NHTSA Could Require Cars To Stop Before Backing Over A Kid. It’s Handing Out Gold Stars Instead.
Every new car sold in the United States will soon be legally required to stop...
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A Murder Case Alert Was Never Deleted — So Cops Pulled Guns On Innocent People Weeks Later
The camera did exactly what it was built to do. That’s the uncomfortable part. On...
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...
VW’s Layoffs Could Hit 140,000. The Family That Controls the Company Already Wrote Off the Loss and Went Shopping for Drones
Volkswagen wants the headline to be about jobs. On August 24, labor representatives told employees...
Hyundai Just Settled Its Strike. Its Next New Hire Doesn’t Need a Raise, a Union Card, or a Retirement Age.
Hyundai Motor and its union reached a tentative agreement this week to end the company’s...
China Isn’t Sneaking Into Europe’s Car Factories — Stellantis And Nissan Are Handing Over The Keys
Picture an Opel dealer in Zaragoza a couple of years from now, selling a compact...
Volkswagen’s ‘New’ EV Plan for India Isn’t New. It’s From 2022 — And a $1.4 Billion Tax Bill Might Kill It Again
Volkswagen wants you to know it’s “evaluating” ways to sell more electric cars in India:...
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...
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...
Volkswagen Wants an American Pickup Truck by 2030 – and Might Need Ford to Dodge a Tariff It Basically Invented
Volkswagen wants to sell you a pickup truck by 2030. Set that fact aside for...