I have started to view "baseload" generation more in a negative sense (as in "can't be easily turned on/off").
Also the daytime/nighttime power consumption differs almost twice, so almost any solar added only smoothens out the difference.
Also the new offshore wind turbines (>10MW) offer some extraordinary capacity factors (~60%). Makes me wonder what these capacity factors could be if we could get to 20MW turbines.
There are also "partly electrified" possibility e.g. only 10% of track electrified (stations for example). Trains can recharge batteries or supercapacitators there from wire. There already are such existing light rail lines.
On the other hand YT is full of various Peppa Pig videos (inverted colors, mirror images and all kinds of other weird transformations). YouTube's algorithm apparently can't detect such copyright violations. And the really annoying part is that these videos often rank higher than the original ones.
According to Waymo most of the miles driven are simulated ( 2.7 billion miles in 2017). That's an order of magnitude more than actual miles (25K per day)[1]. And even the actual miles mostly don't have any user input.
Because of this I'm leaning towards thinking waymo isn't trying to mimic actual human input.
> Bike lanes (IMHO) have made traffic significantly worse because they're thoroughly underutilized and basically kill a lane of traffic (on the avenues at least).
Underutilized bike lanes is mostly an illusion. If a bicycle lane would be 100% utilized that would mean tens of thousands of people traveling each day. Probably equal to capacity of multiple car lanes.