Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. Your morning catch-up: Betting on the elections, Becerra widens the lead in governor's race and more big stories'They come in droves': How robotaxis hog EV chargers in one corner of Southern California Self-driving vehicles charge at the Waymo station in Santa Monica in 2025. This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search.

Image caption, Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis also attacked the airport in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh earlier this month The US State Department has ordered some diplomats and their families to leave Saudi Arabia as attacks escalate, with three people killed in strikes across the country. Saudi authorities said debris from a drone intercepted during an attempted attack on an oil field killed two people, while one person died after a strike at the King Fahd International Airport in Dammam. Conflict between Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis and Saudi Arabia has been rising in the past month. The Houthis have responded to Saudi strikes by launching missiles and drones at airports, energy facilities and military bases in Saudi Arabia. A recent strike on Riyadh's international airport was the deadliest in the kingdom in years.

Deploying simple, proven methods for making our roads safer could save more than 1 million lives worldwide each year. Every year, traffic crashes kill more than one million people, and they're the leading cause of death for children and young adults. In the US, 100 people a day lose their lives this way, in many cases not on highways but on rural and local streets. "Traffic deaths are a leading cause of preventable death, yet we treat it like it's inevitable," says Leah Shahum, founder and director of the Vision Zero Network, a nonprofit focused on making streets less deadly. The causes of a crash can be muddy. Drivers make mistakes like speeding or getting distracted, but infrastructure fails them too: Perhaps they were on a road built for speed and not safety, in a screen-filled vehicle, or at an intersection where pedestrians, cyclists, and other cars aren't visible.

The people best suited for doing this new type of work aren't computer programmers. They are the ones who know how the real work is done. The people best suited for doing this new type of work aren't computer programmers. They are the ones who know how the real work is done. AI is increasingly getting good at doing some tasks, but it can never replace human workers' judgment A utonomous cars, which may be the safest we have built, keep getting easily avoidable parking tickets. That is the state of AI today: impressively capable at something complex, yet embarrassingly clumsy at something easy.

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Airport drop-off charges are to be reviewed by the government following sharp price increases in recent years. Prices at major UK airports have risen by a third since the summer of 2025 on average, according to one analysis, with Gatwick and Stansted drop-off charges found to be the most expensive, jumping from £7 to £10. Such charges at Edinburgh Airport have risen from £6 to £8.50, while fees at Bournemouth increased from £5 to £8, the same price as Leeds Bradford and London City. The Department for Transport confirmed it had committed to a review, saying it was vital to ensure travel remains accessible and that passengers are treated fairly. The government added it hoped airports would exercise restraint on rises, particularly where there are limited public transport alternatives.

Not building third runway would be'huge missed opportunity', warns Heathrow boss Not building a third runway at Heathrow Airport would be a huge missed opportunity for the UK, the boss of the country's busiest airport has warned. Thomas Woldbye told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it would be good to know the government's position on the project, after Prime Minister Andy Burnham refused to say whether he backed expansion. The airport's chief executive said if its owners could not invest in a third runway, the money will be invested somewhere else in the world, suggesting a decision would be made in the new year. The Department for Transport said it was reviewing responses to a consultation and was considering the appropriate next steps. A spokesperson added that the government supported airport expansion across the country where this can contribute to growth and opportunity, while meeting the tests on the environment.

An Anthropic AI model submitted a fake tip about an unsolved murder.

Waymos are safer than human drivers. Why are people heckling them, egging them, and smashing in their windshields? The wheel turns: when one of Waymo's autonomous vehicles is in motion, its steering wheel moves, too--twitching out the car's maneuvers from the usual position, facing the front-left seat. Generally, on American roads, this is known as the driver's seat. In a Waymo, such a designation is arbitrary. The Waymo Driver, as the company calls its autonomous-driving system--a force guided by sensors, cameras, custom maps, and machine learning--is all around. No one is allowed to sit in that front-left seat. Before I'd ridden in a Waymo, I had wondered about the wheel. What was it doing up there? One answer, a boring one, is as follows: it is fulfilling a legal mandate. Existing safety standards assume that cars have steering wheels, and, because Waymo's vehicles are regulated as cars, so do they. Besides, the company has spent much of its decade-long existence retrofitting normal cars with self-driving technology; the wheel is largely a vestigial inheritance. "We were very curious about whether people would react positively or negatively to the fact that the wheel turned," Megan Neese, Waymo's "Head of Insights," told me recently. We were sitting in her employer's San Francisco offices. Neese has been at the company since 2019, when it began offering fully driverless rides to the public; she was tasked with gauging passenger reactions. It was not hard to see how a wheel steering on its own might look spooky--the suggestion of a ghost in the machine. Yet, to Neese's surprise, riders reported that it reassured them. It seemed to convey that the car's actions were "recognizable; they're relatable; they're continuing to happen." The Driver doesn't need them.)

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