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CNN
8 hours ago
- CNN
Video Shows woman clinging to tree as immigration agents try to detain her
A bystander captured on video the moment immigration agents in street clothes chased a woman across the street trying to detain her outside of a Home Depot where she had been selling food in West Los Angeles just moments prior.
CNN
10 hours ago
- CNN
Video Shows woman clinging to tree as immigration agents try to detain her
A bystander captured on video the moment immigration agents in street clothes chased a woman across the street trying to detain her outside of a Home Depot where she had been selling food in West Los Angeles just moments prior.
CNN
11 hours ago
- CNN
Video Shows woman clinging to tree as immigration agents try to detain her
A bystander captured on video the moment immigration agents in street clothes chased a woman across the street trying to detain her outside of a Home Depot where she had been selling food in West Los Angeles just moments prior.
Forbes
6 days ago
- Automotive
- Forbes
My Tesla Model Y Juniper FSD Test Drive Fails Spectacularly
The images show the Tesla Model Y equipped with its Level 2 autonomous driving capabilities. The ... More photos highlight the vehicle's logo, the navigation screen displaying real-time traffic and autonomous driving interface, and the interior with hands-off steering functionality, underlining Tesla's advanced driver assistance systems in Bari, Italy, on December 10, 2024. (Photo by Matteo Della Torre/NurPhoto via Getty Images) A brand-new 2026 Tesla Model Y with the latest available version of Full-Self Driving failed three times during my test drive on Thursday. After a very successful (read: uneventful) 48-hour FSD v 13.2.9 test drive of a Tesla Model Y Juniper earlier this month, I had a disastrous one-hour test drive on Thursday. The difference: the drive on Thursday (June 19) was in much-busier West Los Angeles. The previous 48-hour drive was in slower-paced suburban northwest Los Angeles. In every case, I enter the destination address and then engage FSD, using it essentially as a robotaxi. But I closely monitor the drive, ready to take back control of the car immediately if necessary. TL;DR: In brief, here's what happened in three separate incidents on Thursday: (1) the Model Y began to veer into opposing traffic. I had to intervene and take the steering wheel to get it back on course. The video below doesn't do the incident justice. It was the last thing I expected FSD v13.2.9 on a Tesla Model Y Juniper to do. (2) It took a right turn from the far-left lane. (3) It tried to go down a narrow 'no entry' private-access entrance that was blocked by a large gate. Previous Tesla FSD tests were great, uneventful I have been a proponent of Tesla FSD v13 because of the positive test drives I have had to date on various 2026 Model Ys with version 13 of FSD. (Before this test drive, a total of five.) Before Thursday's drive, the last was a 48-hour test drive. That test was uneventful (very favorable) and the Model Y with FSD performed essentially as a Robotaxi: I would punch in the destination and the Model Y would take me there safely, usually sans intervention. There were only a few interventions over the 48-hour period with most being very minor, such as the car going too slow or taking a route I didn't like. West Los Angeles That all changed on Thursday. Admittedly, West Los Angeles (Century City, Beverly Hills, West Hollywood) has some confusing intersections south of Santa Monica Blvd but I assumed FSD was capable of dealing with the occasional odd intersection. The first incident (video) was the worst mistake FSD made. It happened on Crescent Heights Blvd / McCarthy Vista. After the Model Y began to veer into opposing traffic, we ended up briefly at the end of a meridian strip. Then I steered the car back into the proper lane. In the second incident, it took a right turn from a left-hand lane that was marked as a through-lane (for traffic going straight). That was perplexing more than anything. In the third incident, when we had almost reached the end of our drive, it decided to turn down a narrow, rarely-used (as far as I could tell) service entrance with a pad-locked gate. I stopped the car immediately once it took the turn. 'Very Surprising' – says expert Ironically, this happened only a few hours after I did a Zoom interview with Jason Corso, a professor of robotics at University of Michigan and a co-founder of computer vision data platform Voxel51. In that interview (before the incidents) I had expressed a favorable opinion of Tesla FSD because of the positive test drives I had previously had. But I followed up on Friday with Corso post-incidents. The mistakes "are very surprising. Robust perception is hard," Coros said. "These types of incidences underscore the critical need to accurately study and assess safety across different scenarios and corner-cases, by studying model performance on them,' he said. In the Zoom interview, Corso compared FSD to Google's Waymo. 'You know, that's why Waymo has rich maps, they have lidar sensors, they have radar. They use cameras for a full sweep. Their basic point is we have to be able to have a rich sense of the state of what's happening in order to make decisions on that," he said. I also use Waymo often in West Los Angeles. Waymo occasionally makes mistakes with routes (i.e., taking a circuitous route) and can be a little too bold sometimes but it has never made a dangerous mistake in my experience. I will keep testing I test Advanced Driver Assist Systems (ADAS) constantly. Many from General Motors, which graciously has allowed me to test a number of their electric vehicles with the latest versions of Super Cruise. (This week I'm testing a Cadillac Vistiq, a new Cadillac EV model recently released.) But I will go back and test the Model Y again and plan to do another 48-hour test drive of the Model Y soon. I talked with a Tesla store representative after the incident and made it clear to him what happened. I emailed Tesla corporate but have yet to get a response.
Forbes
21-05-2025
- Business
- Forbes
3 Key Takeaways From The ‘No Tax On Tips' Act
IHOP (International House of Pancakes) Restaurant, April 9, 2011 in West Los Angeles, California. ... More (Photo by Bob Riha, Jr./Getty Images) As reported by Forbes, the Senate has unanimously passed the 'No Tax on Tips Act' in a unanimous vote. This bipartisan piece of legislation now heads to Trump's desk to be signed into law. This article highlights three key takeaways from the significant tax law change. The No Tax On Tips Act provides a tax deduction for cash tip wages reported to employers. However, there are key limitations. First, the amount that can be deducted is capped at $25,000. Thus, the bill actually means that some (rather than no taxes) will be paid on tips. Second, the deduction will not apply to taxpayers that earn more than $160,000. Third, the taxpayers who can take this deduction will be limited to certain occupations, which, according to The Guardian, will be provided by the US Department of Treasury within 90 days. The aim of these limitations is to limit loopholes. As I reported in Poole Thought Leadership, absent any limitations, high-earning individuals can game the system for their benefit. For instance, if the CEO of a company were to structure his or her's entire income as a tip, then, absent any limitations, he or she would be able to lower their tax liability considerably, even though the bill is not aimed at them. Given the limitations, the CEO would not be permitted any deduction because their occupation is not expected to be on the permitted list. The limitations also limit the wealthiest taxpayers from taking this deduction. Lastly, many tip-based taxpayers will not benefit from this bill because they make too little. With the 2025 standard deduction set at $15,000 for an individual taxpayer, Yahoo!News reports that 37% of tip-based taxpayers already pay no federal income taxes due to their taxable income already being less than the standard deduction. Once this bill is passed, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, states must conform their income taxes to the federal level for the workers to be exempt from state income taxes. This means that state legislators must begin to act soon to limit the tax liability on tip income for affected employees. For instance, if a taxpayer were to be earning $100,000 in tip income, the employee's income after the deduction at the federal level would be $75,000. However, absent any conformity, the income in the eyes of the state where they reside would be $100,000. As some states tax income of $100,000 as high as 9.30%, the taxpayer can still be subject to significant state tax burdens. States like North Carolina are already moving forward with these actions. Thus, tip-based taxpayers will need to watch whether their state allows this deduction closely. While it is required under law for tip-based taxpayers to report their tip earnings for tax purposes, they also receive benefits for having these funds reported as income. For instance, if a tip-based employee were to be trying to get a loan for a house or a vehicle, they would need to have documented income to support the lending decision. Furthermore, many taxpayers set aside some of this income to contribute to Social Security or other retirement accounts like IRAs. Early on in the legislative process for the No Tax On Tips Act, it was unclear how exactly the tips would not be subject to taxation. Specifically, the bill could have exempted the taxation from income or the bill could provide a deduction from income. While both would have resulted in the same effect on the taxpayer's tax liability, a key nuance is that exempted income (depending on how it was exempted) could affect how external entities perceive it and would potentially affect the taxpayer's ability to contribute to retirement. According to Kiplinger, the version of the bill passed by the Senate sided with the latter, protecting the tip-based taxpayer's ability to contribute the full amount to Social Security.
