Friday’s Spooky Headlines
The AI Is Coming...So Is Mad Max?
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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