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CEO killed at industrial site by worker operating forklift (12onyourside.com)
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I know someone hit by a forklift because the operator didn't slowdown for the sections going out of the dark zones. Forklift operators are careless all the time. If you simply give them a chance by not being 100% safe yourself it might be fatal. Forklift operators is, unfortunately, a job that needs go be taken by robots
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That's also why you wear high visibility vest and you let forklifts priority.
Once he was off the forklift, he “ran away” without checking on You. I don't think this is a matter of just fining the company. He should be subject to a criminal court.
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by forklift it can mean a "pallet fork" which is somewhat unlikly to kill someone, or monster that would squish a human like a bug. driver probably caught a flash,too late, felt the bump, glanced at the mess.....panicked the bigger machines will flatten a pickup truck, and because the operators sit so high up, the smaller gear have masts flying flags. the real irony would be if the forklift opperators phone call, was getting the gears from his supervisor for not bieng fast, enough.
Reminds me of Gabelstaplerfahrer Klaus (German): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDnOSW8cHjE
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Das ist schnell eskaliert.
"You was not the first person to lose his life during construction of the EV plant and its suppliers. In April 2023, Victor Gamboa died on the megasite after falling 60 feet to his death. Bryan County EMS records show in a 16-month period there were 53 calls for services at the site, including over a dozen for traumatic injuries. One of these injuries included another forklift accident, while one involved a worker being caught in a conveyor belt. In March, prior to You’s death, a construction worker on the site went to the hospital after being seriously injured in a pipe explosion. In May 2025, 27-year-old Allen Kowalski died on the HL-GA Battery construction site after a metal frame fell on him. OSHA has opened at least 15 investigations into incidents at the site, including You’s death and the March pipe explosion."
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And there will be more >The company was ultimately fined just under $10,000 for his death.
When it's the CEO or if it's about silicon valley companies. I don't remember ever reading on HN about accidents in the shoe factory or in the construction site.
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The same reason starving children in Sudan rarely make the news: It's "business as usual". Systemic issues make poor clickbait.
The combination of coincidences is striking: the CEO randomly decided to walk across the road, was wearing dark clothing, had an eyepatch on so he couldn't see one side of the road well, and was struck by a forklift while the operator was on the phone. (The operator then ran away without checking on the victim.)
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Classic Swiss Cheese model. How many times did someone cross the road, wearing dark clothing, with an eyepatch on, but the operator was paying attention and successfully avoided them.
It's not striking because a person who wears an eye patch and has a tendency towards dark clothing is stastically more likely to be involved in an accident where seeing and being seen are important.
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The original commentor found it striking.
Don't Become the Machine (armeet.bearblog.dev)
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The constant anti work agenda that is thrown in your face if you use almost any social media is so annoying. Have these anti work people ever considered that maybe some people actually like work and labelling them as slaves is insulting?
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I recommend reading the Happiness Files, by Arthur Brooks. It contain great advice, including on how to handle your professional life. But even more importantly, I feel the world would be a better place if more people followed its advice. A world full of happy people would be a world that runs far better.
I like to think I'm very much abreast of the bleeding edge because I feel this anxiety myself. At this point I can't code without LLMs because I just notice things that I could hand off to LLMs and they will do it faster and there's no reason for me to do it myself (although I still could). But the overall gain in efficiency is still a low single digit speedup. It's not a multi-OOM speedup as if e.g. doing 1000 long divisions by hand over many days versus letting a computer program do them in a split second. The "wall" that is irreducible complexity was never OOMs away from how modern pre-AI software development was done.
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For me the speed-up has not been in doing things I was already an expert at doing quickly with high quality. It has been in skipping the learning curve for adjacent things.
Autonomously navigating the real world: lessons from the PG&E outage (waymo.com)
> "the resulting congestion required law enforcement to manually manage intersections" Does anyone know if a Waymo vehicle will actually respond to a LEO giving directions at a dark intersection, or if it will just disregard them in favour of treating it as a 4 way stop?
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I suddenly find that I really want an answer to this as well because I'm now imagining what might ensue if one of these attempted to board a car ferry. Typically there's a sign "turn headlights off", you're expected to maintain something like 5 mph (the flow of traffic should never stop), and you get directed by a human to cross multiple lane markings often deviating from the path that the vehicle immediately in front of you took.
> a private company's equipment blocked the public roads That would be like every traffic incident ever? I don't think US has public cars or state-owned utilities.
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Typically people move aside for emergency vehicles
Seriously. People are outraged about the theoretical potential for human harm while there is a god damn constant death rate here that is 4x higher than every other western country. I mean really. I’m a self driving skeptic exactly because our roads are inherently dangerous. I’ve been outraged at Cruise and Tesla for hiding their safety shortcomings and acting in bad faith. Everything I’ve seen from Waymo has been exceptional… and I literally live in a damn neighborhood that lost power, and saw multiple stopped Waymos in the street. They failed-safe, not perfect, definitely needs improvement, but safe. At the same time we have video of a Tesla blowing through a blacked out intersection, and I saw a damn Muni bus do the same thing, as well as a least a dozen cars do the same damn thing. People need to be at least somewhat consistent in their arguments.
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Hey, I hear you. And I'm sad. Because I'd like to say that the right way is to: build infrastructure that promotes safe driving, and train drivers to show respect for other people on the road However, those are both non-starters in the US. So your answer, which comes down to "at least self-driving is better than those damn people" might be the one that actually works.
A human driver does not have to call a remote operator if the traffic lights are off. This situation does not require a sophistic argument that we are not autonomous because we rely on the sun. If a child walks alone to school without asking for directions, it walks autonomously. If it has to call its parents or uses a GPS phone, it is not autonomous. This is really not that hard.
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If it has to call its parents or uses a GPS phone, it is not autonomous. This is really not that hard. Obviously your point here highlights your pedantry: autonomy is not absolute. Despite being a mostly functioning and definitely autonomous human being, I sometimes have to call someone who knows better to ask for directions.
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Certainly. However it shouldn't be too difficult to imagine a scenario where the typical human driver would not know how to respond in a safe manner. Thus the presence of "uncertain how to respond" in a limited subset of scenarios remains consistent with the term "autonomous" as it appears in general usage. > If it has to call its parents or uses a GPS phone, it is not autonomous. You ought to be able to imagine plenty of scenarios where this would be the case (ie the child got lost) and yet clearly you still believe the child to qualify as autonomous. Analogously, the vehicles are not necessarily disqualified as being considered such despite being unable to independently navigate in some subset of scenarios.
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