Tootfinder

I learned something new today. #LIDAR can damage the CMOS in digital cameras.
https://www.carscoops.com/2025/05/dont-point-your-phone-at-these-c…

Apple CarPlay Ultra hands-on: currently exclusive to Aston Martin, enhances center console integration, works smoothly with driver assist systems, and more (Michael Teo Van Runkle/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/07/everything-w…

Everything we learned from a week with Apple CarPlay Ultra
CarPlay Ultra takes over the main instrument display as well as the infotainment.

I learned something new today. #LIDAR can damage the CMOS in digital cameras.
https://www.carscoops.com/2025/05/dont-point-your-phone-at-these-c…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever:
🎵 Cars In Space
#RollingBlackoutsCoastalFever
https://rollingblackoutscoastalfever.bandcamp.com/track/cars-in-space
https://open.spotify.com/track/5lACqAPUAL5MrCdmsVfAVX

“I just hope that when they consider airstrikes on western Tehran and other residential cities that they consider the fact that a lot of people don’t have cars anymore, after 40 years of sanctions,” the man said.
“A lot of people don’t have cars or the means to leave. So it’s not as easy as just telling people to get up and go.”
Of an estimated 400,000 Iranian-born immigrants living in the United States,
more than a third live in the Los Angeles region.
Many live in th…

In ‘Tehrangeles,’ Iranian Americans Anxiously Watch War Unfold From Afar
The Los Angeles area is home to the biggest diaspora of Iranians. The growing war between Iran and Israel has rattled this tight-knit community.

Huge, untapped markets for things I KNOW people would buy:
*Decent vegetarian fast food
*Cars made like older cars, without all the computer crap

Life on Different Paths III🚶🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️
生活诸多路径 III🚶🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️FOMAPAN Action 400
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

Somehow we made this part of the Queensboro Bridge worse. This is a 3-4ft wide two-way bike lane. There's so much wrong with this, from the metal manhole cover taking up almost the entire width of the bike lane, to the MUTCD-violating usage of sharrows, to those shitty rumble strip/speed bump things THAT ARE LOOSE.
Wtaf! #bikeNYC
@…

Waymo applied for a NYC permit to test its cars with safety drivers and plans to start collecting mapping data with manually driven cars in Manhattan in July (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/689093/waymo-nyc-permit…

Waymo’s robotaxis are coming back to New York City
Waymo applied for a permit to test autonomous vehicles with safety drivers in New York City. And it hopes it can change the state law to allow it to operate fully driverless.

These reports from people in the US that voted for Trump and are now startled that ICE deported their friends and colleagues up to “Trump voter left in tears after ICE detained their spouse”: we should not think most of them will generalize. For them it is just the _wrong_ people who get detained, as they did think others would get arrested, but not many of them will conclude that the idea of taking people from the streets in black cars is wrong in general, that everyone should have rights, …

EU to hit US aircraft, cars and food in latest retaliatory strike (Camille Gijs/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-to-hit-us-aircraft-cars-and-food-in-latest-retaliatory-strike/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p128#a250714p128

I feel like computers are getting more like cars, or... how I view cars.
I do not need/want to spend a ton of money to get everything computerized car with ever sensor and camera and screen there is because I just don't think I need it or it's worth it for how much I drive.
I get that some people want that, and should probably have it, but I've got like 35 years of driving experience and I think I do okay.

Anyone (possibly from Malta) who knows the exact location and name of this street in St. Julian's or Sliema? I took this photo in December 2000 somewhere between Pjazza Balluta (St. Julian's) and Triq Ix-Xatt (Sliema).
https://kamafotos.nl/2000/12/21/malta-

This is a comment I left on this video: #retrocomputing

Waymos, like all drivers, treat the bike lane as buffer zone. it was only a matter of time before somebody got hurt https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/06/10/san-francisco-bicyclist-crash-waymo/

San Francisco bicyclist sues over crash involving 2 Waymo cars
As the cyclist attempted to avoid one car’s open door, a second Waymo car reportedly crossed into the bike lane.

Building Automotive Security on Internet Standards: An Integration of DNSSEC, DANE, and DANCE to Authenticate and Authorize In-Car Services
Timo Salomon, Mehmet Mueller, Philipp Meyer, Thomas C. Schmidt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13261

Building Automotive Security on Internet Standards: An Integration of DNSSEC, DANE, and DANCE to Authenticate and Authorize In-Car Services
The automotive industry is undergoing a software-as-a-service transformation that enables software-defined functions and post-sale updates via cloud and vehicle-to-everything communication. Connectivity in cars introduces significant security challenges, as remote attacks on vehicles have become increasingly prevalent. Current automotive designs call for security solutions that address the entire lifetime of a vehicle. In this paper, we propose to authenticate and authorize in-vehicle services …

I didn't expect a future where self-driving electric cars would spew nazi rants like somebody's crazy uncle.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2025/07/10/elon-musk-grok-tesla-vehicles/84535654007/

What can you say.
#perfection #cars #photography

"The [Tesla] owners are demanding that their lease contracts be terminated and reimbursed for the accrued legal costs."
☑️ Tesla Drivers Sue Elon Musk for Turning Their Cars Into "Extreme" Right-Wing Symbols
https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-dr

Tesla Drivers Sue Elon Musk for Turning Their Cars Into "Extreme" Right-Wing Symbols
Tesla drivers in France are suing Elon Musk's EV maker for turning their vehicles into what they characterize as "extreme-right" symbols.

Minimizing Structural Vibrations via Guided Flow Matching Design Optimization
Jan van Delden, Julius Schultz, Sebastian Rothe, Christian Libner, Sabine C. Langer, Timo L\"uddecke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15263

Minimizing Structural Vibrations via Guided Flow Matching Design Optimization
Structural vibrations are a source of unwanted noise in engineering systems like cars, trains or airplanes. Minimizing these vibrations is crucial for improving passenger comfort. This work presents a novel design optimization approach based on guided flow matching for reducing vibrations by placing beadings (indentations) in plate-like structures. Our method integrates a generative flow matching model and a surrogate model trained to predict structural vibrations. During the generation process…

#carshow #cars #ClassicCars people in the Bay Area who would like to get a taste of Monterey Car week but it’s too expensive to find places to stay, there’s a new event on Friday 15th August. Drive dow…

The Paddock — International Car Week

🚬 Cars Are Caught in an Endless Cycle of Bigger Screens Nobody Really Likes
https://www.thedrive.com/news/cars-are-caught-in-an-endless-cycle-of-bigger-screens-nobody-really-likes

Cars Are Caught in an Endless Cycle of Bigger Screens Nobody Really Likes
J.D. Power's 2025 Initial Quality Study is out, and infotainment is once again the villain.

Articles like this remind me that #ferrari is a long way away from winning a championship. It's all about the BS around the #F1, not F1 racing itself.

‘I’m from the land of slow food and fast cars’ – Chef Massimo Bottura on taking over Ferrari’s famous Ristorante Cavallino | Formula 1®
“In my veins there’s balsamic vinegar, my muscles are parmigiano-reggiano, but in my DNA there’s a 12 cylinder engine,” he says.

This 👇 👇 👇
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/12/driverless-cars-pedestrians-second-class-citizens?CMP=share_btn_url

This 👇 👇 👇
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/12/driverless-cars-pedestrians-second-class-citizens?CMP=share_btn_url

"The rollout of driverless vehicles must not be an excuse to further diminish the role of the pedestrian in urban life."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/12/driverless-cars-pedestrians-second-class…

This ferry was designed for cars, not SUVs.

‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing | Tesla | The Guardian #Tesla
…

The CEO of Renault, who has publicly criticised EU rules for making cars too expensive, is set to head the luxury group Kering (owner of Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent).
From: @…
https://

Mobility to Campus -- a Framework to Evaluate and Compare Different Mobility Modes
Helena Fehler, Marco Pruckner, Marie Schmidt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13574

Mobility to Campus -- a Framework to Evaluate and Compare Different Mobility Modes
The transport sector accounts for about 20% of German CO2 emissions, with commuter traffic contributing a significant part. Particularly in rural areas, where public transport is inconvenient to use, private cars are a common choice for commuting and most commuters travel alone in their cars. Consolidation of some of these trips has the potential to decrease CO2 emissions and could be achieved, e.g., by offering ridesharing (commuters with similar origin-destination pairs share a car) or ridepo…

Thing my unifi thinks are cars: boxing bow and arrow toys against the trampoline
Things it thinks are not cars: a tractor.
Unifi stuff is pretty cool but the object detection is pretty weak.

The good news here is this guy was an aberration. We got a LOT of supportive honks from passing cars.

Indian capital bans fuel for old cars in anti-pollution bid #India

Indian capital bans fuel for old cars in anti-pollution bid
India's capital banned fuel sales to aging vehicles on Tuesday as authorities try to tackle the sprawling megacity's hazardous air pollution.

«As a result, there’s been some speculation that the [Waymo] cars were burned to destroy evidence. There’s likely more to it than that—and that the cars weren’t torched to destroy evidence as much to punish collaborators.»
Speaking of the Zeitgeist about working with big tech. 😁
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-weaponization-of-waymo

I don't think that the next door neighbor's car has moved more than once in the past 12 months (she had a pretty horrific downturn in her health and won't be able to drive anytime soon). I feel bad for that fuel system. Burner cars have a tendency to have fluids and rubber bits go bad pretty quickly.

¿Alguien (posiblemente de Malta) que conozca la ubicación exacta y el nombre de esta calle en St. Julian's o Sliema? Tomé esta foto en diciembre de 2000 en algún lugar entre Pjazza Balluta (St. Julian's) y Triq Ix-Xatt (Sliema).
https://kamafotos.nl/2000/12/21/malta-

I dreamt last night that I was in Glasgow for a concert and a massive power failure occurred. There was no electricity and all electronics were fried - radio, phones, internet, nothing working except some very old cars with no electronic systems.
We heard rumours that either the Earth had been hit by an EMP pulse from a cosmic event, or maybe this was more local and was caused by a weapon of some kind.
Police were out on horseback telling us to stay calm but had no info. /1

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
The Cars:
🎵 Just What I Needed
#TheCars
https://butterfactory.bandcamp.com/track/the-cars-just-what-i-needed-butter-factory-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/4alHo6RGd0D3OUbTPExTHN

Preference-restricted parking functions
Jasper Bown, Peter Kagey, Alan Kappler, Michael E. Orrison, Jayden Thadani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11701 https:/…

Preference-restricted parking functions
A parking function is a function $π:[n]\to [n]$ whose $i$th-smallest output is at most $i,$ corresponding to a parking procedure for $n$ cars on a one-way street. We refine this concept by introducing preference-restricted parking functions, which are parking functions with codomain restricted to some $S\subseteq[n]$. Particular choices of $S$ yield new combinatorial interpretations of previous results about variant parking procedures, and new results too. In particular we consider prime parki…

EU electric car sales in April up 34% compared to last year, but Tesla sales *down* 53%, an even stronger fall than in the first quarter of the year.
https://www.electrive.com/2025/05/27/electric-cars-overtake-diesel-in-new-eu-veh…

Electric cars overtake diesel in new EU vehicle registrations - electrive.com
According to the industry association ACEA, new registrations of electric cars in the EU rose by 26 per cent year-on-year to just under 560,000 units in the

SiriusXM launches SiriusXM Play, its first ad-supported subscription plan, currently available on a limited basis for less than $7 per month (Lillian Rizzo/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/15/sirius-bets-on-advertising-to-capture-new-listeners.html

Sirius, long commercial-free in cars, is betting on advertising to capture new listeners
SiriusXM, long known as a commercial-free satellite option for car radios, is betting an ad-supported option can boost its business.

Ron DeSantis Says Floridians Have Right to Hit Protesters With Cars (Sophie Clark/Newsweek)
https://www.newsweek.com/ron-desantis-says-floridians-have-right-hit-protesters-cars-2084418
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p64#a250612p64

Last weekend we drove through Pennsylvania on the way to Maryland and found a Dandy Mini Mart built into an old mansion
#dandy #photo #photography

Meta launches V-JEPA 2, an open-source AI "world model" to understand and predict 3D environments and object movements, to help robotics and self-driving cars (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/11/meta-launc

Meta launches AI 'world model' to advance robotics, self-driving cars
Meta on Wednesday announced it's rolling out a new AI "world model" that can better understand the 3D environment and movements of physical objects.

At least 500 , maybe as many as 1,500 #NoKings protesters in Jackson Wyoming (I’m bad at estimating crowds).
Collette and I spent an hour while on vacation to let our voices be heard.
I didn’t have permission to post photos, but I was thrilled to see at least 5 protesters with American flags! It’s our flag too!

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has said Floridians have a right to hit protesters with their car if they need to "flee for your safety."
DeSantis was speaking on The Rubin Report on Wednesday when he said:
"We also have a policy that if you're driving on one of those streets and a mob comes and surrounds your vehicle,
and threatens you, you have a right to flee for your safety.
"And so if you drive off and you hit one of these people,
tha…

Ron DeSantis Says Floridians Have Right to Hit Protesters With Cars
"That's their fault for impinging on you," Florida's governor said.

Urban Composition V 🫟
都市构图 V 🫟
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

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Folgen Sie dem Link PayPal.Me/dingsterdingster und geben Sie den Betrag ein. Es ist bequem und sicher. Sie haben noch kein PayPal-Konto? Kein Problem.

with the bar for safe bike infrastructure as low as it is, it's hard to strike the right balance after a project between "hooray! it's so much better!" and "this, that, and the other thing still suck."
Streetsblog SF often errs on the latter side... I'm happier than ever with #ValenciaStreet, but their critiques are not wrong.

SFMTA Leaves Valencia Bike Lanes Unfinished - Streetsblog San Francisco
The center-running lane is long gone and some finishing touches are coming to the parking-protected section from 15th to 23rd, but the lack of concrete infrastructure remains problematic. And then there's the last four blocks from 23rd to Cesar Chavez, which is still just a striped lane wedged between parked cars and moving traffic.

Running cars on E-Fuels, made with CO2 from the air and green Hydrogen?🚗⛽🌿⚡
E-Fuels, so the story goes, could allow using existing cars and infrastructure like gas stations. However, E-Fuels are extremely inefficient.
In 2022, Siemens Energy, Porsche, and the Chilean company HIF inaugurated the Haru Oni pilot plant in Chile's windy Magallanes region, which turns CO2 and Hydrogen into Methanol and small amounts of Gasoline. How's it going? 🧵

What's up with the Production of E-Fuels in Chile?
In 2022, Siemens Energy, Porsche, and HIF inaugurated a pilot plant for the production of E-Methanol and E-Gasoline in southern Chile. The Haru Oni plant was intended to be just the beginning — with plans for large-scale production just a few years later. However, it does not look like that will ever happen.

After some neighbors say they want to be able to drive cars in cycletrack, DC govt replaces it with painted lanes & says basis for action was aesthetics of flexposts.
If the problem is really that flexposts don't look nice, why not replace them with decorative bollards?
https://wapo.st/4dXmJY1

D.C. is removing bike lane barriers for the first time, calling them ugly
The move comes as political leaders across the country begin reversing and undoing bike lane plans.

The cars are going to be alright: Examining micromobility infrastructure space allocation and potential improvement scenarios in Montréal
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950105925000154

Yep. A lot of very wet, very dedicated car people here today. I'm already completely soaked to the skin, but hoping it clears up later.

Wow, setting electric cars with 90kWh batteries on fire in the middle of a crowd is seriously fucking bad karma.

Who wouldn’t want the people who brought us liquid glass to also design our car dashboard.
“Apple’s push to take over the dashboard resisted by car makers”
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/06/apples-push-to-take-over-the-da…

Apple’s push to take over the dashboard resisted by car makers
Mercedes, Audi, and Volvo all say they have no plans to support CarPlay Ultra.

Building Automotive Security on Internet Standards: An Integration of DNSSEC, DANE, and DANCE to Authenticate and Authorize In-Car Services
Timo Salomon, Mehmet Mueller, Philipp Meyer, Thomas C. Schmidt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13261

Building Automotive Security on Internet Standards: An Integration of DNSSEC, DANE, and DANCE to Authenticate and Authorize In-Car Services
The automotive industry is undergoing a software-as-a-service transformation that enables software-defined functions and post-sale updates via cloud and vehicle-to-everything communication. Connectivity in cars introduces significant security challenges, as remote attacks on vehicles have become increasingly prevalent. Current automotive designs call for security solutions that address the entire lifetime of a vehicle. In this paper, we propose to authenticate and authorize in-vehicle services …

Wreckfest: a bit squeezed
I'm not sure I'm going to be able to get a lot from the shops in my Supervan any more. I am stuck on an event in Wreckfest where I have to drive a Robin Reliant, and everyone else has four wheel cars which can actually take a corner. It's a four-race series and I've managed to come third on the first race, and then get completely wrecked on the second. I'm sure I'm missing something; this isn't even that far through the game.
…

And just to be 100% clear, #LosAngeles is nailing it. Massive peaceful protests are great. That's absolutely unequivocally a good thing. So are burning cop cars. Diversity of tactics is critical.
Escalating radically at a protest with kids and grandmas is a shit thing to do. Don't do that unless it's absolutely necessary. Having kids and grandmas out protesting is important. Having them peacefully block vehicles with their bodies or occupy ICE facilitates *is* a strong thing. That is real. That's not virtue signaling, it does something... And sometimes that isn't enough. Sometimes things *need* to escalate to save people.
Diversity is good. Don't break the diversity of tactics *either way*. #LA seems to be doing a pretty good job right now or holding that balance. I hope to see more of that in every city.

The $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen https://www.theverge.com/electric-cars/655527/slate-electric-truck-price-paint-radio-bezos

Still, I wouldn’t want to go after these things •too• hard — certainly no harder than cars and trucks (including UPS trucks!) that use bike lanes as a stopping lane for deliveries and pickups. Harangue those people first if you have haranguing energy to spare.

the EU "Stop Killing Games" initiative is doing a great job for video games. We need something the same for home automation devices and cars and stuff:
#stopkillinggames #consumerrights #eol

Belkin is ending support for nearly all its Wemo smart home devices
Wemo hardware will stop working in January 2026 unless it’s been set up in Apple HomeKit. Belkin has announced that it’s made the “difficult decision” to end support for almost its entire line of Wemo smart home devices from January 31st, 2026. The only models that will continue to work after that …

escape to a frothing seaside of the mind with last night's frow show on @…. https://wfmu.org/playlists/JJ/250708

I finally got a new car today after being without one for over 3 months.
Also, it's the first time I've owned a car with Apple CarPlay... wow, I've been missing out!
#Cars

Did you ever find surprises in old folders?
#photography #cars #carspotting

Vaseline. Vaseline (or, indeed, lip balm) on the lenses works a treat. Causes no lasting damage but places the vehicle out of use for some time. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/10/uber-uk-trial-of-self…

Cranky to see people posting ai images of the LA crisis
Pretty sure that there are a lot of great pictures of the Waymo cars on fire that *aren't* generated slop

The collapse of the volume of cars in London is pretty boggling, but even moreso to me, a person who was in London recently and couldn’t get over how jammed the streets were with cars.
What must it have been like before the reduction?
https://masto.ai/@bovine3dom/114590440884405052

I hit 80 miles on my bike this month (yay!) but this morning was weird! I'm typically very careful, but three cars came way too close to me, or made bad turns near me.
I got home and realized I forgot to turn on my lights before I rode! Maybe lights really do make a huge difference.
#bikeTooter #bike

Doing errands around (redacted) County this morning and saw a fair number of utterly blacked out SUVs (including illegally tinted windshields) with no markings of any kind save civilian California plates. External lights on the A-pillars.
Maybe CHP just added several boatloads of unmarked squad cars. Yeah, maybe that's it.

"Among the largest markets, the highest increase in BEV registrations occurred in Italy, Czechia, and Poland, where registrations increased 110%, 109%, and 103%"
https://theicct.org/publication/european-market-monitor-cars-and-vans-march-2025…

European Market Monitor: Cars and vans (March 2025) - International Council on Clean Transportation
European market monitor for cars and vans offers data on new registrations and estimates of manufacturers’ compliance with CO2 emission targets in February 2025.

While Poland, UK and USA have "auditors" who are filming in public to provoke people doing illegal things like cops forbidding them doing legal stuff, Germany has the Anzeigemeister - dude who's taking pictures of illegally parked cars so he can send them to police.
This country is not the same as others.

"EV battery recycling key to easing future lithium supply constraints, modeling study shows"
#EV #ElectricVehicle #Cars

EV battery recycling key to easing future lithium supply constraints, modeling study shows
Lightweight, powerful lithium-ion batteries are crucial for the transition to electric vehicles, and global demand for lithium is set to grow rapidly over the next 25 years. A new analysis from the University of California, Davis, published May 29 in Nature Sustainability, looks at how new mining operations and battery recycling could meet that demand. Recycling could play a big role in easing supply constraints, the researchers found.

Les #RAP2025 c'est fini... C'était vraiment chouette. Place au traditionnel blues. Dix heures de route nous attendent, et au bout peut-être une aurore boréale 🤞
À l'année prochaine pour les #RAP2026 !
#StarParty

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#cars #Canada

Fahrradhelme sind ein Zeichen für unzureichende Verkehrspolitik.
Siehe @… in https://social.ainmosni.eu/@ainmosni/status…

Post by Daniël Franke , @ainmosni@ainmosni.eu
For all the people living in cities where cars are the most dominant form of urban transport: there is 0 need to wear a helmet in a city like Amsterdam. And as cycling is the main mode of transport for people ages 6 and up, for occasions ranging from commuting to school, to starting your honeymoon, ...

I think somebody spray-painted this Allium flower I caught in Minns Garden looking across Tower Road towards the Biotech building
#flower #bloomscrolling #ithaca

I biked on a street similar to this in Vancouver! Could tell from the younger trees on the outside that the cycle track was a recent addition. We can do this here too
https://mastodon.online/@BrentToderian/114808060180884076

Brent Toderian (@BrentToderian@mastodon.online)
Attached: 1 image This is really important. The main thing that makes it hard to achieve integrated nature and green in cities isn’t density of buildings or density of people — it's density of cars. And the more well-designed and integrated density of people & buildings you achieve, the fewer cars you need or want.

Trump Wants the U.S. to Manufacture Drones and Flying Cars (Samuel Larreal/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/technology/trump-executive-orders-drones-flying-cars
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p145#a250606p145

Politically driven "focus on special features over ensuring affordable housing money is stretched as far as possible" is one part of this, and same thing happens in transit:
* Electric buses don't work as well as electric cars, yet we make bus riders pay for electrification with less service, and don't require drivers to use electric cars.
* Fancy stops for "BRT" buses that offer infrequent service.
Etc Etc

These publicly funded homes for the poor cost $1.2 million each to build
Costs to house the poor are approaching, and sometimes exceeding, $1 million per unit in cities across the country, including D.C., L.A., and Chicago.

The US border is "open" the way that cities worldwide "ban" cars.

By “social infrastructure,” I mean norms and expectations: What is polite? What is acceptable? What is safe? Whose job is it to maintain which aspects of safety and courtesy?
So much of the tension around these questions right now is because we’re still living a world framed by “jaywalking” and its surrounding constellation — a term that was invented by the auto industry in the 1920s to absolve cars of responsibility for killing so many pedestrians, especially children.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Barry Can’t Swim:
🎵 Cars Pass by Like Childhood Sweethearts
#BarryCantSwim
https://barrycantswim.bandcamp.com/track/cars-pass-by-like-childhood-sweethearts
https://open.spotify.com/track/1qrIziSX4GwjlUMfmMhO3x

‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing | Tesla | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025…

Diesel, petrol and Tesla car sales down across Europe
Nobody wants to get their hands dirty.
https://www.electrive.com/2025/05/27/electric-cars-overtake-diesel-in-new-eu-vehicle-registrations/

Electric cars overtake diesel in new EU vehicle registrations - electrive.com
According to the industry association ACEA, new registrations of electric cars in the EU rose by 26 per cent year-on-year to just under 560,000 units in the

Waymo temporarily limits service in SF, Austin, and Atlanta, and stops service in LA, as US cities prepare for protests against federal immigration policies (Aarian Marshall/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/ahead-of-protests-waymo-adjusts…

Ahead of Protests, Waymo Scales Back Robotaxi Service Nationwide
A week after five robot cars were burned in Los Angeles, the Google sister company isn’t taking risks.

«So even though driverless cars nominally have nothing to do with law enforcement, police are treating them as though they are their own roving surveillance cameras.».
And by extension, protestors and other people start to view them as the state surveillance tools they are.
https://www.404media.co/waymo-pauses-service-in-downtown-la-neighborhood-where-theyre-getting-lit-on-fire/

"‘It’s a virtuous spiral, and it’s just beginning’: electric vehicles as mini power plants"
#EV #ElectricVehicles #Cars

‘It’s a virtuous spiral, and it’s just beginning’: electric vehicles as mini power plants - Positive News
The grid is struggling, and EVs add extra pressure. Thanks to their potential as energy storage plants, however, they could be part of the solution

Holy shit. RIP Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys.
https://apple.news/AT7WpoywsSn-xyB6AkkXstA

Brian Wilson, singer-songwriter who created the Beach Boys, dies at 82 — The Washington Post
His early hits — “Surfer Girl,” “I Get Around,” “All Summer Long,” “Help Me, Rhonda” and “California Girls” — evoked a fantasy world of fast cars, beautiful youth, eternal surf and sunshine on an immaculate beach.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Barry Can’t Swim:
🎵 Cars Pass by Like Childhood Sweethearts
#BarryCantSwim
https://barrycantswim.bandcamp.com/track/cars-pass-by-like-childhood-sweethearts
https://open.spotify.com/track/1qrIziSX4GwjlUMfmMhO3x

"The life-cycle emissions of BEVs in the European Union are estimated to be 73% lower than those of gasoline ICEVs."
#ICCT's latest report:
https://theicct.org/publica…

🥤 A Shocking Amount of People Say Car Cupholders Are ‘Difficult to Use’
https://www.thedrive.com/news/a-shocking-amount-of-people-say-car-cupholders-are-difficult-to-use

A Shocking Amount of People Say Car Cupholders Are 'Difficult to Use'
The car cupholder crisis must be solved.

Between robot cars and robot food delivery robots it seems the robots are basically spying on people for the cops...
DESTROY ALL ROBOTS BEFORE THEY DESTROY US!

There’s something deeply wrong with a society that watches people get snatched by masked men in unmarked cars & looks the other way.
Rep @kamlager-dove.house.gov, describes an alarming system of relocating detainees, making it nearly impossible for their families to find them or get legal counsel.
https://

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Cars:
🎵 Just What I Needed
#TheCars
https://deaddrift.bandcamp.com/track/the-cars-just-what-i-needed
https://open.spotify.com/track/4alHo6RGd0D3OUbTPExTHN

China has suspended almost all exports since April 4 of seven kinds of #rare #earth metals,
as well as very powerful magnets made from three of them.
The halt has caused increasingly severe shortages that threaten to close many factories in the United States and Europe.

What to Know About China’s Halt of Rare Earth Exports
Since early April, China has stopped almost all shipments of critical minerals that are needed for cars, robots, wind turbines, jet fighters and other technologies.

I'm now the proud owner of a 1979 Ford Thunderbird (my son paid for it but my name is on the title so it can be insured in my name)
#cars #ford #thunderbird

ICE leaves cars abandoned, lawn mowers running when it arrests workers: A new push to secure property (Salvador Hernandez/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-08/ice-abandonded-items
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p134#a250708p134

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Quality Used Cars:
🎵 Spiral of Lies
#QualityUsedCars
https://qualityusedcars.bandcamp.com/track/spiral-of-lies
https://open.spotify.com/track/6jPIMsIEsNU0LX31UOKdzL

On expected #V2G returns: “Given the Netherlands’ more strained grid, Faton believes savings will be even higher there.”
Tough bet in a country where grid operators provide no financial incentives to residential customers to shift demand, let alone support the local grid with V2G.

'Utrecht Energized' launched: How bidirectional charging is set to make the breakthrough - electrive.com
Bidirectional charging is often hailed as the holy grail of e-mobility. The batteries of electric cars are not only used for driving but can also power homes

Adam Dorr concluded that the current AI wave will not just convulse -- but obliterate the labour market by 2045.
What cars did to horses and carts, and electricity to gas lamps, and digital cameras to Kodak, are templates for the coming shock, he says.
“Technology has a new target in its crosshairs – and that’s us. That’s our labour.”
Some sectors will have an interregnum during which humans can work effectively alongside robots
– just like the period when chess gr…

June 8, 2025 -- Flatbed train cars carrying thousands of tanks rolled into Washington ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-8-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p11#a250609p11