Joseph Carlson (Founder) 00:00.330
you can try to blame this on of course the power company but that kind of misses the point waymos should be able to operate even when the power goes down otherwise they're just going to cause massive traffic jams and they they kind of outline that they're intended to they're
Joseph Carlson (Founder) 00:14.890
designed to but they say this is a much bigger event than they've ever planned before
Joseph Carlson (Founder) 00:18.890
while the waymo driver is designed to treat nonfunctioning signals as a four way stop the sheer scale of the outage led to instances where the vehicles remain stationary longer than usual to confirm the state of the affected intersection
Joseph Carlson (Founder) 00:32.360
so basically the waymos are being way too cautious they were sitting there trying to figure out what's going on trying to confirm the state of things and they need some extra work some extra programming for these type of edge cases
Joseph Carlson (Founder) 00:43.440
they highlight that the majority of active trips were successfully completed before vehicles were safely returned to depots or pulled over but ultimately they ended up shutting down the way most service until the power was back on now
Joseph Carlson (Founder) 00:55.160
as this was going on elon musk posted this he posted this ex post that says quote tesla robotaxis were unaffected by the san francisco power outage
Joseph Carlson (Founder) 01:05.560
and i thought this was an interesting post he's pointing out that tesla robotaxis worked perfectly but tesla robotaxis don't really exist in california unless you're
Joseph Carlson (Founder) 01:17.080
talking about the ones that are driver assisted in which case for every single tesla there is a human in the driver 's seat that is required by law to be at the ready to take over the vehicle at any time should anything unordinary happen
Joseph Carlson (Founder) 01:32.280
so you're kind of comparing apples to oranges here a bit i don't think it's really a fair comparison to compare elon musk 's robo taxi in san francisco to waymo 's where waymo does not have drivers in the driver 's seat they
Joseph Carlson (Founder) 01:45.120
say quote tesla has not obtained permits to conduct driverless testing or services in the state without a human safety supervisor behind the wheel ready to steer or break at any time
Joseph Carlson (Founder) 01:56.320
now fuego also had a driver assistant in the driver 's seat ready to take over at any time they likely wouldn't have had any issues as well they could have jumped in anytime away MO had any trouble with an intersection
Joseph Carlson (Founder) 02:08.520
so it makes sense that tesla 's robo taxi was unaffected because elon 's definition apparently of a robotaxi is any vehicle that has a driver assistant sitting in the front seat able to monitor it at any point in time that's not the same definition of a robotaxi that i have or
Joseph Carlson (Founder) 02:25.720
that waymo has now
Joseph Carlson (Founder) 02:26.920
i've had a lot of people interested in my take on this as i'm invested in google i'm bullish on waymo i think it's a great story for the company and this doesn't really change my viewpoint at all on waymo i view
Joseph Carlson (Founder) 02:37.290
this more similar to how aws went out for a full day that caused enormous amounts of headaches as one of the biggest events that happened was aws going down we also have time periods where youtube went down for a number of hours
Joseph Carlson (Founder) 02:50.880
the biggest video website in the world went down for hours caused a lot of headaches for people you have instances where netflix had a live streaming event and they had a lot of lagging and people getting disconnected anytime these companies are doing big things at scale there's
Joseph Carlson (Founder) 03:04.600
going to be some hiccups
Joseph Carlson (Founder) 03:06.240
this one resulted in no deaths or accidents there's no big tragedy caused by it they simply caused some roadblocks for a short amount of time to me it doesn't change the story of waymo at all
Joseph Carlson (Founder) 03:15.960
now moving on we get to the fail of the week this is a person that had at one point just recently even this year a million dollars now their portfolio size is three thousand dollars and they owe over two hundred fifty thousand dollars to the creditors and the IRS so
Joseph Carlson (Founder) 03:29.840
how did this person dig themselves in this terrible situation we'll take a look at the story he says firstly i already know what most of you are thinking how could you do this trust me i know
Joseph Carlson (Founder) 03:39.880
i'm in an absolute low right now and i pray that one day i can pull back i managed to get a temporary extension for what is owed but i lost everything because i got lucky with liberation day
Joseph Carlson (Founder) 03:49.920
i made a lot because i had plans to start my life with my girlfriend she doesn't know yet but each day i don't tell her is killing me i sold the house i grew up in a burden i never wanted to deal with and i explicitly said i don't want to worry about what is owed
Joseph Carlson (Founder) 04:06.360
i was naive enough to not do my taxes on my own which came around liberation day and i genuinely did not expect to end the year this way
Joseph Carlson (Founder) 04:14.400
so this guy inherited the home that he grew up in he wasn't living in it he sold the home got a bunch of money from selling it and then he did not pay the sales tax on the home so now he's stuck owing the IRS one hundred and seventy nine thousand dollars now
Joseph Carlson (Founder) 04:30.840
he says that i made plans on paying my taxes several times and let it slip by and here i am i have ADHD and struggle with it daily i chase the dopamine and panicked fumble hard if anything i wish to say please don't do what i did
Joseph Carlson (Founder) 04:47.040
do not chase the dream because you'll be left with a nightmare it's so bad at the beginning of the year he had five hundred and fifteen thousand dollars that's from the home sale then he gambled with options
Joseph Carlson (Founder) 04:57.800
that's how you have those type of massive spikes where it goes from five hundred thousand dollars to a million at the highest point he had one million seventy thousand dollars the second peak he got back up to five hundred and eighty thousand dollars but he stayed in