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BYD, the world's largest electric vehicle maker, is doubling down on its global ambitions even as American tariffs effectively shut it out of the US market. In a new interview, executive Stella Li made clear the company isn't waiting around, pushing aggressively into Europe, Southeast Asia, and Latin America instead.
Meanwhile, Waymo is quietly tightening the rules around who can actually ride alone in its driverless taxis. Adult passengers are now reporting new age-verification checks, as the robotaxi company tries to prevent unsupervised children from using the service in cities where solo minors aren't permitted to ride.
And in Canada, a troubling case of mobile cybercrime is drawing serious attention. Hackers mounted SMS blasters onto vehicles and drove through Toronto streets, impersonating legitimate cell networks, triggering thirteen million connection disruptions, and compromising thousands of individual devices. Authorities are calling it a significant public safety threat, not just a financial one.
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