Waymo car swarmed by skaters in San Francisco 'hill bomb'

Those views and clicks only make some billionaire more money.

These kids feel rebellious though, that’s efficient capitalism.

What if cities were built around public transit? Like trains? Or what about small trains that seat 4 people, and can go along many aboveground tracks?

At night, I sometimes scroll through the live TikTok streams. There's one I've really come to enjoy. Some drag strip somewhere in Texas is open to almost all comers. People bring in their street cars or custom vehicles. And duel it out on the quarter mile. Kinda fun to see something like a 30 year old supercharged pickup go against some brand new Infiniti.

There's some people around to make things are safe. No cops in sight. When a new vehicle rolls in, people crowd around to check it out. It's a beautiful thing.

It's almost convinced me that cities should put in a public access drag strip. Just like they have facilities for other sports. A place where the teenagers and gearheads can go nuts. But away from public streets and with some basic safety rules and equipment. I think it would be a huge hit.

Not specific to Oakland, FWIW:

"Skyrocketing Expressway Shootings a Uniquely Chicago Problem, Investigators Say" https://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/skyrocketing-expre...

"1 killed in expressway shooting in NW Indiana - FOX 32 Chicago" https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/1-killed-in-expressway-sho...

You can find examples for Minnesota (the well-mannered state), Wisconsin, Missouri, and elsewhere.

The "but it's safe here" narrative probably isn't valid.

I don't have comparative statistics, but keep in mind that California's population is ~40 million compared to 12.5 m for Illinois, and less for surrounding states.

This attempt to counter-chastize rings hollow to me.

We all have phones we can use to film things. Yes. They do an ok 1080p, many technically can do 4k but look close at the capture & you'll see it's largely mush. To record, people have to pull put their phones & aim that at things: a specific & noticable event. One that typically comes at very significant battery usage costs.

Now by compare here's a vehicle with multiple sensor devices that cost multiple thousands of dollars a piece. You can jolly well bet these are predominntly always on devices. There's no indicator for when these devices might send the data back to the mothership or not- a true panoptician design; the threat of recordings being sent up is perpetually implied, it's medium-term buffers likely to get uploaded if anything happens or sampled anyways just because. These high end sensor platforms are actively roaming, are driving about, working together to gain a vast top down composite view of the world, something again a couple random instagram feeds provides only the faintest most distant glimmer of.

The power control & hierarchy here is clear as day to me. Fearing uncoordinated masses with low res handheld phones feels ridiculous by compare.