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Missouri Cop Makes First Contact With UFO On Its Way To Roswell | Carscoops

The police officer identified two 'humanoids' inside the vehicle, describing them as friendly
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It keeps getting stopped:
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Roswell-Bound 'Flying Saucer' Stopped Again | Coast to Coast AM

A pair of UFO buffs' road trip to Roswell has become an unforgettable journey as their 'flying saucer' car is back in the headlines after being pulled over by the cops for a second time.
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Prejudiced cops…

Driving while grey…

I am the night!
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Nobody’s home: Phoenix cop left talking to customer support after pulling over driverless taxi
The unmanned vehicle was pulled over after allegedly driving in ‘opposing lanes of traffic’, according to a Phoenix police officer

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Moment Phoenix cop pulls over a driverless taxi

The unmanned vehicle was pulled over after allegedly driving in ‘opposing lanes of traffic’, according to a Phoenix police officer
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After connecting to a support rep, the officer said: “Your car here drove into oncoming lanes of traffic.”

The self-driving car went into “opposing lanes of traffic” in a construction area, “which is real bad,” the officer explained.

A passerby then approached the pulled-over vehicle and tells the officer: “I couldn’t help but come over here just out of morbid curiosity. I thought maybe there was a passenger.”

The officer replied, “You know the construction here? It was going eastbound in the westbound lanes, which is real bad. So I light it up and it takes off in the intersection.” The officer then laughed.

The Waymo support representative then said he would review video footage of the alleged incident.

Waymo told The Independent in a statement that the driverless vehicle “encountered inconsistent construction signage and briefly entered an unoccupied oncoming lane of traffic.” The car was then “blocked from navigating back into the correct lane” for about 30 seconds.
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Police Pull Over Car for Driving on Wrong Side of Road, Startled to Discover It Has No Driver
"So your car here drove into oncoming lanes of traffic."
Phoenix PD

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Police Pull Over Car for Driving on Wrong Side of Road, Startled to Discover It Has No Driver

A video shows a police officer in Phoenix, Arizona pulling over a self-driving vehicle after it drove down a busy road in the opposing lane.
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A video making the rounds on social media shows a police officer in Phoenix, Arizona pulling over a vehicle after it drove down a busy road in the opposing lane.

But as the body cam footage, which was shared by AZCentral last week, quickly reveals, there's no human driver behind the wheel. It's a driverless taxi operated by self-driving car company Waymo — leading to an unusual and incredibly awkward interaction.

"There's no driver," the officer told dispatch over his radio. "Hi!" he added cheerfully once the window was automatically rolled down.

"Connected to rider support," a robotic voice answered unperturbed. "This call may be recorded for quality assurance."

"So your car here drove into oncoming lanes of traffic," the cop told the Waymo support team member.

"Okay, I will go ahead and take a look at that right now," the disembodied voice replied.
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and

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Your Waymo got pulled over. What happens next in Phoenix?

What happens if an officer stops a car and there's no driver this 4th of July?
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The police officer hits their lights, pulling over the vehicle in front of them, walks up to the driver's window, and ... there's no one inside.

It prompts a question that can only be asked in the handful of U.S. cities that allow autonomous vehicles: What happens when an officer stops a car and there's no driver?

That question, accompanied by a photograph of a Waymo autonomous vehicle that had been pulled over in central Phoenix on June 19, was posted on the social media website Reddit last month. Phoenix police and Waymo officials confirmed the vehicle was driving in an oncoming traffic lane near Seventh Avenue and Osborn Road. There was no passenger, and no other cars involved.

Here's what happened in Phoenix, and what you need to know.
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I have to love Waymo's optimism.
"Sure, we can use our driverless taxi in traffic. Hmmm? Test it before we put it there? That is soooo not Agile"
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A road not taken, until now. I'd shudder to think how much lift it generates at speed but it's certainly a beauty. It's on show at the Goodwood Festival of Speed now.

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Meet the Auto Union Type 52 'Schnellsportwagen' that never was – until now

Designed as a road-going version of the famed Auto Union Type 22 grand prix racer, the streamlined Type 52 could have been the most powerful car of its era. But the 3-seated supercar of the 1930s was never built. Now Audi Tradition brings the vision to life at Goodwood Festival of Speed.
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In 2000, Audi showed the Rosemeyer concept car, obviously inspired by the Type 52.
 

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Some more on the Auto Union Type 52 recreation. O'Rourke Coachtrimmers & Supplies fitted the interior. Watch through to the end, it's beautiful, and you get a history lesson on 1930s techniques.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfdb9AgGrN4


The engineering company that built the car is Crosthwaite and Gardiner, which has had an association with Audi for years, recreating the famous Auto Union racing cars. Their website and YouTube channel are rather sparse and have nothing about this project yet but something may be loaded soon.
 
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Nobody’s home: Phoenix cop left talking to customer support after pulling over driverless taxi.
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Did you know how—
“33.52 mph”
…could you walk a…no that won’t work
“You want me to put a breathilizer where?”

E-mail citation—DWUBSOD
DRIVING UNDER BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH

“Your pull-over is very important to us…please stay on hold…”
 
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The old ways are best….so, wolfsbane does what to the LIDAR?

I know garlic overloads the catalytic converter…

“Even a man who is pure in heart
and says his prayers at night
may become a road rager when
the slow-poke/straggler looms
and makes him miss the light.”

Say it with me now—“antipasto”
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The old ways are best….so, wolfsbane does what to the LIDAR?

I know garlic overloads the catalytic converter…

“Even a man who is pure in heart
and says his prayers at night
may become a road rager when
the slow-poke/straggler looms
and makes him miss the light.”

Say it with me now—“antipasto”
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Antipasto, what did pasto do to them? Just use your noodle. Could be a Linguiniest.
 
Not particularly fun but not the kind of news you expect to hear everyday:

“An old Tesla, including the cost of delivery, will be nearly $10,000. And you can turn that into 12 batteries, and also sell the parts,” he said. He named his brand Ukrainian Autonomous Systems.Each system thus produced has a capacity of 5 kilowatt hours, enough to run the lights and electrical equipment — but not energy-hungry electric heating — in a normal Kyiv apartment for 10 hours. Some he sells without a margin to the army, but most of his customers are civilians. Demand has gone from near zero to sky high in the past two months, and Bentsa expects it to rise as winter approaches.
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I don't suppose Bentleys are made in enough numbers for there to be a true swarm of flying B drones.

Don't read too much into the patent drawings. The car is an older model Continental and it's clear that they're patenting the concept, not the actual design. The detailed and accurate monochrome renders you sometimes see leaked are technically and legally trademarks.

As the article notes, Yangwang already sells an SUV with an optional drone. Polestar's O2 concept had its own drone. It's headed for production as the Polestar 6 but there's no word on whether it will keep the drone.

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Bentley Wants To Make Flying B Badge Really Fly With Tiny Drone Patent | Carscoops

Owners could use the drone to help locate a free parking space or find alternate routes in traffic
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Fun fact: Bentley does have plenty of real drones and swarms of flying Bs already.

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Bentley Harvested A Record 1,000 Jars Of Honey From Its Flying Bees

The news couldn't
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Interesting.

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No One Is Making Hypercars Like Czinger

The world according to Kevin Czinger is fascinating and filled with possibility.
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Divergent Adaptive Production System (DAPS). Essentially, you plug in a set of parameters for a part into Divergent’s ultra-powerful computer system, and through AI iteration, the part is designed with the minimum material required to hit the required parameters. Then the part is 3D printed on Divergent-designed machines with unique alloys devised by the system.

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