Daimler Truck is upgrading the Freightliner Cascadia with automatic emergency braking, cross traffic assist and pedestrian detection to help prevent deadly collisions.

Elon Musk announced plans to wind down Tesla Cybertruck production at its Texas factory by mid-2027 to make room for Cybercab self-driving taxis.

Tesla will wind down production of its Cybertruck vehicles at its Texas factory next year, Elon Musk says. He did not spell out whether it plans to stop making them entirely or shift production elsewhere, but did say the decision was to make room for building more of its self-driving Cybercab cars. But the project's lead engineer, Wes Morrill, appeared to suggest the vehicle was being discontinued, writing on X: Cybertruck was an incredible technology development platform and lives on through Cybercab. With its distinctive angular looks, the Cybertruck attracted diehard fans, but was beset by delays before being launched in 2023 and has had disappointing sales numbers since. Tesla fans have been mourning the news online, with one person calling it the best vehicle Tesla has ever made, external as he lamented it being discontinued next year.

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The companies plan to deploy their autonomous bZ4X vehicles to other right-hand drive markets like the UK. In April 2025, Toyota and Waymo entered a preliminary agreement to work together on robotaxis. Now, the companies have announced that they will start testing an autonomous fleet of Toyota bZ4X electric vehicles in Japan sometime in 2027. After Japan, they're planning to deploy the vehicles to the UK and other right-hand drive markets in the years that follow. The bZ4X is Toyota's first modern mass-market electric vehicle based on the e-TNGA platform it developed with Subaru.

What to Know About China's Top-Secret Spaceplane This week, the Pentagon released a full-resolution image of the vehicle, the capabilities of which remain rather mysterious. The spacecraft was caught on camera by a commercial satellite in low orbit. A winged Chinese spacecraft bearing a strong resemblance to the US military's X-37B spaceplane was photographed in orbit by a passing US-owned commercial satellite in 2024, and we finally have the image. The Chinese spaceplane has delta wings, payload bay doors, a dark heat shield, and a rear-mounted service module with power-generating solar arrays. In other words, the design of the winged ship is, to a great degree, a copy of the X-37B spaceplane flown by the US Space Force.

The base model--without thrusters or the flight system--will likely cost several times that amount to buy. "I'm going to do everything in my power to get the flying one," says one customer. In mid-October, CEO Elon Musk sort of made good on a long-standing promise: Tesla's new second-gen Roadster flew through the air . Technically, the vehicle used compressed air to "thrust" itself --the "flying" lasted mere seconds, and the system takes six to seven hours to refill . Never mind, though--some buyers were eager to unsheath their credit cards to reserve one of the cars. "I was freaking out," says Alex Lawrence, the owner of used-electric-vehicle dealership EVAuto, who already had one reservation for a second-gen Roadster and watched the demonstration live online.

GM plans to upgrade Super Cruise with eyes-off driving technology in the Cadillac Escalade IQ by 2028, potentially letting drivers look away from the road at highway speeds.

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