Tesla's Full Self Driving Beta was able to easily navigate a crooked'drunk' lane over the weekend in a demonstration of the company's ongoing quest to have its autonomous driving software widely adapted. A street in Hollister, California was mistakenly painted incorrectly by a contractor after the city had redesigned the road to add bike lanes and traffic circles - the lines were meant to be curved and ended up in a strange, zigzag pattern - according to a report from KKTV. The automaker on Monday unveiled massive new casting machines that will simplify the manufacturing process at its factories so that it can ramp up production and stay ahead of its competitors in the expanding electric vehicle space. After the'drunk' lanes were shared online, it was only a matter of time before a Tesla owner with FSD Beta uploaded a video onto Reddit showing the driver-assisted system deftly navigating the crookedly lined street. The software system, which is just about to roll out version 10.13, kept a consistent speed and stayed within its own lane, even when the lanes weren't typical.

Two start-ups leading the race to build the first self-flying taxis are using money from the US military. Last year, Kitty Hawk and Joby Aviation received a total of nearly $2m from the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx), a Pentagon organization founded to help America's military make faster use of emerging technologies. Neither company, nor the DIUx, disclosed the funding at the time. The website for Cora, Kitty Hawk's experimental air taxi, emphasizes its role in solving urban transportation challenges: "Cora is about the time you could save soaring over traffic. The people you could visit.

Two start-ups leading the race to build the first self-flying taxis are using money from the US military. Last year, Kitty Hawk and Joby Aviation received a total of nearly $2m from the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx), a Pentagon organization founded to help America's military make faster use of emerging technologies. Neither company, nor the DIUx, disclosed the funding at the time. The website for Cora, Kitty Hawk's experimental air taxi, emphasizes its role in solving urban transportation challenges: "Cora is about the time you could save soaring over traffic. The people you could visit.

Larry Page, the billionaire co-founder of Google, is secretly backing a pair of startups that are working on flying cars, according to a report. Since 2010, Page has poured more than 100 million into Zee.Aero, a company that lately has been testing two flying-car prototypes at an airport hangar in Hollister, Calif., Bloomberg said Thursday, citing sources. Since last year, Page also has been funding another flying-car startup called Kitty Hawk -- and has cast it as a rival to Zee.Aero as he stages a top-secret race to develop a new class of vehicles that can soar above traffic jams and sidestep the hassles of the airport, Bloomberg said. "Page has drawn a line separating his two flying-car teams," the report said. "It's common for the Zee.Aero engineers to speculate over lunch about what their Kitty Hawk counterparts are up to."