Episode 4: Jony Ive And His Consequences Have Been A Disaster For The Human Race
Hello! In this episode, we discuss the Ferrari Luce interior (feat. Squircle King Jony Ive), the (possible?) death of the Porsche 718 EV, and Victoria puts on her hammer-and-sickle hat to discuss why she thinks Waymo could be good, but probably won't be. We also shout out Thomas Sabula, the sole man at Ford more powerful than Jim Farley. Go off, king.
First bonus episode coming later this week for Patreon subscribers!!!
Referenced stories:
Jony Ive/Ferrari Luce Interior Teaser Pics @Jalopnik
Jony Ive/OpenAI iO concept design (I thought this concept rendering I saw floating around was the real thing - it's not; they've just vaguely gestured at the idea of a wearable. Jony, you could still surprise me by not using aluminum and glass in the final design. Bet you won't)
Porsche dropping the 718 EV? Who Knows!!!! @TheDrive
Porsche in the US market @Autoblog
EV sales falling in America in 2025 @TheDrive
Waymo hits child @SFGate
Robotaxis looooooove crashin' @Electrek
Apocryphal story of Musk's hatred of the color yellow in his factories @Intelligencer
Mitch McConnell's sister in law drowns in Tesla crash @BBC
Cruise disengagement statistic @CNBC
Waymo runs over cat in the Mission @axios
Waymo customer wealth @Forbes
Cruise false reports about pedestrian impacts @BayAreaNBC
My DDR bandanna drip @bsky
Source for cost estimates on Waymo compute stack @CBTNews
One Hundred Ten Billion Dollars @Reddit
Thomas Sabula Dudes Rock Moment @Road And Track
Our intro music as always is off stella spazzatura's album Horse Tranquilizer Simulator, which you can find on Bandcamp!
Comments (22)
I’m a Luddite for Waymo’s because I’m a ride share chump. Worker that is, but I will not root for either big ride share company with the 60 40 split against the driver. It’s not great in either direction.
If “self-driving” Waymos are ‘technology’, I find it clarifying to think of curbs, bollards, speed bumps, planter boxes, etc. as *also* technology—non-digital, sure, but also very old, proven, and cheap. If the one plausible-sounding argument for Waymo is “humans are bad drivers,” that's a problem that was solved a long time ago via street design that prevents drivers from hurting others or themselves. Only if we memory-hole this can the car-with-LIDAR, private profit model start to seem like a ‘solution’.
Probably a sociological question about deviance and how humans are still mostly water because they hate slowing down or inching.
Bored Ape Motor Club
Yes! That's how Wenatchee is pronounced (AFAIK?). Also, the weird Ferrari SUV *is* neat (V12? suicide doors? hell yeah) and EXCUSE ME, THE Q7 IS A CAYENNE.
Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luce_(mascot)
The first pronounciation of Luce was the correct one
Counterpoint, while Waymo may reduce accidents in the short term, in the long term it perpetuates, consolidates, and entrenches car usage in a way that will lead to far more deaths than that. I’m a car abolitionist, tbh. I think the industry should replaced by mass transit until cars are a niche hobby. EDIT: Oh good, Jordan brought it up right after I unpaused.
Vegas had pre-existing laws around personal powered vehicles from Segway tours so the rental scooters couldn't take hold here. Which is kinda a shame because scootermania vids in casinos would have been so funny.
The neon on a fleet of electric scooters is a rad mental image.
the one random ID.4 drive-by in here hit like a fucking flashbang to me, a (relatively happy) ID.4 owner
I’m very glad you like yours but the capacitive touch buttons everywhere on my test car a few years back made me want to begin the butlerian jihad
"rolex-purchasing member of society" should be a euphenism.
I’m sure I missed it somewhere, but I have to know the origin of the “shapes place” 😂. Just curious.
It’s when one of us gets so overwhelmed we shove our fingers into our eyes and make the back of our eyelids make pretty shapes lmao
A new episode! What a pleasant surprise. Enjoyed it greatly.
Yeah! Communism! Cool!
Gotta imagine that union rep meeting with mgmt went something along the lines of "So that guy you sent home, that was with pay right?" Ford mgmt: "....yes?" "Nice, give him a couple days off smart move be a shame if we had to grieve this" Ford, jordan peele sweating meme: "....yes"
A distressing thought, cops have driven chargers for long enough that there are people alive who have only seen cop crown vics in movies
Oh God. I’ve crumbled to dust instantly
The problem with owning a hyper luxury SUV: If I drove one past a homeless person I would have to kill myself
Praise be to Stella for the intro!