Interested in autonomous vehicles, robotics, industrial automation etc. Also on Bluesky https://xitter.cf/t.co/RGghEDLnY8
Copenhagen, Denmark
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Christian Bering retweeted
Støt den danske Ukraine komité - vis det ikke bare er snak. MobilePay 924084. Hver eneste krone går direkte til det ukrainske forsvar. Og del dette tweet for at hjælpe. Til så mange som overhovedet muligt.
Christian Bering retweeted
Prediction: Trump and Elon will have a significant falling out before the 4-year term is over. There can only be one main character at a time.
Christian Bering retweeted
Places like Center Parcs are wild
You walk around and think:
“hmm,quite nice to have amenities”
…then you realise Britain has made visiting a miniature place with functional civic infrastructure a holiday destination
We pay to live like a Danish person for a week, basically
Christian Bering retweeted
Waymo having (slightly) positive economics per car is huge.
Main Street: Thank God Google’s search business is so profitable, it can forever subsidize my Waymo rides.
Wall Street: Waymo has positive unit economics in SF.
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JMP research report: Waymo has 63% cash contribution margins. The vehicle & sensor capex is large (~$150k/vehicle), so accounting for their depreciation, contribution margins are just slightly positive.
Today Waymo operates at just 35% utilization, vs Uber at 55% in NY. Waymo should achieve higher utilization than Uber over time. If Waymo operates at 55% utilization, that’s an incremental 58% revenue at high cash contribution margin. The IRRs on the upfront vehicle & sensor cost go from ~0% to 30%+.
There’s also an expectation the vehicles and sensors get more affordable. All of this ignores operating expenses (R&D, G&A, centralized mgmt), but suggests Waymo can profitably scale its fleet.
Christian Bering retweeted
This is legit insane. Still trying to wrap my head around where we're going to be in 18-24 months, and failing miserably.
Testing out @HeyGen_Official translation on French and German. I don’t speak either language so let me know if it sounds natural if you do.
I hope if you pay you can turn off the color correction.
It didn’t work on my phone so I had to upload on my pc.
app.heygen.com/guest/templat…
Christian Bering retweeted
This human driver “stuck” in an intersection stopped my AV from proceeding. These humans apparently get “bricked” when they get greedy and pull into an intersection they can’t exit.
Won’t someone do something about this???
Christian Bering retweeted
The autonomous vehicle luddites struggle to see how AVs will help public transit.
There's a whole class of transit user (old people with walkers, etc.) who struggle to walk more than a block to get to a MUNI stop.
"Paratransit" is the current solution for them.
Unfortunately it's inconvenient for the user and eyewateringly expensive for the user and the community.
Even with heavy subsidy, $5 per pickup, $3 a mile. Single driver, big van. 1-hour pickup windows. Reservations must be made at least 24 hours in advance. And the cost on the city side is more like $30 a trip.
Now imagine a fleet of Cruise Origin-style low step height cruising (heh) around, picking up grandma and taking her to the grocery store, the park, bingo, etc. At probably $5 a trip cost. That is, the city could cover the whole thing and save money.
Christian Bering retweeted
We have two companies operating fully autonomous ridehail networks in a major city, and there has been almost no media coverage and a collective yawn. The average American isn’t even aware that this is a reality. Perhaps it was over hyped in 2017, but opposite is true now.
Christian Bering retweeted
today, Amsterdam is a cyclist's paradise, but this wasn't always the case. During the last Ice Age it looked like many similar cities in northern Europe, with dangerous megafauna everywhere. Amsterdam shows us what's possible when we care about livability.
Christian Bering retweeted
Why can't my Nespresso machine auto re-order coffee capsules? Prime candidate for the internet of things methinks.
Christian Bering retweeted
Movember is all about turning blokes into sad, sober, simpering wrecks soc.li/wKlRxLJ <- YES
Christian Bering retweeted
Alan Bond: "we are at the DC3 stage..." (of spaceplanes) "...the large profits will be made in the first 20 or 30 years of the industry"
Christian Bering retweeted
People think I'm using my iPad to surf the internet. It's not even on. I'm just staring at myself. Killer app.
