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Inspired by the 1967-68 Mustang, the new skin is available to 2024 Mustang owners via a free over-the-air software update — which I guess beats buying a real one for $350 on eBay.

Uber’s Lost & Found Index just came out, with a look at the most commonly forgotten items (clothes, luggage, not shocking), the most forgetful cities (get it together, Miami!), and the weirdest things people are leaving in their Ubers. Also, it’s Wednesday, which is apparently Leave Your Wallet In An Uber Day. Be careful out there!

That’s how many turns the subway system’s most high-traffic turnstile — No. 602 in Fare Control Area R238, located in Grand Central-42nd Street station — is estimated to do in a year. That’s more throughput than some whole transit systems combined. These durable three-armed machines called tripods are designed by a company called Cubic, which also oversees the MTA’s fare collection system. And boy are they built to last.

Tesla paid X $280,000 for advertising and other services, according to the company’s proxy statement. X paid Tesla $1.02 million for unspecified work. SpaceX paid Tesla $2.9 million for “certain commercial, licensing and support agreements.” Tesla paid SpaceX $800,000 for use of its corporate jet. And Tesla paid the Boring Company $1.2 million.

No one paid Neuralink anything.

The company first rolled the semi-truck on-stage during a cloud computing event in 2016. It’s designed to get companies’ data into the cloud by transporting a 45-foot-long trailer full of hard drives to an Amazon data center.

But now, CNBC reports that Amazon has stopped offering Snowmobile’s service. A spokesperson tells CNBC that Amazon has “faster and easier” ways to transfer data to AWS.

Geneva Long, CEO of RV company Bowlus, wrote on LinkedIn that in the company’s tests, the dual-motor Cybertruck could only tow Bowlus’ 3,250lb Volterra electric RV trailer for 160 miles before its battery gave out. Others have seen similar results.

Long says the Tesla Model X, on the other hand, pulled the same trailer 235 miles.

Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown (D), for one, who is calling for an outright ban on plug-in vehicles from the rival country. “Chinese electric vehicles are an existential threat to the American auto industry,” Brown said, echoing a similar comment made recently by Tesla CEO Elon Musk. The concern is that Chinese EVs are so cheap — BYD’s Seagull sells for around $10,000 — that domestic automakers couldn’t possibly compete.

Is £399 / €399 / $399 too much for a 2.6kg (5.7lbs) gateway bike for your tiny tot? When they tire, you can just load the Gocycle Mini into your new Gocycle Cargo e-bike to teach your kid all about multi-modal lifestyles and brand cohesiveness. Deliveries are expected to start in October.

The Google-spinoff has started charging for rides in its autonomous vehicles in Los Angeles, marking its third such city to do so (after Phoenix and San Francisco). The usual caveats apply about limited number of vehicles, waiting lists, and a service area that doesn’t cover the entire city. Will these driverless cars make a difference in a city notorious for its traffic?

Bloomberg reports that Uber-backed scooter-and-bike-share company Lime is planning to put out 30,000 additional electric bikes in North America, Europe, and Australia, as well as replace older ones.

Lime also reportedly saw record revenue last year — as it predicted it would back in September — even as others in its industry, like Bird, have docked their expectations.

281 miles, apparently, at least when it comes to the $558,700 2024 Rolls-Royce Spectre trim that Edmunds tested.

That’s a little better than the “up to” 260 miles the company said the car would get when it was announced in 2022, at least.

In 1973, scientists intercepted the leading edge of a total eclipse’s shadow in a Concorde jet over Mauritania and flew with it for 74 minutes straight to study the sun’s corona. I have two videos for you.

One, an 8-minute video from the Primal Space YouTube channel, shows the flight modeled in 3D. Embedded below, Airways Magazine shows actual footage.

After a report from Reuters said Tesla’s $25,000 Model 2 project got the ax, Elon Musk quickly scheduled a Tesla Robotaxi launch on August 8th. Other than the curiously selected date, this is a reminder that Elon’s made a lot of unfulfilled statements about robotaxis over the years (and “full self-driving,” and autonomy generally).

Bennett Tomlin checks them out in this video, which you have plenty of time to watch before August.

That’s according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman who says an additional 121 jobs are at risk due to Apple consolidating AI teams. Those 121 employees in San Diego have the option of moving to Austin (Apple is offering a $7,000 stipend) or leave the company at the end of April.

After Marques’ first negative review of the Fisker Ocean kick-started a shitstorm of finger-pointing and back-pedaling, the beleaguered EV company thought it had the perfect comeback strategy: What if we gave him another car, but this time with a software update?

Well, as you can see, it did not go well. MKBHD still has a lot of gripes about the newly updated Ocean. And as for Fisker? Well, the clock is ticking.