Brian McGuigan

Public policy @Waymo. @Lyft and more before. Dad x2, pilot, sailor and skier. Tweets my own.

[Elsa @elsathora]

Have you ever driven through the streets of San Fransisco? Me neither

Mind blowing how advanced the US is

[Suzanne Philion @SuzKP]

Today is such a proud milestone for our @Waymo team as we launch our first-ever national brand campaign. And awesome to have it air during the first US World Cup game tonight in LA!!! 🇺🇸 🇵🇾 ⚽

With this campaign, we want to open up a conversation about who we are doing this for... It's about our riders, the drivers with whom we share the road, cyclists, pedestrians, and the communities we serve. We build this technology and grow this service not because humans aren’t enough, but because to us, they’re everything.

This campaign is an invitation to connect with our mission on a deeper, more human level. And as we look to the future, we want to hear from you: raise your hand and let us know where you want to see the Waymo Driver next.

🤩 A massive thank you to our phenomenal team for bringing this vision to life with so much creativity, care, heart, and sleepless nights. 😍 💚 💙 Watch the film below and let me know your thoughts. 👇

[Ben Pouladian @benitoz]

This aged horrifically.

California politicians dunked on Elon and helped drive out SpaceX, Tesla jobs, engineers, suppliers, and the tax base.

Now SpaceX is headed for a $1.75T IPO.

“Message received” may be the most expensive political own-goal in California history.

[Brian McGuigan @bricaul]

@m_franceschetti @eightsleep @AVGregR the future of transportation?

[Brian McGuigan @bricaul]

@citystatebeer What a great run, James. Proud of you.

[Brian McGuigan @bricaul]

@OC_Scanner Saw these guys on their way there

[Brian McGuigan @bricaul]

@traviscline Wtf

[Greg Rogers @AVGregR]

It's been a month since @CMCharlesAllen introduced his bill to bring AVs to DC – and DC Council hasn't moved forward at all.

At another hearing last week, CM Nadeau said an AV hearing is "months" away.

Local supporters of AVs are now writing to @councilofdc to move forward. 🧵

[Brian McGuigan @bricaul]

@RedditCFB @SMC_Baseball @UMBCAthletics At UCLA too

[ESPN @espn]

SAINT MARY'S ELIMINATES THE NO. 1 OVERALL SEED UCLA IN WALK-OFF FASHION 😱

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

That feels about right.

If every driver was as good as Waymo, then America's longevity gap with peer nations would shrink by 9%.

Almost 10% of the entire gap is due to bad drive of the sort that Waymo, Robotaxi, Zoox, etc. seem poised to eliminate.

[11Point7 College Baseball @11point7]

THE SAINT MARY'S GAELS HAVE DONE IT 🔥🔥🔥

DOWN GOES #1 NATIONAL SEED UCLA. THE FIRST TIME EVER, #1 OVERALL SEED LOST GAME 1

[Landon @landon20s]

🤖🚙🤖🚙🤖🚙🤖🚙🤖🚙🤖🚙🤖🚙🤖🚙

[Brian McGuigan @bricaul]

@mattyglesias That hasn't stopped the California legislature

[Brian McGuigan @bricaul]

Great moments in unions expressing concern about air quality in CEQA history:

1. New A's Stadium taking over a port
2. New Whole Foods in a vacant Best Buy
3. ↓

[Liam Dillon @dillonliam]

State worker unions threatening lawsuit under California Environmental Quality Act over the governor's return-to-office mandate: “Putting 90,000 people on the road and pumping that much carbon into the air has an environmental impact."
https://t.co/y5m509eVAX

[Brian McGuigan @bricaul]

@antoniogm Shangri La

[Brian McGuigan @bricaul]

@bobball Lol

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

“It's a little freaky not to have a driver,” says @AndersonCooper as he rides in a Waymo robotaxi. https://t.co/bZB4nh9ItX

[Gary Winslett 🌐🇺🇸 @GaryWinslett]

This is just as true now as it was last year.

[MTS @MTSlive]

SITUATION ANALYSIS: Approximately 40,000 Americans die in road crashes every year, over 100 deaths per day.

Cities including DC, New York, Boston, and Minneapolis have either blocked or slow-walked autonomous vehicle deployment despite mounting evidence that AVs dramatically reduce serious crashes (Waymo's 100M-mile safety data showed 91% fewer serious injury or fatal crashes vs human drivers).

@slotkinjr (Vice Chair of Neurosurgery at Geisinger) and @EricTopol (cardiologist and Scripps professor) argues this is no longer a tech story. It's a public health crisis being blocked by bureaucratic inertia and special interests.

"I'm a practicing neurosurgeon, so I have blood on my hands ... blood of our children ... every week from car crashes. We have 100-plus Americans die every day. That's a 737 dropping out of the sky every day. If we had a 737 dropping out of the sky every day, we would ground the air fleet until we had solved this problem. But somehow we've accepted that."

"The data is really, really strong that we need to smartly advance this technology now, but it's hitting roadblocks in a lot of areas."