founder of #RWRI)
E.W. Niedermeyer retweeted
Not sure who needs to hear this but the most reputable accounts for information concerning the ongoing Russian coup attempt didn’t spend the last week hosting Twitter Spaces on the Titanic sub.
E.W. Niedermeyer retweeted
Great piece about the danger of letting innovation cut corners on safety & testing. I’m a big advocate of not blindly doing things the way they’ve always been done, but as Ed says here, that’s not a license to ignore *why* they’ve always been done that way
New blog post: We All Live In A Carbon Fiber Submarine niedermeyer.io/2023/06/23/we…
E.W. Niedermeyer retweeted
Good post by @Tweetermeyer on the erosion of safety protocols in exchange for old school hucksterism and how unfortunately you don’t have to pay $250,000 to live in this reality niedermeyer.io/2023/06/23/we…
E.W. Niedermeyer retweeted
Most people aren't aware of how quickly the robotaxi industry is advancing, and what that means for labor and urban transportation in the immediate term.
The biggest question about robotaxis is not whether they work, but what we should do about them.
technologyreview.com/2023/06…