This guy at about the midpoint of the YT Short, says the waymo cars that were burned, are valued between 600k to 900k.
Googleâs AI says 150k to 200k.
Hmmm. Looks like someone is carjacking the crisis?
ralph
Edit:
Maybe he was talking about total cost of all 5 cars?
It appears so. The Wall Street Journal article from October:
Robotaxis Canât Be a Solo Act
https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/robotaxis-cant-be-a-solo-act-9a787252?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=ASWzDAjuoaQrWW8nwZGwCoTU9l6rOqZdMNUqTEYkUCF_BHsnaK3jpRovTyPsT6EkpLI%3D&gaa_ts=68463fc6&gaa_sig=U8VRq9FIl_UyCzWx6Oru3QSJgOVrorrtFHQFQMYQ4AjzdK-h5HtxGswjcR14lzanswGlbTlsmWCRzUGOJVuoTg%3D%3D
Networks of expensive, self-driving cars need a wide base of paying riders, which could make Uber essential to Teslaâs successâŚWhile robotaxis spare the expense of paying a human driver, they are far from cheap. Analysts from Bernstein estimate that Waymoâs driverless cars cost between $150,000 and $200,000 a piece, factoring in the cost of the vehicle itself and the sensors and computing power necessary to run them.
So it seems rioters figured out that if you order one to come pick you up in a riot zone, and you throw something at it to make it think it hit something, it stops cold. In this case, when half a dozen are ordered to roughly the same spot, and all are stopped, they become toxic tiki torches.
DB2
Hang on. I think the 14th guy on the bridge to the left of the Exit 2 sign is Umbrella Man.
They havenât seen anything yet.
Trying to rip a couple million out of the population, is going to create some incidents.
Have your papers in order?
Steve
I thought your middle name was Oscar?
The almost certainly illegal takeover of the California National Guard by Trump and Hesgeth,
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/12/national-guard-california-lawsuit-court-hearing-00403910
and noisome Noemâs bodyguardâs thug tactics against US Senator Padilla
show that we are now on thinnest ice for the continuation of the Republic without, uhm, really bad stuff. Which securities are vulnerable? Frighteningly, but true to much political history, securities might thrive despite the spectre of Civil War.
The court ruling has been stayed for review by the 9th Circuit today, but the huge constitutional issue is engaged. If POTUS impunity is not stopped, kaboom, seems to me we have fallen out of the category of being a Constitutional Federal Republic.. If stopped, I expect there WILL be a next move by TIG and cohorts to raise the stakes again.
I am traveling in Spain. Even the check-in clerk here in Barcelona voiced gentle concernâŚ.
If stopped, I expect there WILL be a next move by TIG and cohorts to raise the stakes again."
There is 3 1/2 more years of this stuff, there ainât gonna be any rational, logical pullback to contemplate judicial decisions,lol. The Country voted for this, and now weâve got this. Iâm still trying to figure out the investing angle. I make more than I withdraw in IRA. The main question I have is what happens when there is an actual real crisis, not this self-inflicted idiotic string of âcrisisâsâ that we bounce into on a weekly basis. I look no further back than covid for an example of how poorly the guy in charge handles a crisis.
But,imo, the American public hasnât felt any real pain yet, and that is what itâs going to take. Recently I seen TIG stating that heâs brought prices down, that gas was $1.99 a gallon. That was an utter and total lie and fabrication, the evidence right in front of everybodyâs noses that fills up at the pump.
But Iâm not hearing any of the red-hat people that I know stating that gee, the great man in office was wrong about that. Nope, they are still all in. And that attitude allows TIG to keep doing asinine stuff. And 1 thing is certain, he will continue to do asinine stuff until he is forced to pull back, not asked to pull back.
Where I was, things were peaceful and as orderly as these things get. As I crossed 1st Street on Alameda to approach a denser area, protestors were directing traffic. Warning cars that they might end up stuck in a crowd of people, giving them alternate directions to the freeway. Warning us pedestrians, âHave an exit plan. Theyâre about to declare this unlawful.â There was a skirmish line of officers, a bunch of protestors just close and just far enough. There were chants and signs, American flags and Mexican flags. There were abuelitas handing out cold bottles of water. There were dogs. There were people asking to pet the dogs. It was as peaceful and orderly as these things get, but there was the unshakable sense that it could all go to sh*t in an instant. It did not.
That is optimistic. As offered before, I fully expect that, if he can draw breath, he will run in 28, and declare himself the winner.
Steve
Do not forget that Peter Thiel seems to have, uhmm, a significant stake in the VP, and from what we see of implementation of the 2025 Plan and descendants, there are plans within plans. Trump can die or live, alive or dead, and I doubt it makes a difference. The zillionaires and companions who see modern clueless democracy as something in the way of, uhmm, their vision of progress will push the rubble aside as expeditiously as seems expedient to them. They are smart and manipulative enough and have put enough money down already that I expect Trump does what they want and is convinced it is his own idea.
But hey, I am a paranoid nut. Nothing happening here. Nothing at all!
More People saying the protests are peaceful.
Meanwhile, Fox Noise, is pushing the narrative the demonstrators were âpaid agitatorsâ.
Steve
Well since it is such a small amount of violence I suspect they will be spinning their wheels with investigative committeeâs tying up Trumps agenda for a couple of years.
Itâs all about the show, with this regime.
Steve
Iâm just going to leave this here, since it was just deleted after only 19 minutes. A New Yorker article about the architect of this new world order.