The EPA Calls This a Gas Price ‘Emergency.’ It’s Been One Since May.
Gas is about to get a little cheaper for the last stretch of summer. That’s...
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GEICO’s $1.65 Million Settlement Isn’t About the $150 Checks — It’s About the File That Sets Your Rate
A federal judge in Maryland is scheduled to sign off in January on a settlement...
Stellantis Patented Emergency Lights for Cars That Have Already Rolled Over
Every taillight ever engineered assumes the car will stay right-side up. Stellantis just filed a...
Stellantis Filed Three Backup-Camera Recalls in Three Months. The First Two Covered Only 75 Cars.
Stellantis didn’t tell federal safety regulators about a blank backup camera once this summer. It...
Wall Street Cheered a Bronco Pickup That Doesn’t Exist. It Ignored 565,691 Real Ones With a Fire Risk.
On Wednesday, Ford stock jumped 4% on a rumor about a truck that does not...
Tesla’s Cybercab Has No Steering Wheel and No Backup Plan — Which Is Why Employees Ride First, Not You
Tesla has reportedly told employees to be ready for the first public-road rides in the...
259 Plate Searches, Zero Warrants: A Cop Turned Traffic Cameras Into Her Personal Stalking Tool
There’s a dropdown menu inside the New Bedford Police Department’s Flock cameras terminal that asks...
Tricolor Raised $1.9 Billion on Subprime Car Loans. The SEC Says Its Execs Pledged the Same Ones Twice
The SEC says Tricolor's top executives pledged the same subprime car loans to more than one Wall Street bond deal.…
31 Felony Charges Later, Georgia’s Tag Office Has One Very Awkward Question: Who Else Has Her Login?
Every title-fraud story The Auto Wire has covered shares one plot point: someone had to...
Blame Yourself: America Lets the Fastest Drivers Write the Speed Limits
AAA says speeding is the new normal. The deeper story is that America sets speed limits from how fast drivers…
Florida’s Flashy New ‘Super Speeder’ Law Grabbed the Headlines — a Forgotten 1971 Statute Grabbed the License
Quashay Frazier Jr. lost a drag race on the Buckman Bridge in Jacksonville on a...
Washington Dusted Off a 96-Year-Old Tariff Law Nobody Had Ever Used — and Detroit Is the Guinea Pig
Forget the 50 percent. Forget the wine, the dairy, and the hockey sticks that made...
Avis Briefly Became a $27 Billion Meme Stock — Its Own Books Said It Was Worthless
For a few days in April, Wall Street decided that Avis Budget Group – the...
A Robot Didn’t Kill This Stellantis Mechanic. A Bypass Key Did, and OSHA Predicted It Decades Ago.
Nobody has ever been crushed by an industrial robot that was doing exactly what its...
Two BMW Street Racers Killed a Grandmother in Florida. The Law Says the Passengers, Spectators, and Camera Phones Could Be Just as Guilty.
Two men in two BMWs are facing vehicular homicide charges after a street race in...