Aaron Gordon
VICE
New York, NY, United States
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Feds Investigating Tesla For Making Cars With Steering Wheels That Fall Off
Some Tesla Model Ys are being shipped without a bolt that keeps the steering wheel in place, according to the announcement. → Read More
Ford Seeks Patent That Turns Car Into Dystopian Nightmare If You Miss a Payment
The patent imagines self-driving cars that will repossess themselves. → Read More
American Cars Are Getting Too Big For Parking Spaces
The changes to parking space standards have not kept up with the explosion in vehicle sizes. → Read More
San Franciscans Keep Calling 911 About Baffling Self-Driving Car Behavior
Cruise receives the vast majority of complaints, including boxing in buses and trying to drive over fire hoses during active firefighting. → Read More
How Nextdoor Put Neighbors In a Housing Policy 'Cage Match'
The neighborhood-based social media platform notorious for stoking crime and homelessness hysteria is becoming an increasingly influential organizing tool in housing politics. → Read More
Why C-SPAN’s Camera Work Is Suddenly So Interesting
For decades, the network has asked to be able to film all of what happens in the House chamber, not just the person speaking. Thanks to the Kevin McCarthy Speaker battle, it is finally happening, in all its chaotic glory. → Read More
Independent Review Panel Finds UCSB’s Dormzilla “Unwise” and Poses “Significant Health and Safety Risks”
The fate of Munger Hall remains as opaque as its windowless bedrooms. → Read More
San Francisco Decides Killer Police Robots Are Not a Great Idea, Actually
“We should be working on ways to decrease the use of force by local law enforcement, not giving them new tools to kill people.” → Read More
A $100 Billion Lesson In Why Building Public Transportation Is So Expensive in the US
There's a plan to spend $100 billion fixing the Northeast Corridor by 2035. Similar countries build entire new rail corridors with dozens of new stations for a fraction of that cost. Why can't the U.S.? → Read More
France Officially Bans People From Owning Themselves by Flying Instead of Taking Fast, Convenient Trains
The ban on commercial flights where fast, frequent high-speed rail service exists cleared a major hurdle. → Read More
More than 500 Labor Historians Condemn Biden’s Intervention in Freight Rail Dispute
It’s never good when people who spend their entire professional lives studying the subject say you fucked up. → Read More
Thank You For Your Feedback
The community feedback process is an inconvenient annoyance that brings out the worst in people. It is also at the heart of why U.S. cities can't build new housing or transportation. → Read More
43 Injured In Manhattan High-Rise Fire Caused by Electric Scooter
Firefighters saved a woman dangling from the side of the building with a daring rescue. → Read More
American Infrastructure Is So Bad Even Our Amusement Park Trains Are Derailing
A steam train at Silver Dollar City in Missouri derailed resulting in seven injuries. → Read More
People Have Better Things to Do Than Commute, Study Finds
Amid all the back-to-office agita, companies are ignoring the very real quality-of-life benefits of having an extra hour a day to do what you like. → Read More
Uber Will Start Serving You Targeted Ads Based On Where You Go
What could possibly go wrong. → Read More
Biking in New York City Is 25 Times More Dangerous Than in Vancouver, Study Finds
The study by the International Transport Forum shows some cities have virtually eliminated cyclist deaths. Others, not so much. → Read More
Woman Hit by Freight Train While Detained in Cop Car Parked on the Tracks
State authorities are investigating, and an officer has been placed on administrative leave. The woman is expected to survive. → Read More
28 Freight Rail Workers Tell Us What They Want You to Know About Their Lives
In threatening to disrupt the nation’s economy, freight rail workers are seeking basic dignities every other worker takes for granted. → Read More
US on Verge of ‘Economic Disaster’ Because Freight Rail Workers Can’t Get Sick Time
Freight rail workers want to strike for sick and guaranteed paid leave time, a move that would consequently force freight rail companies to hire adequate staff. The companies refuse. → Read More