Autonomously driving like a self-centered jerk. #Waymo pulls into the intersection to stop at a red light, blocking anyone from proceeding up the side street needlessly. #AutonomousVehicles #CAPUC #CADMV #SanFrancisco Apparently these systems are being designed to drive like the worst among us.

Cal PUC: We need to remove state incentives to rooftop solar because it's causing rates to rise and that's unfair to poor people who can't afford to install solar.

Also Cal PUC: We're letting PG&E raise rates $400/yr on average to pay for grid upgrades even though we let them not upgrade their grid for decades and send the money back to shareholders.

Me to wife: I really hate the PUC sometimes. Mostly when I think about them.

#California #SolarPower #PUC #CAPUC

Official misconduct in gas markets gouging consumers i.e #RegulatoryCapture at the #CaPUC: Spot market #transactions in #NaturalGas are shielded from #PublicScrutiny. Comparable #electricity #transactions, by contrast, were made #public after #Enron traders took advantage of #deregulation to loot California. Now every electricity trade on the spot market is published, deterring such #misconduct.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-03-13/natural-gas-price-socalgas