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IDScan Got Hacked. Guess Who’s Actually on the Hook — Not IDScan.
IDScan.net has confirmed the data breach behind 153 million leaked driver licenses. Under the FTC Safeguards Rule, the dealership that scanned the license, not the vendor that stored it, carries the 30-day federal reporting obligation.
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Tesla’s Latest FSD Update Will Grab the Wheel Mid-Crash, Whether You Want It To or Not
Tesla has spent years telling owners that Full Self-Driving is something you switch on. With FSD (Supervised) v14.3.9, it’s also something that can switch itself on. On September 4, the company’s AI team announced on X that v14.3.9 was about to roll out with a new active safety feature set, under which FSD Supervised can…
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Ford Just Made the F-150’s Base Engine Bigger. Thank a Federal Fine That’s Worth Exactly Nothing.
Ford’s 2027 F-150 replaces its 2.7-liter base engine with a 3.0-liter and puts the V8 back in King Ranch and Platinum. The reason isn’t in the press release. It’s in the U.S. Code.
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The Federal List of Truck Driving Schools Runs on the Honor System. Nobody Checks First.
A registered driving school told investigators its classroom was inside a school bus in the back of a trailer. It was legally on the federal registry, because getting listed is a form, not an inspection.
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Faraday Future Dodged a Nasdaq Delisting. The Fine Print Shows the FF 91 Automaker Fixed Its Books, Not Its Car Business
Buried in a Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the morning of September 17, 2026, Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc. (NASDAQ: FFAI) — the struggling EV startup behind the FF 91 Futurist luxury sedan — told investors it had pulled itself back from the edge of a Nasdaq delisting. The headline…
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Capital Automotive Takes Back Full Control of 49 Dealership Properties
There’s a decent chance the building where you signed your last car loan isn’t owned by the dealer whose name is on the sign. Plenty of franchised stores are rented, and one of the biggest landlords in that niche just tidied up its books in a way that says a lot about how Wall Street…
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Buyer Alert: 201,976 Jeep Grand Cherokee, Wagoneer, and Grand Wagoneer SUVs Recalled Over a Tire-Pressure Warning That May Never Light Up
Stellantis is recalling 201,976 Jeep Grand Cherokee, Wagoneer, and related SUVs over software that can disable the tire-pressure warning. Here’s who’s affected and what owners should do.
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Your Engine Was Designed Around an Oil America Barely Makes. Now the Bill Is Due.
Costco is rationing motor oil and charging $5.80 a quart, but the cause is not crude prices. It is API Group III base oil, an ingredient modern engines require, America barely makes, and GM refuses to waive.
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Honda Won the World’s First Five-Star Road Safety Rating. It Says Nothing About How Safe Your Honda Actually Is.
The FIA Road Safety Index rates organisations, not cars — and its five-star tier did not exist until this year. What Honda actually did is more interesting than the award.
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Today in Automotive History: September 17, 1854 — The Birth of the Man Who Gave GM Its First Engine
On September 17, 1854, in the Scottish coastal town of Arbroath, a butcher’s assistant and a carpenter welcomed a son named David Dunbar Buick. He would never get rich off the company that carries his name, and he would die nearly broke. But the engine design he helped bring to market didn’t just launch a…
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Your Morning Automotive News Round-Up
Here is everything The Auto Wire published on Wednesday, September 16, 2026 — Stellantis selling its Brampton plant to an armoured-vehicle maker it already partners with, a federal judge refusing to let Porsche arbitrate away its Taycan battery-fire lawsuit, Beijing’s license-plate math against California’s new classic-car smog exemption, the 1908 bet that built General Motors,…
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The 3D-Printing Revolution in Cars Already Happened. It’s in the Tool Crib, Not on the Car.
A new large-format printer aimed at car factories has exactly the same build volume as the one before it, and weighs 159 kg more. The constraint was never size.
