The first day of school in Miami-Dade County, Florida, was brought to you by the numbers 4, 0, and 4. On Monday morning, 275,000 students and 19,200 teachers settled in for the start of remote learning for the semester, only to encounter widespread crashes on the school system's education platform. Many students couldn't join virtual classrooms; teachers were locked out of attendance portals and grading systems. Currently on a group chat with several parents - for all of us on the chat the district's student portal is currently not loading. Miami dade should be ashame my kids couldn't start school today I literally sat with him all day. Frustration for him because he was excited and it was taken away.

Early in his career, Andrew Hall, an old-school Miami attorney whose Coconut Grove firm has sued governments from Cuba to Sudan, worked on a lawsuit that lasted three full years. The case was cartoonishly complex. The Vietnam War was sputtering to an end and McDonnell Douglas Aircraft, then America's largest manufacturer of jet airplanes, had defaulted on a contract involving the delivery of 99 jets to Eastern Airlines. There were over a million documents put into evidence and almost 300 witnesses. The massive operation employed so many lawyers, clerks and paralegals, they resembled a legal militia more than a legal team.

DETROIT – Ford Motor Co. is making Miami-Dade County its new test bed for self-driving vehicles. The automaker and its partners -- Domino's Pizza, ride-hailing company Lyft and delivery company Postmates -- are starting pilot programs to see how consumers react to autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles. Self-driving startup and Ford partner Argo AI already has a fleet of cars in the area making the highly detailed maps that are necessary for self-driving. Ford also will establish its first-ever autonomous vehicle terminal in Miami, where it will learn how to service and deploy its test fleet. More services will likely be introduced as the partnership goes on, including Chariot, an app-based shuttle service owned by Ford.

Ford Motor Co. is making Miami-Dade County its new test bed for self-driving vehicles. The automaker and its partners - Domino's Pizza, ride-hailing company Lyft and delivery company Postmates - are starting pilot programs to see how consumers react to autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles. Self-driving startup and Ford partner Argo AI already has a fleet of cars in the area making the highly detailed maps that are necessary for self-driving. Ford also will establish its first-ever autonomous vehicle terminal in Miami, where it will learn how to service and deploy its test fleet. Ford is making Miami-Dade County its new test bed for self-driving vehicles.

Leaders of two South Dade cities have a warning for Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez: Don't try to convince us to wait for driverless cars when we've been promised a new rail line. The mayors of Cutler Bay and Palmetto Bay wrote Gimenez this week to protest what they claim was a major reversal during a private May 15 meeting on the county's multi-billion-dollar plan to expand rail countywide. Instead of extending Metrorail south to Florida City, Gimenez reportedly floated the idea of using high-tech buses as a transition to a transportation revolution: the arrival of autonomous cars and their ability to revolutionize highway travel. "If the county's plan is to abandon what has been promised by way of the SMART plan, then it is only fair that we let the residents know now," read the May 22 letter from Peggy Bell, the mayor of Cutler Bay, and Eugene Flinn, Palmetto Bay's mayor. "However, we want to make it clear that our position has not changed and that we feel that the County is breaking another promise made to the residents which will undoubtedly shake the trust of its constituency."