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Elon Musk's tunnel-digging firm The Boring Company's operations in Las Vegas were suspended after a worker sustained a "crushing injury."

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Boring Company Pauses Work After Worker Gets Crushed

By Victor Tangermann

The "conveyor belt road" will form the route for hundreds of robotic pallets that automatically move cargo from city to city.

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Japan Working on “Conveyor Belt Road” Between Tokyo and Osaka

By Frank Landymore

Shift Robotics claims its Moonwalkers, a dorky-looking pair of shoe attachments, will increase your walking speed by up to 250 percent.

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Bizarre Shoe Attachments Claim to Make You Walk Way Faster

By Victor Tangermann

A company in Australia is testing photoluminescent lane markings that light up your roads at night, and it looks like something straight out of TRON.

We’re Absolutely Fascinated by These Glow-in-the-Dark Lane Markings

By Frank Landymore

A passenger with absolutely no flight experience just landed a small Cessna plane after the pilot was incapacitated earlier this week.

Listen to the Moment a Passenger Lands a Plane During Emergency

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A giant cargo ship carrying 4,000 luxury cars called the Felicity Ace is now adrift in the Pacific Ocean, burning, without its crew.

Fire Engulfs Cargo Ship Carrying Thousands of Luxury Cars

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A man says that his Tesla suddenly broke down and completely locked up in the middle of a highway, making it impossible for him to safely pull over.

Driver Claims Tesla Locked Up in Middle of Six-Lane Highway

By Dan Robitzski

Engineers in England have developed a jetpack that they claim is so easy to use, anyone can fly it with minimal training.

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Startup Says Anyone New Jetpack Is So Simple That Anyone Can Fly It

By Tony Ho Tran

The Airlander 10, a gigantic airship that looks an awful lot like a butt, could start ferrying passengers to and from the North Pole soon.

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World’s Largest Aircraft Mocked for Looking Like Giant Butt

By Dan Robitzski

A self-driving bus crashed into a visually-impaired paralympian at the athlete's village in Tokyo, but it may not have been the autonomous vehicle's fault.

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Self-Driving Bus Hits Pedestrian at Tokyo Olympic Village

By Dan Robitzski

The latest draft of the infrastructure bill includes a provision that would require every new car to be able to tell if the driver is too drunk.

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New Law Would Make Every New Car Verify That You’re Sober

By Dan Robitzski

Nikola's now-infamous demo of a hydrogen truck prototype was even more of a sham than we thought, according to a new SEC court filing.

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Nikola’s Fake Hydrogen Truck Was Actually Plugged In During Demo, According to Lawsuit

By Dan Robitzski

The startup Halo wants to use driverless, remote-controlled cars to make renting a car less of a headache and pave the road for autonomous vehicles.

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Driverless Car Startup Actually Uses Remote Controls

By Dan Robitzski

Uber drivers report that the company was charging rather than paying them for some trips, causing some to quit the platform altogether.

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Uber Glitch Makes Drivers Pay for Their own Rides

By Dan Robitzski

A Transformer-like car that can switch back and forth into a personal airplane just completed a brief test flight in Slovakia.

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Car With Pop-Out Wings Aces Test Flight

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla and the electric scooter company Revel planned to launch a fleet of taxis in New York City, but regulators shot the plan down.

NYC Just Shut Down a Tesla Taxi Fleet

By Dan Robitzski