Andrew J. Hawkins

Car brands are not typically the most adventurous tweeters, but kudos to French automaker Citroën (or more accurately, to the social media manager who may or may not have sought corporate approval) for keeping a sunny outlook in the face of all this depressing craziness.

The news that Argo AI is shutting down has me reminiscing about the good ole days of the autonomous vehicles boom, when the future still looked bright and promising. Back in 2018, I went down to Miami to immerse myself in Argo’s Westworld-style demo, complete with fake taxi stands and empty takeout containers. Read the story and be transported back to a time when AVs were going to transform cities, unprotected left turns would be solved eventually, and all was right with the world.