Who’s driving Waymo’s self-driving cars? Sometimes, the police. | TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/25/waymo-robotaxi-roadside-assistance-emergency-first-responders/
> First responders have had to take control of Waymo vehicles and move them during emergency situations, including in at least two active crime scenes, TechCrunch found.
Driving: Motor Mouth: YouTube’s inane crash videos may teach future self-driving cars. “… the best learning tools aren’t, says [Professor Krzysztof] Czarnecki, the endless of hours of on-road driving recorded by existing autonomous automobiles like Google-cum-Waymo’s Open Dataset, but rather crowdsourced dashcam recordings on social media.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/25/motor-mouth-youtubes-inane-crash-videos-may-teach-future-self-driving-cars-driving/Weekly output: game development, Tesla Robotaxi, Bluetooth upgrades
I started this week in Austin for SXSW and will start the coming week by flying to Los Angeles, courtesy of an event United Airlines is hosting at LAX to show off tech upgrades coming to its fleet. The airline is covering my airfare and lodging, the reverse of the pattern that has prevailed over decades of my business travel.
3/17/2026: Crafting Global Games with Local Insight and Cultural Fusion, SXSW
I returned to SXSW after a year off when Nika Nour, a pal from D.C. tech-policy circles who’s now a senior vice president leading international business development at Savvy Games Group, asked if I could step in to moderate this panel. And then two of the other panelists got changed out less than a week in advance. Fortunately, everybody else on the panel (Nika, actor/producer/author Anjali Bhimani, and Six Foot chief marketing officer Manuel Delgado) was a practiced speaker and eased my job of leading a conversation about an industry that I haven’t covered that much lately.
3/19/2026: I Got Around SXSW in Tesla Robotaxis: The Rides Were Better Than the Buggy, Juvenile App, PCMag
I thought I should try Tesla’s self-driving-car taxi service while in Austin, but it took a day of unsuccessful attempts before I could book my first ride. And then the experience was surprisingly uneventful, with each of my five rides featuring a safety operator in the front passenger seat who didn’t do anything that I noticed.
3/19/2026: Get Ready: Bluetooth 6 and Other Advances Will Give Your Devices a Much Needed Upgrade, PCMag
PCMag elected to re-publish this post with some new text by me to highlight Bluetooth version numbers.
#ATX #AUS #Austin #autonomousVehicles #Bluetooth #Bluetooth60 #gameDevelopment #LAX #SavvyGamesGroup #selfDrivingCars #sxsw #TeslaRobotaxi #UA #United #UnitedAirlines #videoGames #Waymo
Driverless ‘robotaxis’ will be accepting fares in Britain’s biggest city by the end of next year. Can they deal with London’s medieval roads, hordes of pedestrians and errant ebikers? I got in the passenger seat to find out
https://winbuzzer.com/2026/03/17/nvidia-gtc-2026-uber-robotaxi-physical-ai-drive-hyperion-xcxwbn/
Nvidia Unveils Uber Robotaxi Plan, New AV Partners at GTC 2026
#NVIDIA #AI #AutonomousDriving #AutonomousVehicles #SelfDrivingCars #Uber #PhysicalAI #GTC2026 #DRIVEHyperion #Robotaxi #Robotics
The Tesla Influencers Leaving the ‘Cult’
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/the-tesla-influencers-leaving-the-cult/
How hard is it to leave a cult? I’ve seen a few videos of folks who left MAGA behind, but there’s another cult that’s hard to leave as well, and that’s the Tesla cult.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-tesla-influencers-leaving-the-cult/
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