Yesterday, GPD and GFD were dispatched to Grapevine Lake, where a Tesla Cybertruck was stranded in the water. The driver drove into the lake to use the “Wade Mode” feature when the vehicle became disabled. The passengers abandoned the vehicle and the driver was arrested. pic.twitter.com/iPJMaLzOEX
— Grapevine Police (@GrapevinePolice) May 19, 2026
The driver remains held in the Grapevine Jail on multiple charges, including operating a vehicle in a closed section of a park and having no valid boat registration.
In his weekly column in Sunday Age today, former 3AW broadcaster Neil Mitchell called for a rethink of Victoria’s road safety strategy which he believed had gone stale and was failing.
It’s time to chase ideas and engage the public. The strategy, the messaging and anything else that needs thought must be reviewed against the background that the plan has failed. And it should be bipartisan.
Forget the targets. We need an expert panel – led by somebody like former chief commissioner Ken Lay – to find out what has changed and what needs changing.
Driverless cars could be coming to NSW roads, with state bureaucrats secretly working on a proposed trial of Waymo robotaxis in Sydney.
The Daily Telegraph can reveal Transport Minister John Graham is “supportive” of testing the autonomous ridesharing cars in NSW, but any trial could be years away.
Confidential documents obtained under freedom of information laws reveal Transport for NSW (TfNSW) bosses met with executives from Waymo in March, as part of the company’s push to bring its driverless taxis down under.
I’m still amazed how the car market has changed so much in the last two decades.
Back then Holden Commodores and Ford Falcons (as large locally built sedans/wagons) were among the best sellers, the Toyota Prius was the only hybrid … most cars were larger capacity non turbos, including V6s and V8s, the latter two which are almost extinct (at least in petrol form). EVs were pretty much unheard of.
Jacqui Felgate had tried to get someone from VicRoads to appear on her 3AW drive show to explain the IT outage all afternoon, but to no avail. Instead, a VicRoads spokesperson will be on ABC Melbourne mornings today.
UPDATE
VicRoads corporate affairs officer Carly Dixon told 3AW Mornings host Heidi Murphy the system was slowly coming back online.
Police data shows that in 2025 alone, 140 cars were stolen from the airport’s car parks, almost double the 77 cars stolen there the year before.
The tyre spikes were installed three weeks ago and have already proved effective, with thieves foiled on two separate occasions after cars were caught on the spikes.
Airport data shows more than 60 cars have already been stolen from the airport’s car parks this year. Since the spikes were installed, however, only one car has been successfully stolen, with the owner leaving their credit card inside the vehicle and enabling the thief to pay and swipe out of the car park.
