At the moment, no outlets seem to have reported a motive for the attack.
Okay…
The California DMV suspended Waymo rival Cruise’s robotaxi operations after one of its cars struck and dragged a pedestrian last year, and prior to that, automated taxis had caused chaos in the city, blocking traffic or crashing into a fire truck. Just last week, a Waymo car struck a cyclist who had reportedly been following behind a truck turning across its path.
The pedestrian in that accident was struck by a human driver, hit and run, THEN they hit the Waymo, which did a pull-over maneuver. It did drag the victim (of the HUMAN) in error. It did not strike them at all.
In fact the actual real issue was the C-suite trying to cover it up, intead of being upfront with the DMV. THAT’S what got Waymo in trouble. All fired now, as expected, the shitheads.
It just makes no sense to have privately run utilities, and pretty much all US energy infrastructure problems can be traced back to it.
For people who don't understand, fundamentally how these work is they are guaranteed a certain rate of return on expenditures. The utilities are told that if they spend a dollar on approved activities, the public will give them back slightly more than a dollar as thanks.
The entire incentive structure is to just do big capital projects while minimizing any unpinned costs - which often includes things like labor and maintenance although I don't know about the specific case of Hawaii.
So there's no incentive to do serious maintenance. There's no incentive to save ratepayer cost.
There are frequent incentives for reliability in the form of penalties, all stick and no carrot, but if you think about this side of things at all you realize that it's not good enough because many of these utilities aren't reliable and that the entire principle of reliability penalties is admitting that market incentives aren't going to do the job so why are we using this entire market based approach in the first place.
Natural monopolies should not be private businesses, they should be democratically operated public institutions. End of story.
But of course all of these various utilities have grown so ponderous and huge that basically none of the states can afford to acquire them back into the government. We've all been damned by previous generations who didn't think things through.
Damn, imagine being ideologically enslaved to this doughy gasbag.
His spirit animal is a beanbag chair that has been farted on and stained with so much PBR, bleu cheese, and hot wing sauce that it’s now soaking in alley juices by the dumpster behind a frat house.
It helps her that conservatives are misrepresenting her statements and trying to paint her as a villain when everything she says is reasonable. By lying about her, it's a tacit confirmation that she's right.
The coroner system is terrible. It treats elected officials as if they are medical experts, and in turn they are able to offer that "expertise" in court. It's a travesty.
There's a great book on how this system can go wrong called The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist. Or you can probably just look up whatever your local coroner has done.
At this rate, based on his defense (and mumbling), I wouldn't be surprised if his appeal ends up generating a third trial that costs him even more money.
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