Yosh has been covering the increasing use of AI to test for better and faster racing times for track A01. The conclusion: AI was able to bet the human world record, but is still lagging the hand-tuned TAS (tool assisted speedrun). They’re not done trying yet – we’ll have to watch and see how many more records fall to AI and which do not.
We all saw the videos of androgynous actors in strange clothes that left people unsure what Jaguar was even advertising. There was not a single mention of a car. Jaguar emptied its show floors of older models that were all discontinued and announced no cars – for a year.
Then the Jaguar Type 00 prototypes were shown and the attempt flopped. How bad? How about an entire year with no cars for sale and then a 97.5% sales collapse.
April 2024: 1,961 cars sold
April 2025: 49 cars sold
This lead to the firing of the 3rd party marketing group hired for the effort, the lead designers, and CEO. The current offerings from Jaguar are a 180 degree turn back to their older designs but it is unclear if they will ever recover.
A complete disaster and an intelligent re-invention can look similar at first, but it turns out that burning the bridges with an unproven firm before you even know if there is land on the other side is a very bad idea.
I’ve written about the atomization of farming before, but now Nvidia and Carbon Robotics are demonstrating the LaserWeeder G2. It has 24 high powered lasers and 24 GPU’s and can purportedly zap 10,000 weeds per minute, which breaks down to 167 weeds per second.
That’s an impressive amount of computing horsepower that finds weeds and targets them with lasers – instead of using chemical herbicides. This saves money and the hazards of expensive chemicals.
Here it is in live action (without all the flashy graphics and the BRAAAMs):
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Once your car gets about 10 years old, one of the most annoying things is that headlights dim and yellow. This is due to a number of reasons – but primarily due to the degradation of the UV coating. You can buff it off, but it often quickly returns and you’re stuck with an annoying chore almost every year.
Another option is to buy replacement headlights. In the old days, you simply unscrewed the old bulbs and put in the new ones. Now you need to remove the assemblies – which often involves removing the bumper and surrounding shrouds – as is the case with mid 2010 Subarus.
The Crosstrek/Impreza’s in the 2015 era were actually not that bad to replace. TRQ does a great job showing you how to do the job yourself – including how to re-aim the headlights. It’s a great video.
I’ve seen lowered cars before, but nothing like this from LodiGlass.
The Chinese auto company BYD demonstrates the Yangwang U9 model, an electric supercar with four motors, fast charging, a top speed of 243 mph, and individual wheel drive system. It also doesn’t need a driver. Yangwang U9 also has the ability to leap. Watch carefully, and you’ll see the wheels retract into the body like a low rider, and then suddenly extend while at speed to leap over obstacles or holes in the road.
Perhaps they’re trying to duplicate Mercedez-Benz Maybach bounce that has been turning heads.
Tesla’s in-car visualizations for features like Autopilot and Full Self-Driving might be getting an upgrade with a switch to Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. As reported by Not a Tesla App, Tesla hacker greentheonly says they found evidence of the change in Tesla’s 2025.20 firmware for Tesla Model S and Model X cars.
It wouldn’t be surprising as the use of standardized tooling is almost always cheaper than making your own. Article here.
First there was the thinnest car, then the lowest car – now there’s the shortest car? Hosted by 2 excitable Italian guys from Carmagheddon.
Tutti Pazzi Per Marazzi most recent project is to modify a Fiat Panda and make it only 20 inches wide. Perhaps the thinnest car in the world?
This longer video shows how he did it.
Carmagheddon took this FIAT Panda hatchback and turned into the lowest drivable vehicle. You can watch the full build process Part One and Two.