A Texas City Votes Today on 55 Flock Cameras. If Voters Say No, the Mayor Says They Go Dark in 72 Hours
League City, Texas, is asking its voters a question most cities never put on a...
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Pennsylvania’s House Voted 190-13 to Make Plate Readers Delete Data After 72 Hours. Flock’s Seven-Day Default Suddenly Looks Generous
The Pennsylvania House passed House Bill 2771 on Oct. 19 by a vote of 190-13,...
A Jacksonville Man Called 911 on His Stolen 2019 Yukon. It Was Repossessed 19 Days Before His First Payment Was Due
A Jacksonville, Florida, man called 911 on the evening of Oct. 6 to report his...
NHTSA Reviews Petition Alleging Ford’s 7.3L V8 Idles at 6 PSI of Oil Pressure, Then Got a 1,000-RPM Software Patch and No Recall
NHTSA opened defect petition DP26011 on Ford's 7.3L gasoline V8 in 54,787 E-350, F-59 and F-750 vehicles. It is a…
GM Dealers Pushed for Hybrids ‘Every Chance We Get’ While Toyota’s U.S. Sales Ran 57.4% Electrified — Now Mary Barra Says They’re Coming
Mary Barra told analysts on GM’s Oct. 20 earnings call that the company “will have...
Virginia Driver Says an Officer Claiming To Be FBI Pulled Her Over for the Left Lane, Then Showed Her a Map of Her Plate’s Travels
A woman in her 20s from northern Virginia was driving from New Orleans toward Florida...
Tesla Driver Told CHP the Car Was in Full Self-Driving When It Hit a Pedestrian on I-80 in Vallejo, Then Another Vehicle Didn’t Stop
A 71-year-old man was crossing westbound Interstate 80 at the Interstate 780 interchange in Vallejo,...
Land Rover Is Drilling Drain Holes in 93,997 Range Rover Tailgates Because Water Keeps Pooling on the Backup Camera
JLR's recall 26V678 covers 93,997 Range Rovers whose tailgate can pool water around the rearview camera.
GM Sold Your Braking Habits to Insurers, Then Paid $220 Million — Michigan Takes $7.2 Million, Drivers Get No Check
GM will pay $220 million to 36 attorneys general over Smart Driver data. Michigan gets $7,205,319, drivers get no restitution.…
Okinawa’s Kadena Air Base Bars BYD Vehicles as an ‘Unacceptable and Unmitigable’ Risk, Weeks After BYD Opened Its Only Okinawa Dealership
The 18th Wing barred BYD cars, taxis and trucks from Kadena Air Base on Okinawa but hasn’t said what the…
A 5,500-Gallon Chemical Leak Near Jeep’s Toledo Wrangler Plant Forced a 1-Mile Evacuation, Then Stellantis Canceled Two Shifts
Toledo Fire & Rescue ordered everyone within a mile of 1266 Progress Ave. in North...
Hayabusa Rider Runs From a Georgia Trooper on I-20 in Atlanta, Then Flips Onto a Cruiser’s Hood at a Blocked Intersection
Dashcam video shows a Hayabusa rider fleeing a Georgia State Patrol trooper on I-20 in Atlanta, then hitting a cruiser's…
A Texas Deputy Held a Houston Man 76 Minutes on I-35 Over a Claimed Fog Line Drift, Then a Federal Jury Awarded Him $76
A Bexar County sheriff’s deputy held Alek Schott, an oilfield equipment salesman from the Houston...
Tire Makers Helped Write the Guideline for the Radio Chip in Your Tires. It Says the Off Switch ‘Shall Be Disabled’ at the Factory
Passive RFID tags are cured into tires sold in the United States. The tag carries a unique, unchangeable serial number,…
VW Lost the Scout Direct-Sales Fight Over the Word “Affiliate,” Asked a California Judge for a Do-Over, and Got a Firm No
A federal judge refused to let Volkswagen and Scout reopen a dealer suit, and the dispute turns on a shared…