I know AI is supposed to be a productivity-enhancing tool but the amount of time I now have to spend contemplating the apparently imminent death of everyone I know and love is a *real* drag on my productivity.
paulwells.substack.com/p/driverless
paulwells.substack.com/p/driverless
Driverless
AI will probably kill most of us, a top AI researcher said in Toronto on Tuesday
paulwells.substack.com
November 12, 2026 at 5:54 PM
I know AI is supposed to be a productivity-enhancing tool but the amount of time I now have to spend contemplating the apparently imminent death of everyone I know and love is a *real* drag on my productivity.
paulwells.substack.com/p/driverless
paulwells.substack.com/p/driverless
I can’t wait for the day when a robot police car stops a driverless vehicle for speeding. We will truly have made ourselves rfgyuppt 3.
November 13, 2026 at 2:50 AM
I can’t wait for the day when a robot police car stops a driverless vehicle for speeding. We will truly have made ourselves rfgyuppt 3.
Good grief, yet ANOTHER driverless car, BBC ? Why can't you correct your reporting of these murderous incidents ?
@andy-cox.bsky.social
@andy-cox.bsky.social
Hunt for driver who hit boy with car in Barnstable. www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...
Hunt for driver after young boy hit by car
A small, black vehicle reportedly hit a young boy
www.devonlive.com
November 12, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Good grief, yet ANOTHER driverless car, BBC ? Why can't you correct your reporting of these murderous incidents ?
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Driving a Driverless Lille Metro train!
November 10, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Driving a Driverless Lille Metro train!
This is tosh, though, because the Tube is never going to be driverless
The more the unions choose to inconvenience Londoners, the more sympathetic those in the capital become to the idea of a driverless Underground
Driverless trains would end cycle of Tube strike threats
www.thetimes.com
November 12, 2026 at 3:49 AM
This is tosh, though, because the Tube is never going to be driverless
The robocall I got claiming that driverless cars would increase jobs would be more convincing coming from a human.
November 12, 2026 at 11:46 PM
The robocall I got claiming that driverless cars would increase jobs would be more convincing coming from a human.
My understanding is that at this stage, Waymos are being remotely operated and are not yet allowed to be 'driverless'. Big fan of making people actually be in control of their vehicles though.
Also: who cleans up the vomit when a drunk passenger 'discharges' in a driverless vehicle?
Also: who cleans up the vomit when a drunk passenger 'discharges' in a driverless vehicle?
November 12, 2026 at 1:46 PM
My understanding is that at this stage, Waymos are being remotely operated and are not yet allowed to be 'driverless'. Big fan of making people actually be in control of their vehicles though.
Also: who cleans up the vomit when a drunk passenger 'discharges' in a driverless vehicle?
Also: who cleans up the vomit when a drunk passenger 'discharges' in a driverless vehicle?
the driverless data surveillance vacuum is good actually because it's so fast off the line!
November 13, 2026 at 2:03 PM
the driverless data surveillance vacuum is good actually because it's so fast off the line!
Driverless
AI will probably kill most of us, a top AI researcher said in Toronto on Tuesday
paulwells.substack.com
November 13, 2026 at 2:31 AM
Good news for anyone who has ever dreamt of being killed while exiting a streetcar – I just saw a Waymo testing on the streets of Toronto!
November 11, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Good news for anyone who has ever dreamt of being killed while exiting a streetcar – I just saw a Waymo testing on the streets of Toronto!
Today I went for a trip on an autonomous bus being trialled in Milton Keynes and it was very cool
November 10, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Today I went for a trip on an autonomous bus being trialled in Milton Keynes and it was very cool
Am I the only person thinking that this and other events (like supermarket freezers becoming ovens) might make the mass deployment on our roads of remotely controlled driverless cars slightly tricky? 
November 13, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Am I the only person thinking that this and other events (like supermarket freezers becoming ovens) might make the mass deployment on our roads of remotely controlled driverless cars slightly tricky? 
At some point I wonder why we all keep getting up in the morning, or is that the point of these continued warnings/threats? paulwells.substack.com/p/driverless
Driverless
AI will probably kill most of us, a top AI researcher said in Toronto on Tuesday
paulwells.substack.com
November 12, 2026 at 6:15 PM
At some point I wonder why we all keep getting up in the morning, or is that the point of these continued warnings/threats? paulwells.substack.com/p/driverless
It is. More useful that driverless cars
November 13, 2026 at 4:33 PM
It is. More useful that driverless cars
Profitable "driverless" cars have been around the corner for more than 15 years now. Waymo claims to have delivered this through the brute force expedient of using the most expensive sensors and vast amounts of incredibly expensive cloud computing, but their balance sheet remains stubbornly opaque.
November 12, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Profitable "driverless" cars have been around the corner for more than 15 years now. Waymo claims to have delivered this through the brute force expedient of using the most expensive sensors and vast amounts of incredibly expensive cloud computing, but their balance sheet remains stubbornly opaque.
Can municipalities in Ontario not pass 1 km/h speed limits for driverless cars so as to make Waymo functionally useless?
November 8, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Can municipalities in Ontario not pass 1 km/h speed limits for driverless cars so as to make Waymo functionally useless?
This is viscerally horrifying - especially because it feels like all the power and momentum is on the side of people stomping on the gas. "AI will probably kill most of us, a top AI researcher said in Toronto on Tuesday."
paulwells.substack.com/p/driverless...
paulwells.substack.com/p/driverless...
Driverless
AI will probably kill most of us, a top AI researcher said in Toronto on Tuesday
paulwells.substack.com
November 13, 2026 at 3:15 PM
This is viscerally horrifying - especially because it feels like all the power and momentum is on the side of people stomping on the gas. "AI will probably kill most of us, a top AI researcher said in Toronto on Tuesday."
paulwells.substack.com/p/driverless...
paulwells.substack.com/p/driverless...
If semis can be driverless then a tanker can be too. Which means they both can be hacked and directed off their paths. Ain't no such thing as coincidence.
t-bone seems such a distinct and unlikely interaction unless deliberate
it makes me wonder if a tanker like that can be remote operated
it makes me wonder if a tanker like that can be remote operated
November 14, 2026 at 1:12 AM
If semis can be driverless then a tanker can be too. Which means they both can be hacked and directed off their paths. Ain't no such thing as coincidence.
for dc's vote tomorrow on waymo:
November 12, 2026 at 2:10 AM
for dc's vote tomorrow on waymo:
We can not expect driverless vehicles to see us or our houses if we camouflage them to look like background!
@davidho.bsky.social
@davidho.bsky.social
November 15, 2026 at 8:08 AM
We can not expect driverless vehicles to see us or our houses if we camouflage them to look like background!
@davidho.bsky.social
@davidho.bsky.social
And that robot police car is going to beat the shit out of that driverless vehicle -- especially if it is black.
November 13, 2026 at 3:57 AM
And that robot police car is going to beat the shit out of that driverless vehicle -- especially if it is black.
Each of those engineeers earned an order of magnitude more than the cabbie they'd displaced:
garymarcus.substack.com/p/could-crui...
garymarcus.substack.com/p/could-crui...
Could Cruise be the Theranos of AI? And is there a dark secret at the core of the entire driverless car industry?
We don’t know, but here are some questions regulators should ask
garymarcus.substack.com
November 12, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Each of those engineeers earned an order of magnitude more than the cabbie they'd displaced:
garymarcus.substack.com/p/could-crui...
garymarcus.substack.com/p/could-crui...
Our future -
Driverless vehicles, AI tower controllers. Real cool. Book ‘em, Dano. House arrest.
Driverless vehicles, AI tower controllers. Real cool. Book ‘em, Dano. House arrest.
sure sounds like AI might've f'd up America's air traffic control system
November 14, 2026 at 1:44 AM
Our future -
Driverless vehicles, AI tower controllers. Real cool. Book ‘em, Dano. House arrest.
Driverless vehicles, AI tower controllers. Real cool. Book ‘em, Dano. House arrest.
How are these things allowed? Where in the highway traffic act does it permit driverless cars?
November 8, 2026 at 10:43 PM
How are these things allowed? Where in the highway traffic act does it permit driverless cars?