Lucid Just Recalled More Cars Than It Sold All Last Year — Because the Tail Lights Might Start a Fire
Lucid Motors has now recalled more cars over a fire risk than it delivered in...
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Mazda’s New Safety Feature Sounds Great Until You Realize Mazda Built None Of It
Mazda wants credit today for making the highway shoulder a safer place. Read past the...
China’s Largest Headlight Supplier Fired 107 New Grads in Weeks — But Still Found Cash for a Dividend
Xingyu Automotive Lighting Systems makes the adaptive LED headlights that bend light around oncoming traffic...
F1’s Engine Report Card Says Red Bull Is Winning. Even Red Bull Doesn’t Believe It.
Formula 1 released its midseason engine report card this week, and the team sitting at...
Porsche Sold Its Own Consulting Arm, Then Paid Four Times as Much to Rent It Back
Porsche spent three decades building a consulting firm from scratch, spent 2023 buying out the...
Thieves Didn’t Hack This Lamborghini’s Security System. They Just Pointed a Gun at the Guy Holding the Keys
Nobody bypassed an immobilizer in Old City early Thursday morning. Nobody cloned a key fob,...
Stellantis Wants to Beam a Hologram Into Your Robotaxi’s Driver Seat. Here’s What It’s Not Telling You.
Somewhere in Stellantis’ latest patent filing sits an admission the company will never put in...
Street Outlaws Racer Dies Following Crash at Ohio’s KD Motorsports Park
The drag racing world lost one of its own this weekend. Chris “Block” Gordon, a...
Advance Auto Parts’ Profit More Than Tripled. Its Actual Business Barely Grew At All.
Advance Auto Parts wants you to believe it turned a corner last quarter. Net income...
Right to Repair Just Won in Congress. Don’t Celebrate Yet.
On May 21, the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 48 to 1 to advance...
Mazda Patented a Fix for the Rotary Engine’s Dirtiest Secret. The RX-7 Crowd Should Pump the Brakes
Every time Mazda files a patent with the word “rotary” anywhere near it, the same...
Flock’s CEO Compared Banning His Cameras to Banning Cars. His Own Website Proves the Analogy Backwards
Garrett Langley, the CEO of Flock Safety, picked an odd hill to defend this week....
BMW Patented a Trunk Lid That Swallows Your Charging Cable — And That’s Not Even the Interesting Part
Somewhere in Munich, a BMW engineer just solved a problem that has nothing to do...
Black Hat Just Proved Your EV Charger Can Infect Your Car—And Everything Else Nearby
Forget air-gapped security discussions. Forget the naive assumption that physical charging hardware couldn’t be turned...
Waymo Told NHTSA How It Decides School-Zone Speeds. Then It Blacked Out the Answer.
A nine-year-old girl in Santa Monica is fine. She stood up, walked to the curb,...