New: After three years of 40,000+ traffic deaths a year, NHTSA early estimates of 2024 indicate a total of 39,345, a decrease of 3.8 percent year of year.

About 12 hours left in April, Aurora. Anything notable happening out there on Texas interstates?

New: Aurora is putting human backups back behind the wheel, the company said. This comes after truckmaker Paccar objected to its vehicles being used in driverless service. Story coming shortly.

"We respected their request and are moving the observer, who had been riding in the back of some of our trips, from the back seat to the front seat,” says Chris Urmson. autonews.com/technology/an-…

Admitting that you have a problem ...you know, the first step and all.

When Tesla launches robotaxi, how will the market react? Grayson Brulte and Pete Bigelow share their thoughts. $TSLA

"This is going to be the decade of AV, robotics and autonomous machines," NVIDIA's Jensen Huang says today, continuing bullish theme he has echoed since CES. cnbc.com/2025/06/12/nvi…

Love that my Automotive News colleague Richard Truett pulled together this story, which looks at what Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys did for California car culture. RIP, Brian. autonews.com/retail/marketi…

Big h/t to Alex Roy for joining me on the Shift podcast to discuss Tesla's pending launch in Austin and everything else in the robotaxi realm. autonews.com/podcasts/shift…

Investors treating Tesla and Uber like they just invented the wheel this week. Tesla: "We have robotaxis" (+4.5% in last 5 days) Uber: "Waymo on our app in Atlanta" (+8.6% in 5 days) Self-driving cars have been "5 years away" for the past 15 years. Why wasn't this baked in?

Things at $UBER are about to get interesting. nytimes.com/2025/06/26/tec…

Ford CEO Jim Farley said Chinese cars have "far superior" technology, lower costs and great quality. insideevs.com/news/764318/fo…

And we taught them how and then stuck our head in the sand.

The New York Times published my opinion piece today: "This is BYD, the Chinese Car That's Taking Over the World" It's a call to action, an urgent one. Like it or not, China is the new center of the global automotive industry. Its scale, speed, supply chains software and

New from me: I'm excited to share that I'm writing about the future of transportation over on Substack. AVs, EVs, eVTOLs, etc, the whole gamut. I hope you'll join me on this ride: petebigelow.substack.com/p/inaugural-st…

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 This blind arrogance is why 87% of Americans HATE car dealerships Also why Tesla owners overwhelmingly love the shopping experience Incredibly, most US car dealers I know are hard R voters… …and yet these same dealers love the anti-free market regulatory

Which works better, the air conditioning or the autonomy?

One man's trash = America's largest microgrid. And that's just the beginning for Redwood Materials's use of repurposed EV batteries. petebigelow.substack.com/p/from-used-to…

Shot an ILS approach for the first time in 15 years this morning, courtesy of the Boom Supersonic simulator at #reindustrialize. Barely competent, but any landing is a good one.

My Reindustrialize conference take away: domestic manufacturing is having its moment, which is great. Been waiting for this moment for 15 years. But everyone is too focused on defense manufacturing - which is important - but we need consumer products manufactured in the United