Today, after some storms in the area, I was FSDing down the road and at an intersection that was totally powered down, FSD made as though to just roll through the intersection (as a handful of human driven cars were doing). Since I had no-one directly behind me, I disengaged with the brake to treat the intersection like a 4-way stop, and hit the "[Critical]" button for the FSD team. A couple of hours later, I checked with Grok about Alabama law as regards to powered down intersections and got a surprise! ALDOT recommends treating such intersections as all-way-stops, but in truth they legally should be treated as simply uncontrolled intersections, which is another beast altogether. In the specific situation I was in, FSD would have been fine rolling through the intersection as it had obviously intended, as were the human drivers in the other cars on the road with me. Live and learn. Note that other states may have different laws concerning unpowered traffic lights.

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Claims Denied is back for a new season! Thrilled to kick it off with @Will_Johnson, co-founder and CEO of AI startup @GydeInc ( I drove down from Dallas to Austin to sit in-studio with Will, who was 17 months post-incorporation at the time, with a decade at @OscarHealth behind him. Will brought a thesis I hadn't heard anyone articulate this cleanly: Healthcare's real front door isn't the carrier or the PCP. It's the broker, and there are fewer of them every year while the job gets harder every year. We get into why Will thinks commission rates stay flat while ACA premiums rip 14%, why an AI founder calls himself "a huge software bear," why roll-up is a banned word inside his own M&A shop, and the Capstone deal he thought was dead until a February coffee in Austin. Healthcare keeps trying to go around the broker. This episode makes the case for going through them. Check out this highlight video and get the full conversation at the links below: Listen to the full episode on Apple: Listen to the full episode on Spotify: Watch on YouTube:

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