This is a video of former NASA engineer Mark Rober pitting a Tesla’s camera-based autopilot feature against a Lexus’s LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging, which uses lasers to measure distances and create 3D maps) to see which operates safer. The Lexus passes all six tests (stationary child in road, running

This is a video from Layton, Utah of a Jeep getting rear-ended onto train tracks with a train approaching. The driver then starts to reverse off the tracks before running into the train crossing arm and deciding it isn’t worth breaking, then exits the vehicle before impact. Now maybe I

While remodeling a bathroom in his parent’s house, builder Tim King of TKing Construction in Lombard, Illinois found a Christmas present behind a wall. The gift was addressed to him, and was from 1978, when he was just 6 years old. He suspects the box fell between two walls in

Tech industry worker Mike Johns recently requested a Waymo self-driving taxi trip to the airport and was treated to a bunch of donuts in a parking lot instead before a Waymo employee could remotely get his taxi under control and headed in the right direction. Mike believes Waymo’s self-driving technology

A barred owl in Arlington, Virginia recently flew down a family’s uncapped chimney (that’s your bad) and perched atop their Christmas tree, knocking the star topper to the side and taking its place. Admittedly, that’s a great Christmas tree topper. In other news, apparently somebody’s going to be a freshman

This is some home security cam footage from Stephanie Niles, who, after returning from buying a Christmas tree and dropping it off in the driveway, was convinced someone had stolen it after she went back outside to park the car in the garage later that evening and it was gone.

This is an video of a gymnastics floor routine allegedly created by Sora, OpenAI’s video generation model. It did a pretty good job. I mean it’s not perfect, but *raising ‘9’ scorecard over head* its faults were barely noticable. here's a Sora generated video of gymnastics [image or embed] —

Because poor decision making is a skill honed over many years of doing idiotic sh!t and miraculously not dying because God gets a kick out of watching, this is a video of some DIY’er cutting down a tree with a chainsaw from atop a ladder. Surprising only to himself, the