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Phil Koopman
Personal blog · philkoopman.substack.comaisystems
Phil Koopman's personal blog at philkoopman.substack.com covers ai and systems. Since 2025, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite Phil Koopman's Substack posts on autonomous vehicle safety, including robotaxi remote assistance operators, Tesla's safety reports and Waymo's disclosures. The links are used as sources.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Are autonomous systems such as robotaxis safe? And what does "safe" even mean? Plus other posts on Computer System Safety, Embedded Systems, Software. 100% Human-Written.
What Hacker News says?
you are incorrect as they do not have a remote human operator Yes, they do, the term to search is “remote assistance operator”. e.g. https://philkoopman.substack.com/p/all-robotaxis-have-remote...
Comment linking /p/all-robotaxis-have-remote-drivers
on “AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents”Submitted A Third Strike for Waymo on Failed Quick Fixes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSafety reports can be misleading apparently - https://philkoopman.substack.com/p/debunking-tesla-safest-ca... Tesla gets high test scores, but real world results seem to differ - https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevebanker/2025/02/11/tesla-ag...
Comment linking /p/debunking-tesla-safest-car-on-the
on “Tesla is at risk of losing subsidies in Korea over widespread battery failures”Submitted Waymo: Lots happening, but nothing has changed as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt’s been widely reported, and there were US Senate hearings about it. See e.g.: https://philkoopman.substack.com/p/waymo-tap-dances-about-re...
Comment linking /p/waymo-tap-dances-about-remote-drivers
on “TB/cm² at zero retention energy – atomic-scale memory on fluorographane”
