Browsing: Self-Driving Cars

Pete Hegseth’s State of the Force address ordered a new four-star command for drones and autonomy, a 20% cut to generals and admirals by January 2027, and a future-warfare review led by Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich. The diagnosis is sound. The execution is the problem.

Noise cameras pair an array of microphones with an automated plate reader, and at least ten US jurisdictions have deployed or piloted one. New York alone logged 15,994 noise events in a single year. The minimum fine there is $800.

Two trailers wearing Nvidia and PlusAI logos were taken from a Newark, California warehouse. The thieves opened the doors half a mile later and found 20 tons of test ballast. The trailers were back the same day.

New York is putting 17 app-controlled public restrooms on its streets under a $4 million pilot. They are clean, solar powered and free. They also give you 10 minutes before the door slides open by itself.

Tesla opened paid Cybercab rides in Austin using a two seat car with no steering wheel or pedals. Hours earlier, NHTSA opened an audit query into how Tesla certified the vehicle as road legal in the first place.

California’s DMV has issued its first heavy-duty autonomous vehicle testing permits to Aurora and Kodiak, and trucks are already on public roads. The permits come with a safety driver, a speed limit rule, and a lawsuit filed eight days earlier.

Elon Musk’s Tesla pay package runs on 12 tranches of milestones stretching to 2035. A change-of-control clause buried on page five could collapse all of it into a single transaction, and analysts put the payday at roughly $824 billion. Here is how it would work, and why the odds are still against it.

Is Waymo cheaper than Uber in 2026? Real pricing data on fares, tipping, surge, and wait times across Phoenix, SF, LA, Austin, Atlanta and more.