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This will sound like a joke, but that was Anthony Levandowski

We're working on riderless and balance-assisted bicycles and motorcycles. We're working to ship our flagship bike and we're about to launch a balance-bike for kids that helps them …

Regen will usually only gain you 3-5% total range, most of the power from biking is dissipated as heat through aero drag, even if you're biking up and down hills. Source – my compa…

This should be the new standard for ebike charging, or all personal EVs like scooters and EUCs.

Ebikers naturally start taking routes that optimize for safety and enjoyment over avoiding hills. It would be cool for Strava or Goog Maps to detect ebikers (easy to tell from spee…

I also grew up in NZ idolizing Faraday. I feel sad to see obviously smart and passionate folks like this with deep technical interests end up in venture so young.

Moreover, the kind of builders you want as an early stage startup are almost certainly not the type who would be hired guns for this kind of VC.

You joke, but I’ve kicked around the idea of bike tunnels with collimated air blowing down them at 20mph to make riding at that speed more comfortable, and make loitering uncomfort…

This is bizarre, I’m in non-car autonomy but I talk daily with car autonomy folks. Everyone has been expecting a consolidation of companies through acquisitions but drive.ai showed…

I've done this math before and it's not encouraging. Global carbon fuel burning is more than two cubic miles annually. A billion trees will capture about a trillion kgs of carbon o…

I did undergrad at UW, several of my classmates did grad work on LIGO and were on the gravity wave teams when they had their first detection. Amazing what timing can do for a caree…

I think we all know what the quote is about even though it's not an actual Ponzi scheme, it's just fraud. Another good reminder to question everything, especially group wisdom.

"How would you ensure having the exact same starting conditions each time?" is the best question in that thread, and this was the biggest challenge for us in training our bikes to …

I've lived in a ~250sqft 1940's era wood train car for the past 9 years, with my wife and now a newborn. It is doable if you enjoy the constraints and how it affects your decision …

I use this to send messages to the agent that won't be recorded in the transcript because I delete it after typing it. Not sure if it has gotten me better results from the agents b…

I tweeted at him to ask him what size lens and sensor he has so I could estimate how much energy/flux was hitting his sensor. Anyone have an idea of how many lidar it would take to…

I've been following these guys for a while and I really like their approach. In our lab we've done a lot of work to improve control of cheaper BLDC motors (low gearing) to mimic hu…

I've noticed a surge ofex-uber folks looking to angel invest having been popping up in the past few months. I'm excited for this IPO purely for the money that will be invested in t…

Awesome result, hopefully we'll see a video of it in action and more information of thrust to power ratio. Very cool.

I use quaternions at work (AVs) and used them in physics and astronomy in school. The math he's talking about is darned close to the math done behind the scences with quaternions, …

Weel | Perception engineer, EE, and Fusion 360 expert Looking for onsite engineers in Seattle (SODO). We've developed a two-wheeled ebike that will autononously deliver itself to c…

Localizing the sound isn't just a matter of hearing a phase shift between your ears, you also have some 'knowledge' about how sound moves in a room, how your ears change the sound,…

Self-delivering bicycles my man, too light to kill people in impacts, slow when autonomous.

Sorry no, I'd have to dig up my notes from the interview and I'm slammed working on my startup. You don't wanna move to the west coast? You like bicycles and robots perchance?