safety

This week, US senators heard alarming testimony suggesting that unchecked AI could steal jobs, spread misinformation, and generally “go quite wrong,” in the words of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (whatever that means). He and several lawmakers…

Image: Daphne Police Department FacebookI know a lot of random vehicles have popped up on the roads over the years, but you don’t usually expect many of them to turn out to be road legal, like this jet ski motorcycle, or whatever it is.…

Jeep Wrangler 4xes in the 2022 and 2023 model years have been recalled for potentially bad battery packs, according to documents filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Racing Tech | The Most Powerful Engines in…

Image: Damian Dovarganes (AP)Los Angeles is known for many things, like sunshine, Hollywood and police chases. Over the years they’ve turned into more of a spectacle than anything. A search of YouTube for local L.A. news stations coverage…

Stephanie Slocum and her husband have owned a bicycle shop in San Jose for just over a year and during most of that time, it’s been a game of financial whack-a-mole. They’ve replaced five smashed windows and lost two bikes to theft. The…

Zoox has had disclose the details of its “self-certification” process after federal regulators in the U.S. raised questions about the safety of the Amazon-backed company’s autonomous vehicles, or robotaxis, which started operating on public…

The bus was stuck. San Francisco’s eastbound 54 Felton line was heading up a narrow residential street when a white SUV coming the other way stopped in the middle of the road. It was a rainy Sunday evening last month, and the bus driver…

Canada’s police chiefs are sounding the alarm over public safety. In a letter obtained by Global News, the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police said it urgently needs to meet with premiers from across the country to look at how to…

Asset forfeiture is big business for police departments around the country. Data from the Institute for Justice says that in 2018 alone, police in 42 states and Washington D.C. took over $3 billion from citizens; half a billion was taken…