🏛️ Blue cities ban or license-cap robotaxis
The anti-tech/labor backlash hits autonomy next: New York, Boston and DC ban Waymos outright or throttle them with license regimes, slowing the robotaxi rollout in exactly the densest markets.
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CONVICTION
peaked 30.6 EMBER
EMBER
band
▼ SHORT TSLA
expression · bearish politics-market
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moved yet?
days to scoring · born 2026-04-17 (E269) → 2027-04-17
IS THIS A TRADE?
🚫 Not a trade: conviction 20.3, ember.
⚠ CONFLICTING IDEAS ON THE SAME TICKER
— the board is arguing with itself; net it out (ticker view →)
GOOGL ·
Anthropic IPO (~Oct 2026) is attractively priced at $1.5-2T
LONG
WATCH 61.3
← stronger than this idea (20.3)
GOOGL ·
Own AWS, Azure and GCP and nothing else — the clouds capture the AI application dollars
LONG
WATCH 47.9
← stronger than this idea (20.3)
GOOGL ·
Frontier AI labs keep durable premium pricing (not commoditized)
LONG
EMBER 37.7
← stronger than this idea (20.3)
GOOGL ·
Personal AI agents: Google's data moat wins the form factor
LONG
EMBER 22.9
← stronger than this idea (20.3)
other ideas on the same ticker, same direction: ChatGPT takes Google search share and the market starts pricing the decay 21 (GOOGL) · Tort floodgates open on social media 20 (GOOGL) · Meta's AI assistant takes ten points of search share from Google 6 (GOOGL)
⚔ Rivals
competing claims on the same profit pool: a support there is a headwind here
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Tesla's second act: AI5 + energy + CyberCab
WATCH 59
▲ BULLISH
Robotaxi bans and licence caps hit the CyberCab leg of Tesla's second act.
Conviction timeline
bands: green ≥ 65 · watch ≥ 45 · ember ≥ 15
Plays vs SPY · % since first mention (2026-04-17)
Plays
Mention log newest first
Jason
politics-market 49% · n=61
· E286 (2026-08-21) · explicit_prediction · strength 2
▶ 35:08
SUPPORT
“go? It goes up into the cloud and then comes back down into Silicon Valley, polarizing more wealth. And that's where ... I will predict it now, they're going to ban Waymos in New York, Boston, DC, and they're going to limit them with licenses.”
Travis Kalanick
(regular guest ×1.0)
no politics-market track record
· E269 (2026-04-17) · sentiment · strength 2
▶ 38:22
SUPPORT
“we should watch for this in the autonomous car space too. Cities may get cute and start doing things like that. And what they did on scooters, they could do on cars. ... New York is literally doing this right now.”
Who built this conviction
each voice's total push on the score, in conviction points across every mention — supports and opposes · share = % of all mention-driven movement
⏳ decay drained -19.8 over the idea's life — that's time passing, attributed to no one
Score events
| episode | kind | Δ | after | note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| E269 2026-04-17 | init | +20.0 | 20.0 | E269 born by Travis Kalanick (sentiment x2) |
| E270 2026-04-24 | decay | -0.8 | 19.2 | E270 silent |
| E271 2026-05-01 | decay | -0.8 | 18.4 | E271 silent |
| E272 2026-05-08 | decay | -0.7 | 17.7 | E272 silent |
| E273 2026-05-15 | decay | -0.7 | 17.0 | E273 silent |
| E274 2026-05-22 | decay | -0.7 | 16.3 | E274 silent |
| E275 2026-05-29 | decay | -0.7 | 15.7 | E275 silent |
| E276 2026-06-13 | decay | -0.6 | 15.0 | E276 silent |
| E277 2026-06-19 | decay | -0.6 | 14.4 | E277 silent |
| E278 2026-06-26 | decay | -0.6 | 13.9 | E278 silent |
| E279 2026-07-03 | decay | -0.6 | 13.3 | E279 silent |
| E280 2026-07-11 | decay | -0.5 | 12.8 | E280 silent |
| E281 2026-07-18 | decay | -0.5 | 12.3 | E281 silent |
| E282 2026-07-24 | decay | -0.5 | 11.8 | E282 silent |
| E283 2026-07-31 | decay | -0.5 | 11.3 | E283 silent |
| E284 2026-08-08 | decay | -0.5 | 10.8 | E284 silent |
| E285 2026-08-14 | decay | -0.4 | 10.4 | E285 silent |
| E286 2026-08-21 | reinforce | +20.2 | 30.6 | E286 Jason support x2 (new voice) |
| E287 2026-08-29 | decay | -1.2 | 29.3 | E287 silent |
| E288 2026-09-04 | decay | -1.2 | 28.2 | E288 silent |
| E289 2026-09-11 | decay | -1.1 | 27.0 | E289 silent |
| E290 2026-09-26 | decay | -1.1 | 26.0 | E290 silent |
| E291 2026-10-02 | decay | -1.0 | 24.9 | E291 silent |
| E292 2026-10-10 | decay | -1.0 | 23.9 | E292 silent |
| E293 2026-10-17 | decay | -1.0 | 23.0 | E293 silent |
| E294 2026-10-23 | decay | -0.9 | 22.1 | E294 silent |
| E295 2026-10-30 | decay | -0.9 | 21.2 | E295 silent |
| E296 2026-11-07 | decay | -0.8 | 20.3 | E296 silent |