A small airplane made an emergency landing on a Florida highway during rush hour and crashed into a car. The incident happened Thursday around 5:30pm on Interstate ramp in Maitland, Florida. The pilot claimed the plane had run out of fuel before landing, police said.
More »Following years of slowed growth, ride-sharing app Uber may soon be forced to start selling its vast amounts of user data in order to turn a profit.
The company has been affected by a number of scandals in recent years, as a result, its growth rate slowed to 2.3 percent in the fourth quarter over the previous quarter, making the company’s annual loss of more than $3 billion all the more worrisome for investors.
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A traffic stop revealed quite a surprise for responding officers on a highway in Punta Gorda, Florida on Monday, May 6, 2019.
Deputies from the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office were stationed on Tamiami Trail, some 100 miles south of Tampa, conducting traffic enforcement. They pulled over a blue pickup truck after it ran a stop sign at around 3:30 a.m. The truck was being driven by 22-year-old Michael Clemons, and contained a passenger, Ariel Machan-Le Quire, 25. The pair told the officers they had been collecting frogs and snakes from under an overpass. The deputy asked for Clemons driver’s license, registration, and insurance card.
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Miami Air International charter plane and seven crew members from Guantanamo Bay skidded off the runway and plunged into a river during botched landing at Naval Air Station in Jacksonville.
Fire and Rescue crews rushed to NAS Jacksonville on Friday night after a military Boeing 737 carrying 143 people skidded off the runway and crashed into water.
More »A horrifying video shows the moment a train smashes into an SUV in Orlando.
Orlando Police have released video showing a SunRail train plowing into an SUV after the car had driven under a closing railway barrier.
Orlando Police stressed in a tweet that trying to cross when a train approaches is extremely dangerous. “Please obey all traffic laws, especially when approaching railroad crossings.” A nurse on the train rushed to the SUV to help out the driver, witnesses said. The SUV driver, a woman, was taken to hospital in a serious condition.
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Chinese hackers tricked Tesla’s Autopilot into suddenly switching lanes.
A group of Chinese cyber security researchers published a report showing how they tricked Tesla’s self-driving autopilot and made it swerve into an oncoming traffic lane.
The researchers are from Keen Security Labs in China, one of the most widely respected cyber security research groups in the world. They have successfully hacked a Tesla Model S autopilot self-driving system and forced the car to drive into an oncoming lane.
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The International Space Station celebrates a new era in exploration with the arrival of the SpaceX capsule.
The new SpaceX crew capsule arrived at the station on Sunday at an extraordinary moment for commercial space exploration.
Humans have entered SpaceX’s crew capsule while in orbit for the first time, just hours after the spacecraft docked at the space station on Sunday morning.
More »The Michigan factory will be the first of its kind to build vehicles capable of Level 4 autonomy.
Over a month after launching the first-ever commercial autonomous ride-hailing service, Alphabet’s self-driving vehicle company, Waymo, said this week that it is planning o build a new manufacturing plant. The company said in a blog post that the facility will be located in Michigan and that it will be the first of its kind to build vehicles of Level 4 autonomy, in which the vehicle drives itself, but only with limits on where. It seems Waymo hopes the new facility should help the company build its lead in this growing industry. This will be the world’s first factory 100%-dedicated to the mass production of L4 autonomous vehicles,” said from the company.
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