Writing
I write about things I find interesting. Technology, cars, markets, collecting, and the systems behind how things work.
Interests
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The Auto Industry Isn't Making One Bet on Robots. It's Making Three.
Hyundai and BYD both said they would sell robots through their dealers. That got covered as one story about carmakers moving into robotics, but there are three separate bets underneath it, and they need completely different things to work.
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Monterey set a $758M record. The 1950s and 1960s were the only decades below guide.
The 2026 Monterey auctions produced a record total and a negative median for postwar classics at the same time. That is not a liquidity story. It is a taste story, and it breaks the collector car market into two things that no longer belong in one index.
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Nevada authorized roughly 8,000 robotaxis. The permit was the easy part.
Three companies got approval to run driverless fleets in Las Vegas. Having spent eight years running Tesla operations here, the hard part is not the software. It is bays, chargers, people and a site plan.