Zoox and Its $800M Robo Taxi Dream [video]

Re:Zoox and Its $800M Robo Taxi Dream [video] by dfischer on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @08:44PM (#17554780)

> The pair have mastered the hyperbolic vernacular of the Silicon Valley startup scene. Text running around the wheel wells of the Zoox vehicles reads, “Infinity is enough,” a phrase the company has trademarked. Kentley-Klay’s own name is another invention. He was born Tim Kentley and adopted the Klay. “I have added Klay to my surname, as I find I just love making things and [sic] is a big part of me,” he wrote to the Zoox employees in 2013. “So, clay, or mud, is the primal aspect of this spirit, and ‘K’lay is a word play on that to keep the K in the mix of the evolving family name.”

This... hubris hurts when it's not in the show Silicon Valley. At least the show hurts good.

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Re:Zoox and Its $800M Robo Taxi Dream [video] by duxup on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @10:37PM (#17555207)

If I worked there I would feel the urge to urgently find a like minded employee to talk to just so I'd feel better knowing that someone else thought it was absurd.

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Re:Zoox and Its $800M Robo Taxi Dream [video] by Edmond on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @09:02PM (#17554851)

you can add "hype speak" to that hyperbolic vernacular: https://blog.codesolvent.com/2016/10/hype-on-hacknews-and-si...

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