Absolutely right. To situate in terms of recent events, there have been three stages of trying to delay / influence the California CPUC robotaxi expansion approval vote:
1. Tried a politician scare campaign. Failed because it was too transparent it was an attempted distraction from their terrible public safety record.
2. Tried coning and disabling the vehicles. Failed because it was too transparently astroturfed, legal liability.
3. Now attempting leaks of cherry-picked vanity metrics so massaged they can’t fairly be called “statistics” to friendly anti-tech local media.
Will fail because national and international media no longer trust our local journalists, and will investigate independently.
The cars work. The incident data meets the standards set forth by the state of California.
Local politicians need to find another anti-tech boogeyman. This one is too vital to the revitalization of SF.
I am not talking my book, have zero stake here.
It’s just saddening to watch a nascent technology finally start working well and then get kneecapped by political games.
1. Tried a politician scare campaign. Failed because it was too transparent it was an attempted distraction from their terrible public safety record.
2. Tried coning and disabling the vehicles. Failed because it was too transparently astroturfed, legal liability.
3. Now attempting leaks of cherry-picked vanity metrics so massaged they can’t fairly be called “statistics” to friendly anti-tech local media.
Will fail because national and international media no longer trust our local journalists, and will investigate independently.
The cars work. The incident data meets the standards set forth by the state of California.
Local politicians need to find another anti-tech boogeyman. This one is too vital to the revitalization of SF.
I am not talking my book, have zero stake here.
It’s just saddening to watch a nascent technology finally start working well and then get kneecapped by political games.