Super Realistic Boats, 6-Foot Wide Driveway House And The Cyberhammer In This Week's Beyond Cars Roundup

City and housing community municipal codes seem to target people who like working on their vehicles or parking them in plain sight, but one Seaside, California man found a creative way to flip a figurative bird to these frivolous codes. Etienne Constable received a notice from the city requesting he comply with a municipal code restricting parking for non-passenger vehicles, and he had to store his boat behind a 6-foot-high fence so it wouldn’t be visible from the street. Constable found a creative way to comply while still conveying distaste by having a neighbor and muralist paint his new fence to appear invisible. - Logan Carter Read More

A Beechcraft V35 crashed near Franklin, Tennessee on Wednesday, killing all three people onboard. This wasn’t the typical single-engine plane crash, as Initial findings indicate the aircraft broke apart in the sky, ABC News reports. A 911 caller reported hearing an explosion that is believed to be the crash, according to the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office. Federal investigators are now combing through the debris field, looking for answers. - Ryan Erik King Read More

Despite, well, not being that tough, a big chunk of the Tesla Cybertruck’s perceived value is that it is super duper tough. The automaker seems to have realized this is a winning marketing strategy, so it decided to introduce a new product called the CyberHammer. Much like the truck, it’s just for show. - Andy Kalmowitz Read More

The Washington D.C. area real estate market is kind of a mess right now. The city is packed with relatively high income earners, and most of the people who wanted homes bought in with low-interest loans a few years ago. Every single family home or condo that hits the market is scooped up quickly and the combination of high density and city zoning makes it difficult to build new homes fast enough to sate demand. In a roundabout way, that explains how this narrow house was built in a driveway. Every piece of even marginally useful land is being developed. Even the parking is being turned into housing. - Bradley Brownell Read More

More than six weeks after it struck and destroyed the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore, the Dali container ship has finally been freed after engineers blew up remnants of the bridge. Explosives experts from the U.S. Army were called in to explode a remaining bridge section, which had pinned the ship in place. - Owen Bellwood Read More

Tesla boss Elon Musk has his fingers in quite a few pies these days, with half his mind working to improve electric vehicles for the masses, some of it working to save social media from bots and a bit more working on taking us to Mars. When he’s not doing that, he’s also leading a company that knew its brain chips could malfunction but still implanted them into a living person. - Owen Bellwood Read More

A fully-loaded Boeing 737-800 has room for 189 seats, and with U.S. airports having a track record of losing around 0.75 percent of all checked bags, it’s all but guaranteed that one person on this theoretical plane is going to get to their destination without a change of clothes or their swim trunks and sandals. I can tell you one thing, it sure as shit isn’t going to be me. I haven’t checked my bag since 2012, and I don’t plan on changing that. I know where my change of underwear is, do you? - Bradley Brownell Read More

Former President Donald Trump’s Boeing 757 struck a parked corporate jet on the tarmac of West Palm Beach International Airport on Sunday. No one was hurt in the collision, but the Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the incident. The taxi mishap is just a drop in the legal complication bucket of the candidate who once said, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK? It’s, like, incredible.” - Ryan Erik King Read More

A barge in Galveston, Texas slammed into a bridge on the morning of May 15, spilling oil into the water and forcing officials to shut down the bridge’s eastern span. Additionally, it appears that a second section of the rail line that runs alongside the bridge has collapsed into the water below with slabs of concrete piling up on the barge. - Andy Kalmowitz Read More

For years now, carbon capture has been hailed as a way to have our environmental cake and eat it too: Keep spewing all the harmful gases we like into the environment, and just grab them back out of the air before they can do any real damage. Last week, a new facility in Iceland claiming to be the world’s largest carbon capture plant opened to do just that job — only, it’s not nearly enough. - Amber DaSilva Read More