adamjcook

@adamjcook@mastodon.social

Engineer focused on #Robotics, #ControlSystems, #SystemsSafety, #Manufacturing and #Simulation. #ManufacturingOpen Contributor. #Purdue Engineering alum. Living in #Detroit. He/Him.
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adamjcook, to random

I am relatively new to , and it is possible that I missed it, but can someone reassure me that there is a near-term plan to dump the token-based fare system to ride the People Mover?

A near-term plan to consolidate all city/regional transportation into a single fare system?

This should have really been addressed during the recent Detroit State of the City address, if it was not done so.

adamjcook, (edited ) to random

Look. Real talk.

I like Governor ’s leadership in in general and I completely understand where this is coming from… but we need to get super aggressive in significantly reducing our dependency on .

Like, right now.

It is not coming back anywhere close to where it was at its peak.

Zero chance.

are not a growth industry, nor should they be.

adamjcook, to random

I am working on a longer "response" to this.

In my view, and have assets and vast pools of human creativity and talent, here, already studying and living in the state and city, that are being tragically underutilized.

This article presents some ideas, but they are far too crude and high-level to be actually useful.

That needs to be honed quite a bit.

https://www.bridgemi.com/business-watch/can-michigan-defuse-its-population-time-bomb-see-how-far-we-fall-short

adamjcook, (edited ) to random

I am going to be really disappointed if everyone at this Policy Conference left without recognizing the need to aggressively diversify ’s economic base away from .

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/michigan/2023/06/01/whitmer-creates-group-to-study-solutions-to-michigan-population-loss/70246882007/

adamjcook, to random

So, I am finishing up a thread (a story, really) about my personal experience with the Manufacturing USA initiative and, in particular, the MxD institute in .

That should be interesting as my thread will be highly-critical of it.

Designed to challenge 's Made in China 2025 program, I believe it has utterly failed to do so.

But adjacent to that (or as a preview of sorts), I am reminded of another series of events that I think are under-recognized...

https://www.mxdusa.org

adamjcook, to reddit

Really thinking of just dropping , for what it is worth.

Dropped my profile off my Mastodon bio.

Reddit management is giving me serious vibes lately and I have been getting follow spammed 4-5 times daily for the last two weeks.

Met a lot of great technical and experts on there though - mostly through pushing back against 's and wrongdoings.

I suppose that work continues here now...

adamjcook, to Electricvehicles

This is a very interesting (and highly-interactive!) piece about ... and, yet, if we are going to discuss "underbellies" of then I think the following are almost always neglected:

  1. How heavier vehicles negatively impact roadway safety and increase non-exhaust emissions (dust and PM 2.5); and
  2. How heavier vehicles (and the proliferation of cars, in general) will drive a growth in negative concrete externalities - which are significant.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2023/electric-car-batteries-geography/

adamjcook, to random

Uh.

has a booth over here in Capitol Park for weekend.

I’ll be walking around all day.

My kid nephew is coming over.

adamjcook, to ai

Does Senator have brain worms, or what?

What does this even mean?

adamjcook, to tesla

🧵Here is my take on this development… this case should have never made it to judges and juries.

It does make it to judges and juries because of the deliberate disinterest of the US’s theoretical auto safety regulator - the .

We are dealing with extraordinarily complex and highly-opaque system engineering issues here.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-17/tesla-failed-to-fix-autopilot-after-fatal-crash-engineers-say

adamjcook, to random

Greektown crazy tonight!

Be safe out there !

adamjcook, to random

Please . Please. I am begging you. Stop doing this.

's product is not at all, "partially" or otherwise, capable of "self-driving".

The official term, if you need to use something, is a "partial automated driving system" and the control responsibilities of the human driver utilizing such a system are exactly the same as if they were driving a 1995 Dodge Neon.

No Tesla vehicle is capable of "driving itself".

https://www.axios.com/2023/05/10/elon-musk-cathie-wood-tesla-twitter

adamjcook, to random

It is like Groundhog Day, once again, at the US Department of Transportation.

Incredible.

Here we are again, Secretary all but admitting that 's marketing strategies are deceptive and dangerous... but not leveraging the broad powers of the to do anything about it.

This has only been going on for nearly 10 years now...

https://apnews.com/article/tesla-autopilot-buttigieg-investigation-crash-musk-1455d194b18fe17609554dd68864654c

adamjcook, to random

We are a month away from Fest/Parade! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

No one does it like my hometown of Chicago.

I will be there.

We also do not take any shit in Chicago.

Neo- and ... you are on notice.

https://chicagopride.gopride.com/info.cfm

adamjcook, to random

No surprises here.

As I have stated multiple time on this site, over multiple months now - the is an absolutely horrible regulator that, frankly, has done tremendous, lasted damage to US .

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-08/top-us-auto-safety-investigator-resigns-after-audit-finds-flaws

adamjcook, to Michigan

Former Governor Rick Snyder should be in the clink for the Water Crisis coverup - instead, we are continually treated with these thought pieces while he walks free amongst his victims.

Nothing, in recent memory, has damaged the attractiveness of Michigan like that episode.

https://www.crainsdetroit.com/commentary/opinion-michigan-needs-house-republican-majority

adamjcook, to random

This really is shameful on the part of the and it concretely harms public health - during a sensitive time, no less.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/23/outcry-as-world-health-organization-locks-out-taiwan-under-pressure-from-china

adamjcook, (edited ) to random

For the millionth time… editors, the and … a vehicle is, at no time, capable of “self-driving”.

There is no “self-driving mode”.

Publishing these terms and descriptions only serve to advance Tesla’s and ’s lies and are an immense public safety hazard.

https://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/2023/05/michigan-woman-hospitalized-after-self-driving-tesla-crashes-into-tree.html

adamjcook, (edited ) to random

The music and art is out and about on streets! ❤️

adamjcook, to random

is beautiful.

Don't let anyone else tell you otherwise.

A TikTok video take from the "bedrockdetroit" channel. Bedrock is a local real estate developer in Detroit. The video starts with a title card stating: A Walk Downtown, Detroit, Michigan at 11:54 AM Throughout the video many freshly renovated Bedrock properties in Downtown Detroit are cycled through. An individual wearing a horizontally-stripped shirt is shown in each frame looking at the camera or nonchalantly walking past the view. The video ends with the individual featured at Mister Dips, which is a popular desert and ice cream spot in Detroit.

adamjcook, to Michigan

I hope the Governor's Mansion and the Statehouse in are working on this.

Having a hard stop at cuts us off from and and, really, much of anything really.

Yeah, we have a connection with , I know... but we have much more potential synergies with these two cities in my view.

A windfall of federal money seems to be flowing elsewhere.

adamjcook, to detroit

When is the City of going to sue local slumlord, Dennis Kefallinos, and his dipshit son for the way that The Michigan Theatre Building is being left to rot?

Are they getting hit with blight violations at least?

It’s fucking absurd that this building is not being put to work.

adamjcook, to tesla

Inefficient, environmentally-harmful and unsafe.

and Clark County, reaching new lows of crummy urban planning.

https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/las-vegas-loop-tunnels-reach-encore-westgate/

adamjcook, to random

A Tiggy Cat .

adamjcook, (edited ) to TeslaMotors

Anyone remember the time when promised that, if you buy a vehicle today, it will soon earn you $30,000/year in personal income by acting as a public "robotaxi" when not in use?

That was in 2019.

Same basic lie, different day.

The lie worked for Tesla when Tesla needed it most financially (and Musk was never challenged on it by US regulators), and so Musk is now trying it again.

Of course, the "Tesla Lie" actually killed people (by creating human driver complacency).

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