Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

The realism, as some of us older than uh... some, is that Americans will swing from one type of transportation to the other based on gas prices, the economy and what's new that year. The companies that win for the moment are the ones that were behind on the last trend www.cnbc.com/2025/12/23/e...

This is wild. Why would a line like this be redacted: “Epstein also threatened harm to victims and helped release damaging stories about them to damage their credibility when they tried to go public with their stories of being trafficked and sexually abused.”

SCOOP: Flock left at least 60 of its AI-powered, people-tracking surveillance cameras exposed and livestreaming to the open internet. We tracked ourselves. The exposure highlights the power of these cameras and types of things they're tracking. Not just cars. www.404media.co/flock-expose...

Bari Weiss is really bad at her job, until you realize it's her job to be really bad at her job, in which case she is excellent at her job

Josh's story speaks to me not just because we've known each other for 20 years and he's occasionally been my boss, but so many of us tried to have a homecoming and then believed you couldn't go home again He persisted and it paid off www.newspress.com/2025/12/16/j...

One of my carpool friends when I was 6 had a 505 wagon and a Trooper II and I neglected to appreciate what a world I lived in then

German Big 3 arrogance is almost as bad as the American Big 2.333333333's

Tesla’s Cheap Model Y and Model 3 Aren’t Slowing Down Its Sliding Sales: Report https://gizmodo.com/teslas-cheap-model-y-and-model-3-arent-slowing-down-its-sliding-sales-report-2000699351

"I was going to be in a cubicle, I was going to drive a Saab, I was going to have that beautiful briefcase..." I'm two out of the three, Alex variety.com/2025/film/ne...

It's not just a garbage trend for Tesla, looking at the results from an overall view show bad news for EV sales as a whole. And all new vehicle sales at that gizmodo.com/teslas-cheap...

11317. Crumbs “The Gift of the Magpie” - An unaired ep of this sitcom that had Jane Curtin as the fresh out of the mental hospital mom to Fred Savage’s gay son. They also have Christmas in April. I can see why this didn’t last. It’s just okay. (C)

the people of this great republic yearn for locomotive transport

You heard it here first: Jacob Elordi tells @beccamford.bsky.social he'd rather kiss on the beach than talk about AI vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/frankenstein-jacob-elordi-euphoria-interview

Jeez -- apnews.com/article/arka...

Everyone who got pulled over is mad that they never stop for pedestrians at unmarked crosswalks and just got caught now. Wrong fight to pick with LAPD ktla.com/news/local-n...

Rivian Reveals New AI Assistant, Lidar, and Autonomous Driving Coming in 2026 https://gizmodo.com/rivian-reveals-new-ai-assistant-lidar-and-autonomous-driving-coming-in-2026-2000698658

You'd never know he was talking about his actual son.

EVs have been nothing new for Uber and some cities have been trying to push the need for all ride-hailing drivers to continue going electric in order to operate in certain areas gizmodo.com/uber-reporte...

Ford's been around for so long and has tried to isolate itself regionally, then globally, then diversify (Lincoln's move to Irvine, anyone?), and repeated those dance steps over again It's not a Detroit problem, an old company problem, it's more of a Ford crisis of conscience every few years

Many of us covering the EV industry predict 2026 will be a significant year in terms of product, policy and the health of many companies Rivian has predicted a big 2026 since last year and their announcements today set expectations even higher gizmodo.com/rivian-revea...

“an EV owner in Shenzhen, told Rest of World he earned 1,400 yuan ($197) in charging credits after leaving his car in a V2G-enabled parking lot for two days. The money he earned was enough to cover his charging costs for an entire year. The parking lot that Li used, however, was one where power..

"normal handshakes"

Yesterday, Mayor Karen Bass sent a letter to city council urging them to allocate $4.4 million to hire 410 LAPD officers. I wrote earlier about LAPD going over budget on hiring, w/o permission or identifying $ to cover the overages. Budget/finance committee was not happy.

Commenter who thinks every ICE car is the VW from "Sleeper"

There's a lot of necessary undoing of Stellantis' first plans here but the reversal also looks like a lot of short-term thinking that looks like heavier dependence on less fuel-efficient vehicles and fleet sales Dodge, Jeep, Peugeot, Opel have been there before www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

It feels very unfair to compare Cuomo-era climate plans with Hochul-era climate reality, while ignoring that the Cuomo-era reality was that 2 gigawatts of clean power came *off* the grid in one fell swoop at Indian Point – more than twice the solar/wind we have in total today!

Very comprehensive conversation about cars from China that didn't just talk about the U.S. but Europe and much of Asia, didn't just cover electric cars but gas-powered ones, included how trade policies affect climate policies and, well, it's almost a free-for-all now heatmap.news/podcast/shif...

Was this the plan all along?

OLD MEDIA MODEL: advertising NEW MEDIA MODEL: 12-part “my struggle” series about your breakup

Metro made Open Streets permanent but tied most funding to Olympics, World Cup. The decision ties popular programs like Ciclavia to upcoming major sporting events but advocates are hopeful the agency will free up funding for events outside that timeframe. lapublicpress.org/2025/12/metr...

Between this and being able to change messages at the front of the car you'll be able to express a lot of, um, feelings with the car (yeah, not my best work)

If I didn’t see this myself on Truth Social I’d assume it was some phishing site

Your monthly-or-whatever that Buick is very relevant in China but corporate and regulatory politics mean it's been dragging its feet here for years

No idea how this either saves money or gets the newscast out of the ratings dump but maybe CBS can fix its once-good, now-awful morning show. Not that I'm holding my breath variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Uber is now paring back #EV incentives for drivers + supporting some of the U.S. president's many attempts to eradicate environmental rules—as well as fighting against state-level policies it used to support. Good reporting from @benelgin.bsky.social on Bloomberg Green.

Congrats to re-elected Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller (D). This is the first, but it may not be the only electoral victory for someone who has appeared on PLURIBUS.

He comes off as so Tiimes New Roman

Under this new proposal, if you're a European who wants to visit New York City for a vacation, you now have to turn over a TON of information to the United States government, which they will keep forever. The days of just showing a passport will be long gone.

"'Long-term repeated use of a space can foster that sense of ownership, and change is jarring, especially for anyone who moved to a certain neighborhood or added an extra household car with the expectation that street parking would always be free'" www.latimes.com/california/s...

Fiat Will Sell Tiny EV in the U.S. With a 28 MPH Top Speed https://gizmodo.com/fiat-will-sell-tiny-ev-in-the-u-s-with-a-28-mph-top-speed-2000697415

Further proof in this saga of Aquila's arrogance in thinking NASA and USPS, which know at least a little about fleet logistics, wouldn't immediately pass on trying to get support for cars from a liquidated company

“The company is the largest renewable energy developer in the U.S., but it is leaning into natural gas to meet the growing power demand from data centers.”

Also #reigniteLA... are you kidding me 😵‍💫 In case you'd like to share your feedback directly www.instagram.com/p/DR-EdTDjbjP/

@davecolon.bsky.social: “MTA Still Won’t Embrace Open Gangway Subway Cars: The see-through cars have been standard across the globe for a generation, but to the MTA, it's still untested technology.” — nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/12/09/m...

Of course. Of course. www.axios.com/2025/12/08/j...

Trump’s Tiny Car Wish Isn’t The Way to Make Americans Want Smaller Cars https://gizmodo.com/trumps-tiny-car-wish-isnt-the-way-to-make-americans-want-smaller-cars-2000695886

It’s not the end and this outlet is looking for clicks. Nice social strategy

Honestly ran out of HBO shows to reference. Other than Veep

I had to. We all had to. gizmodo.com/trumps-tiny-...