Solid roundup of Berlin's infrastructure chaos right now. The bit about autonomous buses replacing 200k cars feels overly ambitous given how the city can't even handle gravel distribution consistently. Saw firsthand during last week's strike how quickly car-sharing networks get overwhelmed. BVG's pilot project comment seems spot-on forsomeone who's watched Berlin tech initiatives stall repeatedly.
Nice Factoid. I predict the following on these autonomous vehicles: no 360 cams due to our old friend Datenschutz and that will just invite the vandals and strongly principled people to ruin these. Might even find one in Landwehrkanal at some point!
And it will be yet another grand failure of our masters of poor system design; a failure to do good use case analysis before implementing the project. Nope. Egomaniacs come first, folks!
I could imagine other places that need strikes and de-ICE-ing. You mentioned Ukraine without highlighting Ukraine-based fashion designers at Berlin Fashion Week events, but I will mention them in one of my upcoming posts. Thanks for another comprehensive and thoughtful round-up of Berlin and European topics in this ice cold winter 2026.
Solid roundup of Berlin's infrastructure chaos right now. The bit about autonomous buses replacing 200k cars feels overly ambitous given how the city can't even handle gravel distribution consistently. Saw firsthand during last week's strike how quickly car-sharing networks get overwhelmed. BVG's pilot project comment seems spot-on forsomeone who's watched Berlin tech initiatives stall repeatedly.
Nice Factoid. I predict the following on these autonomous vehicles: no 360 cams due to our old friend Datenschutz and that will just invite the vandals and strongly principled people to ruin these. Might even find one in Landwehrkanal at some point!
And it will be yet another grand failure of our masters of poor system design; a failure to do good use case analysis before implementing the project. Nope. Egomaniacs come first, folks!
I could imagine other places that need strikes and de-ICE-ing. You mentioned Ukraine without highlighting Ukraine-based fashion designers at Berlin Fashion Week events, but I will mention them in one of my upcoming posts. Thanks for another comprehensive and thoughtful round-up of Berlin and European topics in this ice cold winter 2026.