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Which shyts can go flying on SF power outages?

I pay a lot of money to live in SF. That’s my pain. In exchange for that, I have spent the last 15 years without a car. I can walk everywhere, with multiple transit options if walking isn’t an option. Even taking Ubers on occasion still results in spending less money per month than I would on a payment and gas, and I simply do not ever have to spend a moment of my life worrying about a check engine light coming on. I truly hate driving. It is worth every penny of my rent not to have to do it.

Hell yeah energy storage etc. Especially amid blackouts in SF

He in particular had Bloomberg and was on it practically all the time. He had an office in Toronto and SF but taught in N.C. at my university. Teaching and trading was his entire life despite having kids and it made me quite sad tbh

Wobei man dazu sagen muss, dadurch baust du dann auch keine SF Klasse auf. Allerdings egal falls du da in Kürze mit einem Erbe planst.

Lol oh ya the two cars in Austin a full 4 years after promised. Nice "fleet". Also what's that got to do with the SF blackout

Hobbies sind Joggen und Piano (bzw. probiere es gerade zu erlernen), also recht kostengünstig, regelrecht kostenfrei. Ansonsten noch Gaming. Videospiele und Kino (Freizeit Aktivitäten) habe ich im Konsum mit eingerechnet.
Das Auto will ich eigentlich so lange fahren bis es Schrott ist, oder sich, durch günstigere laufende Kosten, sich eine Neuanschaffung lohnt. Wartung und co. Ist nicht mit eingerechnet, da ich bis jetzt erstmal keine hatte. Das Auto hat auf die 4 Jahre die ich es abbezahle eine Garantieverlängerung vom Hersteller, heißt aber auch das ich immer zu Vertragswerkstätten von Kia muss.
Fahren tue ich ungefähr 20km am Tag, je nachdem welchen Bahnhof ich ansteuere. Die Versicherung ist auf 9k km im Jahr, da ich das Auto unter anderem auch für Urlaub mit zu nutzen plane. Finde dort meine fast 100€ im Monat doch recht hoch, obwohl ich als Auszubildender im ö.D. und durch SF von meinem Vater eigentlich doch recht günstig als Fahranfänger davon kommen sollte, oder?

Today I learned Tessler doesn’t have robotaxis in SF.
Just dudes driving you around in their Tessler with FSD.

just from heart:
\- first unsupervised robotaxi rides
\- waymo "crashed" during the power outage in SF, while robotaxis continued to work

Fair point, uber still has a robust domestic and international network and a lot of time to innovate nor will human drivers go quietly either. (It may also take some time for people to fully trust driverless vehicles. I think we're one bad accident away from a sizeable setback. .) Also, Waymo was essentially defunct when that power outage hit SF (though Tesla SD was still functioning!) so its not likely humans are totally obsolete. (Also states might restrict AVs to protect human jobs) However, I still think the reality is that Tesla and Google (More so google to be honest in terms of sheer practicality, though tesla's tech is in my opinion the end goal of AVs) are undoubtedly the pioneers of the future and while Uber's app would be hard to replicate, it wouldn't be impossible. It IS however IMPOSSIBLE for Uber to replicate the tech Tesla and Google have right now. I think this is important to think about when we consider potential winners and losers in this race.

In most blackout I experienced, I still have cellular signal, because the tower has backup power. Isn’t SF the same?

So waymo services suspended due to power outage in SF. We seeing an UBER pump tomorrow?

Well if a product can be shut down by company remotely on street out there, that’s really huge security detail isn’t it? Can you imagine Reddit’s outrage if Tesla started doing this? I only bought up Tesla because Waymo is Reddit’s darling so it gets a pass. I like both, I live in SF and have tried both so it’s not personal thing to me, just pointing out when Waymo is lauded here and Tesla is bashed, conveniently Waymo’s flaws are swept under the rug and anything Tesla related is exaggerated to extreme.

Depends where you work. Bay area is more than just SF penninsula.

SF basically did this weekend

I dont get what youre saying ... can you explain this. Regulators havr given permission for passengers in driverless cars
Here's waymo claiming 1 million rides / mo
https://waymo.com/blog/2025/12/2025-year-in-review
Here's tesla without the monitor in Austin and mentions SF testing without monitor as well near the end
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/15/tesla-starts-testing-robotaxis-in-austin-with-no-safety-driver/

Drove around SF all day, through golden gate, around town, back home - basically 99% FSD - had to manually go up the tiniest spiral parking garage - which like good god I’m not sure a robot will be able to do that for a while.
I have 2021 level FOMO. But only 20% Portfolio (including kids accounts). I’m proud of myself haha.
But hard for me to switch out of NVDA to TSLA when I think both will win big.
Gap up tomorrow for TSLA 🚀

Case in point yesterday's SF blackout.

Based on the rate of Robotaxi / Cybercab news - it does feel like we will get a breaking post about how 10-20 cyber cabs are deployed in Austin / SF.
Elon definitely picking up the pace!

Edge case? More of a corner case and should have been on the short list to handle first in the design phase. Stop where you are and blocking the street is not a solution. Tickets and a tow for each one of them is in order. Oh to be a SF Tow company right now...early XMAS for them.