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Justin Hyde
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Corporate communications @ Mobileye, self-driving/safety technology that may be in your car already. Former automotive journalist with many interests beyond wheeled objects. Esse quam videri.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
www.facebook.com/share/1G9hJE... The Beetle R never made it to the U.S., but there was one Beetle R-Line put together on these shores and now it’s a FB Marketplace special:
November 14, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Age yourself with gaming
November 12, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The latest frontier in retail: quantum superposition.
August 22, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Some #autonomousvehicle news: meet the production Volkswagen ID.Buzz AD, a factory-built robotaxi from MOIA Mobility powered by Mobileye Drive autonomous driving tech. Built for rapidly scaling AV services, toward driverless operations in 2026:
June 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Reddit has been hard at work solving this problem for years: www.reddit.com/r/RaceTrackD...
May 28, 2025 at 4:17 PM
American innovation never sleeps:
May 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM
The Slate truck looks neat, and reminds me of the last time a Detroit automaker tried to build an ultra-low cost vehicle: the 1997 Chrysler CCV. Color-molded composite body panels were its main calling card, and Chrysler worked on that idea for years before setting it aside.
April 25, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Live long enough around the auto business and you get to see the first production vehicle reveal you covered as a reporter in this state:
April 19, 2025 at 1:05 AM
His name is Lee Iacocca. He loved America, but was also slighly Italian. He was buddies with the guy who ran Maserati (they did the DeTomaso Pantera together). And...:
March 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I need the #weirdcar people to discuss why John Mulaney is using a Chrysler TC by Maserati in his talk show promos.
March 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Not really any of your business, LinkedIn…?
January 22, 2025 at 10:08 PM
David Lynch made a lot of weird and great art and perhaps the greatest was a G-rated movie any family can watch:
January 16, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The AI search added this helpful* context

*hallucinated
January 13, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Here’s some of the tech on display at CES this week
January 10, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Here you go:
December 30, 2024 at 11:58 PM
Appreciate @pkrugman.bsky.social sharing this “It’s A Wonderful Life” mansplain so I can find a new way to be tactically insufferable at the holidays:
December 21, 2024 at 2:37 PM
Jaguar’s chief creative officer Gerry McGovern has launched a lot of high-viz, high-stakes concepts in his time, and no one who’s watched his work over the years should be all that surprised.
December 3, 2024 at 1:54 AM
Went wet w/24 hrs in the fridge and victory was ours:
November 28, 2024 at 8:32 PM
iPhone only
November 12, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Great talk by Paul Reed Smith on everything that goes into guitar making and his career. His advice for buying a guitar: open your stopwatch app and see how long a plucked low string resonates. (40 seconds is top notch)
November 10, 2024 at 12:16 AM
Not a commentary or judgement, just an observation that this is the first time I’ve seen this bumper sticker in the wild:
July 20, 2024 at 12:21 AM
It's a mix of things, including arcane EPA rules about GVWR, flat load floors and other stuff that I have forgotten. Here's everything EPA currently classifies as a wagon, which is a real hodgepodge:
June 13, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Saturn Sky Red Line. Fun, low to no unobtainum, fuel costs within reason, still worth something three years later. Just have to stay away from car washes and heavy downpours.
April 24, 2024 at 1:38 PM
This is how your email finds me:
April 22, 2024 at 1:32 PM