Ferrari Luce price: $640K
Ferrari's first EV, the Luce, designed with help from Jony Ive, carries a starting price of approximately $640,000.
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TWiT 1086: The Great Beagle Migration - Pope Leo XIV's 1st Encyclical & Ferrari's 1st EV
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May 31, 2026
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Closing Credits and Sign-Off
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Leo Laporte wraps the show with individual plugs for each guest: garyrivlin.com for Gary Rivlin's AI Valley and future projects; citationneeded.news for Molly White's newsletter, podcast, and upcoming Citizens United episode; wheelbearings.media for Sam Abuelsamid's car podcast. Sam gets one final plug for Operation Frodo on Animal Rescue Rigs. Leo gives the full TWiT listener guide — the show streams 2-5 PM Pacific every Sunday on YouTube, Twitch, X, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Kick; audio and video downloads at twit.tv; Club TWiT at twit.tv/clubtwit for ad-free feeds and member Discord. He closes with the show's 21-year-old sign-off: 'Another TWiT is in the can.' A post-roll Mint Mobile sponsorship ad featuring Ryan Reynolds' voice follows.
Waymo's Growing Pains: Floodwaters, Roundabouts, and School Buses
Waymo robotaxis drove into floodwaters with passengers, got stuck circling roundabouts endlessly, and failed to recognize school buses. The company has paused all highway operations while it tries to diagnose problems in an AI-based system where the behavior is fundamentally harder to debug than the old rules-based approach. Sam Abuelsamid says nobody is making money on robotaxis yet — and won't be for years.
Waymo paused highway operations
Waymo paused all highway operations and reduced services in multiple cities after incidents including robotaxis driving into floodwaters and failing to recognize school buses.
Morgan Stanley: 30% rideshare autonomous by 2032
Morgan Stanley projects that 30% of the U.S. rideshare industry will be served by autonomous vehicles by 2032.
Ferrari Luce: Jony Ive Designs a $640K EV That Doesn't Look Like a Ferrari
Ferrari's first EV, the Luce, costs $640,000 and carries design input from Jony Ive's firm LoveFrom. Sam Abuelsamid's verdict: the interior is genuinely interesting, but the exterior could belong to any premium brand — it just doesn't look like a Ferrari. Many suspect this is essentially what Jony Ive wanted Apple's canceled Project Titan car to look like.
Operation Frodo: Rescuing Beagles Across America in EVs
Sam Abuelsamid's Operation Frodo charity drive transports rescue beagles from Nebraska to the Pacific Northwest, where demand for the breed far outstrips supply. This year's drive uses an all-electric vehicle fleet — Cadillac Escalade IQ, Lucid Gravity, Hyundai Ioniq 9, and Kia EV9 — covering 2,700 miles with free charging from EVgo at Pilot Flying J stations.
Operation Frodo: 88 dogs transported over 4 years
Sam Abuelsamid's Operation Frodo dog rescue has transported 88 dogs from Nebraska to the Pacific Northwest over four years, this year using an all-electric vehicle fleet.
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