| Even in the midst of a pandemic, never doubt the world's ability to surprise. Last week, we tracked some remarkable trends. Serious crashes are, blessedly, down in California, according to a new analysis—people aren't really traveling after that whole shelter-in-place thing. While delivery robots (and the companies that built them) are trying their best to pitch in right now, not all are ready for showtime. Oh, and Elon Musk went on a tear last week, calling shelter-in-place orders "facist" even as he celebrated Tesla's strong first quarter. It's been a week. Let's get you caught up. Headlines Stories you might have missed from WIRED In February, the cruise ship Diamond Princess captivated the world as it docked in Japan with coronavirus-infected passengers on board. Here's the inside story of the ship—3,711 people who became subjects in a life-and-death quarantine experiment. Delivery robot companies are trying to help humans get their groceries and food without going outside. But the companies' tech and business models aren't quite ready for world domination. Silver linings? A new study finds that California lockdown restrictions reduced crashes that kill or seriously injure people by 50 percent. Airlines are struggling to stay alive during the pandemic, and experts say keeping them around will require some painful sacrifice. Jaguar's director of design shares his predictions for the post-pandemic world. And in Tesla news: The electric-car maker posts a surprising profit, Elon Musk agitates for an end to shelter-in-place orders (against public health officials' recommendations), and then he maybe violates an SEC settlement? Always a trip. Extremely Expensive Collision of the Week Airbus and Boeing are airplane manufacturing rivals, and it's rare to see the two companies hanging out together. Much less slamming together, as two planes built by the airplane-makers did last week at Doha Hamad International Airport in Qatar. Extremely strong winds smacked a parked A350-900 and a 787-8 into each other. It appears no one was hurt in the collision, and it's unclear how much damage was sustained by the airplanes. Regardless: Ouch! Stat of the Week: 48 Percent The share of the US airline fleet that domestic carriers had idled, as of April 27—2,965 aircraft in all. That number comes from lobbying group Airlines for America, which also reports that passenger volumes are down 97 percent compared with last year. Required Reading News from elsewhere on the internet GM + Ford detail how they'll reopen their factories. Waymo on how it's testing during the pandemic. Cruise is using some of its self-driving cars—still in testing—to deliver food bank meals to families in need. McLaren recalls more than 2,700 Senna supercars over malfunctions that could cause fires. 👀 A parking garage-to-apartment conversion in Barcelona 👀 Sure, deliveries are up. But UPS is slashing capital expenditures by $1 billion after home deliveries rise but business deliveries fall. Car rental company Hertz preps for possible bankruptcy. Parking businesses' revenue is down—but some creative folks are figuring out ways to repurpose the spaces and make money anyway. Put the New Yorker's latest in your podcast queue: Trump vs. the United States Postal Service. In the Rearview Essential stories from WIRED's canon From 2005: "La vida robot: How four mexican immigrant kids and their cheap robot beat MIT." | 
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