Autonomously driving like a self-centered jerk. #Waymo pulls into the intersection to stop at a red light, blocking anyone from proceeding up the side street needlessly. #AutonomousVehicles #CAPUC #CADMV #SanFrancisco Apparently these systems are being designed to drive like the worst among us.

Cal PUC: We need to remove state incentives to rooftop solar because it's causing rates to rise and that's unfair to poor people who can't afford to install solar.

Also Cal PUC: We're letting PG&E raise rates $400/yr on average to pay for grid upgrades even though we let them not upgrade their grid for decades and send the money back to shareholders.

Me to wife: I really hate the PUC sometimes. Mostly when I think about them.

#California #SolarPower #PUC #CAPUC

Official misconduct in gas markets gouging consumers i.e #RegulatoryCapture at the #CaPUC: Spot market #transactions in #NaturalGas are shielded from #PublicScrutiny. Comparable #electricity #transactions, by contrast, were made #public after #Enron traders took advantage of #deregulation to loot California. Now every electricity trade on the spot market is published, deterring such #misconduct.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-03-13/natural-gas-price-socalgas

How SoCalGas' soaring prices are enabled by secrecy

California's natural gas and gasoline are both traded on opaque wholesale markets. The Legislature and FERC should make them more transparent to deter gouging.

Los Angeles Times