A construction worker died after a horrific fall onto Biscayne Boulevard on Monday, March 23, according to reporting from The Miami Herald.
No name has been released as of Wednesday, March 25. Officials with Florida Highway Patrol told reporters that the incident happened just before 4 a.m. The man fell about 20 feet from the overpass on Interstate 395, landing on the street.
He died at the scene, and the area was closed as officials and emergency responders investigated the incident.
A lawsuit has been filed on behalf of the family of a Jupiter, Florida, man who died by suicide after forming an attachment with an Artificial Intelligence Chatbot, according to reporting from The Miami Herald.
Last fall, 36-year-old Jonathan Gavalas was speaking to Gemini AI, run by Google whose parent company is Alphabet Inc.
In the article, reporters said that Gavalas, who was facing a domestic violence charge and whose wife allegedly wanted a divorce, “could not get over how real” the chatbot seemed and “fell in love.” Gavalas was paying $250 a month for a premium version of the program, allowing him to speak with the bot who allegedly sent him out on “missions” in Miami to find it a “body the chatbot said it would inhabit.”
Just over a month after Waymo’s autonomous ride-hailing service was launched in Miami, the company is already facing dubious safety concerns.
Videos of one of the company’s autonomous vehicles stopped on the Venetian Causeway Bridge and causing a traffic backup went viral online last month. The incident sparked conversations online centered around safety.
Mykel Kochenderfer of the Stanford Intelligence Systems Laboratory told reporters with NBC 6 South Florida that companies like Waymo hoping to launch these programs “need to get it right.”
The family of a 61-year-old Uber driver who was suddenly attacked by a passenger during a ride has called for the company to do more to protect drivers.
“Please share this,” Nelson Carinao’s son wrote on his social media page following the attack. “I don’t wish this upon any parent. It is sickening that this kind of behavior was inflicted on my own father.”
The incident happened on Friday, Jan. 2 when Carinao picked up 19-year-old Isaiah Norton for a drive meant to go through Interstate 95 from Broward to Miami-Dade County, according to reporting from WSVN. After several minutes in the car, dashcam footage shows Norton repeatedly punching Carinao as he drove.
A woman was in for a shock this week when the vehicle she was in was hit by a plane attempting a crash landing.
The incident happened around 5:45 p.m. in Brevard County on Monday, Dec. 8, on I-95, according to reporting from WSVN. The 27-year-old pilot was attempting to make an emergency landing following an engine failure.
Miraculously, the 57-year-old driver was taken to the hospital with only minor injuries. Onlookers described the car, a 2023 Toyota Camry, as “crushed” except for the driver’s side.
A woman in Los Angeles was surprised when she and her daughter ordered a Waymo driverless taxi in the Westlake District and found a man hiding in the backseat.
The video, which has gone viral online with millions of views, shows the woman immediately questioning the man who claims that “the people” put him in the trunk.
Skeptical viewers questioned why the vehicles’ many cameras did not flag the man hiding inside the vehicle.
At least 14 suspected and confirmed cases of Legionnaires’ disease allegedly stemming from the same Orlando gym have been reported to the Florida Department of Health, according to local media.
While the Florida Department of Health has not released the name of the gym at the center of the outbreak, local media has identified the location as Crunch Fitness in Ocoee.
Sen. Carlos Guillermo Smith told reporters that the gym’s spa was closed due to violations found following a regulatory inspection. The inspection included testing disinfectant levels, temperature and water pH levels, according to local media.
The story at the heart of Netflix’s new documentary, “The Perfect Neighbor,” is one that has taken the internet by storm.
The film, which is comprised of the bodycam footage of responding officers in Marion County, Florida, shows the real-time incidents that lead up to the death of 35-year-old Ajike “A.J.” Owens.
Since its premiere on the streaming platform on Oct. 17, the film ranked as the top movie being watched on the app and hit 16.7 million views in its first three days. Users on TikTok and other short-form video platforms have made hundreds of viral videos with thousands of commenters weighing in on the devastating shooting.
A 13-year-old has been identified as the child who died in a Margate house fire along with his dog earlier this week, according to local media.
Gianni Jackson, a special needs teen who was “loved by everyone,” was the boy who died, his older brother told reporters with Channel 7 News. The incident happened Thursday afternoon on the 5500 block of Southwest Sixth Street.
Gianni was allegedly at home with his grandmother and had gone inside the home to take a shower after getting off the school bus, local media reported.
A man who died after riding a rollercoaster at one of Orlando’s newest amusement parks died from blunt force injuries, according to an Orange County medical examiner.
Kevin Rodriguez Zavala, 32, died due to “multiple blunt impact injuries,” according to reporting from The Miami Herald. The manner of his death has been ruled as an accident.
The incident happened on Wednesday, Sept. 17, at Epic universe when Zavala was found unresponsive after riding a rollercoaster. He was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
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