With movement around the landslide on Highway 1 repair site, Caltrans is now taking a new, modern approach to road building: remote-controlled bulldozers.

New video from Caltrans shows remote-controlled bulldozers working in April 2025 at the site of the Regent’s Slide that has closed Highway 1 on California’s Big Sur Coast.

The agency is using two remote-controlled bulldozers and one excavator, the agency said in a post on X. “Crews have been working extended hours at Regent’s Slide, seven days a week as weather ...