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Friday’s Spooky Headlines

The AI Is Coming...So Is Mad Max?

By Damien Newton

8:50 AM PDT on October 31, 2025

Another CalMatters Study Shows CA Has Some of Country’s Weakest Drunk Driving Laws
Kinder-Morgan and Philips 66 Propose New 1,300 Pipeline in SoCal (Union-Trib)
HSR NIMBYs Again, this time in Shafter (SFGate)
More on Bay Area Regional Transit Funding Measure (SJSpotLight)
New Signage on I-10 Help Truckers Find Rest Areas (OC Register)
Everybody HATES LAX’s New Expensive Traffic Plan (Streets for All)
SacBee Slams “Sham” Homeless Summit, Twice
Polling Strengthens for Prop. 50 (Fresno Bee)
Seriously, WTF Is Wrong with Tesla? (Ars Technica)
Uber CEO: All Cars Will Be Autonomous by 2045 (Business Insider).
Uber Hopes to Launch AI Taxis in SF Next Year (Electrek).
Waymo Execs: AI Drivers Might Be Dangerous, But Wayles Dangerous Then Humans (Futurism)
- See what I did there?

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