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Ready for unsupervised FSD in 26 days for Austin cybertaxis, DEFINITELY.

In what can only be described as the world's fastest off-road DNF, a Tesla Cybertruck met its untimely end in the parking lot of The King of Hammers… before the race even started.

The kicker? Practically the same exact thing happened last year.

The Polish armed forces are training citizen volunteers how to be armed partisans, firing rifles and donning gas masks.

That's... not great. The program is apparently popular, so they are expanding its capacity so that every adult male receives the training.

That makes 10 arson attacks in just the first half of March. Well, suspected arson/gun attacks.

Wild! I can't think of an automotive brand sparking such vigorous and violent backlash in living memory. The Hummer backlash seems quaint and mild by comparison.

"It does what no other truck can do" is true, if you count bursting into flames at unprecedented rates as a feature.

We’re seeing another sticky situation develop, after Tesla recalled 46,096 Cybertrucks to stop them from falling apart because the stainless steel panels are held on with the wrong glue. This time, it’s the Cybertruck’s off-road light bar that’s flinging itself off at highway speeds. Incredibly, the light bar is also glued in place.

Recall when?

We wondered what Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai meant when he said on their earnings call last Thursday that for Waymos, “there is future optionality for personal ownership.”

Well, we only had to wait a minute to find out. Waymo announced today that they’re developing autonomous technology with a little automotive manufacturer you may have heard of: Toyota.

Tucked into the announcement, Waymo also plans to release a generalizable autonomous driving system for any given vehicle. Read our full analysis!

In a major policy shift, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced that vehicles with 85% or more domestic content will be fully exempt from new tariffs on automobiles. That’s a steep threshold, and as of today, there’s only one automaker that qualifies for the exemption: Tesla.

From the last earnings call in 2024, Elon discussing bus-lanes:

Like, bus lanes in China are one of our biggest challenges in making FSD work in China is their bus lanes are very complicated. And there's like literally like hours of the day that you're allowed to be there and not be there.

And then if you accidentally go in at bus lane at the wrong time, you get an automatic ticket instantly... Anyway, we'll get this solved.

Wait, what do you mean - this isn't already solved? Tons of markets have time-controlled bus lanes, including American cities where FSD is fully operational.

Turns out, nope! Videos of FSD ignoring bus-only lanes are easy to find.

I feel bad for the bus drivers in Austin who will be sharing their lane with Tesla's autonomous taxi fleet in a couple weeks...

Yes, the pickup truck that is shaped like a low-effort Pinewood Derby car will definitely be safer for pedestrians, that totally scans. /s

In a highly scientific straw poll of the folks over at Ask Car Guys, pickup truck drivers voted on their pick for the “Worst Pickup Truck of All Time.” Take a look, it wasn’t even close.

(I CAN'T BELIEVE THERE IS CYBERSTUCK ON LEMMY AND NOBODY TOLD ME. AW, HELL, IT'S ON NOW )

Nothing brings out the best in people like competition. And nothing brings out the most chaotic competitive energy possible like putting 76 Nissan Altimas on a track at the same time, calling it a race, and telling them to have at it.

What could possibly go wrong? Spoilers: absolutely everything.