Tuesday evening, June 2, 2026, around six o’clock, a train on Seattle’s Sound Transit 1 Line came to an abrupt stop. An obstruction sat on the elevated tracks near Mount Baker Station in a southeast neighborhood not far from downtown. The cause turned out to be a red Mazda CX-5 SUV that had driven onto the rails and kept going for roughly a quarter mile before getting stuck on the raised guideway.
Kimberly Carroll was due in court at Michigan’s 33rd District Court in Woodhaven on a Wednesday morning for what should have been a routine debt collection hearing. What followed was anything but. Carroll missed the initial call, earning herself a default judgment from Judge Michael K. McNally before the hearing had barely begun.
One car rolled out of California’s sun-kissed factories with a design so bold it could only be from the 1970s. Meet the Automecca Sports Van, a fiberglass oddity built on a Volkswagen Beetle chassis that combines surf culture, lounge aesthetics and a dash of automotive rebellion. This van, known as the Brubaker Box, was born from Curtis Brubaker’s vision and revived by Automecca’s ambition.
In the UK, a pensioner with just a mobility scooter and a navigation app turned a quiet Monday evening into a scene from a comedy movie. Out in East London, this unnamed guy took to the A13—a hectic 70mph highway linking Dagenham to Essex—following the digital trail laid out by his go-to Google Maps.
What you’re looking at is the world’s first and only Dragonfly three wheeler vehicle concept, built by a team led by mechanical engineer Greg Kunsch. This current prototype is powered by a 2.4-liter DOHC engine making 200 hp, but a fully electric model is in the works.