The top-earning writer on the paid newsletter platform Substack earns more than $500,000 a year from reader subscriptions. The top content creator on Podia, a platform for video courses and digital memberships, makes more than $100,000 a month.

Link: https://a16z.com/2019/10/08/passion-economy/

In a move nobody saw coming, Honda is the new leader in commercially available vehicular autonomy tech. Carmakers have strived for the SAE’s third tier of vehicular autonomy for years, but none had achieved it yet.

Link: https://www.thedrive.com/news/39609/hondas-now-selling-the-worlds-first-production-car-with-level-3-self-driving-tech

Nasa’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars at 20:55 GMT on 18 February after almost seven months travelling from Earth. Since then, it has sent back some amazing images from around its landing site, Jezero Crater, a 49km (30-mile) wide impact depression just north of the Red Planet’s equator.

Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-56238018

Just last month, it was revealed that Norwegian will say goodbye to two Boeing 787 Dreamliners and 12 Boeing 737 MAX 8s. However, the airline’s CFO, Geir Karlsen, has now shared that his company will let go of all of its MAX aircraft.

Link: https://simpleflying.com/norwegian-drops-737-max/