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O’Reilly TCPA Settlement Explained: Reassigned Numbers, Do-Not-Call Rules and Claim Deadlines
Here’s the part of this story that nobody’s leading with: O’Reilly may well have had permission to text every single number on the list. That’s the whole problem. The case is Bryan v. O’Reilly Automotive, Inc., No. 2026CH000016, sitting in the Circuit Court of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit in LaSalle County, Illinois. O’Reilly agreed to…
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Inside Tesla’s 64-Stall Queens Supercharger: Power, Utility Costs and Rideshare Demand
A 64-stall Supercharger is going up in Maspeth, Queens, and the framing everywhere is that it’s a mega-stop for people driving out to Montauk. That framing is wrong, and the reason it’s wrong is more interesting than the stall count. Start with a correction, though, because the number being passed around doesn’t survive contact with…
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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 Cybercab, possibly before the end of August, according to a report from The Information relayed by CBT News. The obvious story here is that Tesla is finally putting Cybercab on the street. The more useful question is why Tesla’s own…
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Voyah Passion S Tunnel Loop: The Physics Behind China’s Schumacher Tribute
Sixteen years ago Mercedes ran a spot in which an SLS AMG corkscrewed around the inside of a tunnel, and people have been arguing about whether it was real ever since. Voyah — Dongfeng’s premium electric brand, headquartered in Wuhan — decided the way to launch a new crossover was to go do it again,…
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Trump’s 50% Canada Car Tariff Got a Three-Day Pause. The Fine Print Shows It Was Built to Tax Detroit’s Own Factories
For three days this week, Washington and Ottawa get to act like a trade crisis got solved. It didn’t. On August 18, the White House suspended a fresh round of tariffs on Canadian alcohol, dairy, and motor vehicles that were set to run as high as 50 percent. The suspension expires at 12:01 a.m. on…
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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 why an officer is running a license plate. “Traffic infraction” is one of the options. Nothing downstream checks whether that’s true. That gap, not the officer now accused of exploiting it, is the real story out of Massachusetts this month.…
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Ford 1.0L EcoBoost Timing Belt Failures Trigger NHTSA Engineering Analysis
Ford’s little 1.0-liter three-cylinder has two rubber belts spinning around inside the crankcase, bathed in engine oil. One of them was recalled two years ago. Federal investigators have now decided the second one deserves the same scrutiny. On July 31, NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation escalated its look at Ford’s 1.0L timing belt from a…
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A Mavis Manager Allegedly Helped Steal 438 Tires From His Own Store — and Somebody Else’s Security Cameras Ratted Him Out
Nobody broke into the Mavis Tires and Brakes on Chastain Meadows Parkway. Nobody had to. According to Cobb County court records, the man loading tires into a truck after hours simply had a manager waiting to let him in. That’s the detail that turns this from a small-time theft blotter item into something worth a…
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Hyundai’s First Full Strike in 10 Years Isn’t About Pay. It’s About a Law That Made Walking Out Basically Free.
Hyundai Motor’s assembly lines in Ulsan will sit completely still for eight hours this Friday. Plants pause for holidays, floods, and chip shortages all the time, so on its own that wouldn’t be news. What makes it news is that Hyundai’s union hasn’t called a full, all-day walkout since 2016. A decade of partial, symbolic…
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Used Cars Just Hit a Record $32,461 — and Your ‘Buy a Toyota, It Holds Value’ Advice Just Backfired
Buy a Toyota, the old advice goes. It holds its value. Three generations of car shoppers have heard some version of that line, usually from a parent, a mechanic, or a coworker who swears by their Corolla. It’s good advice if you’re the one selling. New data from Edmunds suggests it just became a trap…
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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. The fraud allegations matter less than what they reveal about how thin the verification is behind the entire subprime auto securitization market.
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America Didn’t Ban Polestar’s Factory. It Banned Its Owner.
Prestige Imports wants $25 million from Polestar, and its lawsuit reads like a straightforward betrayal story: a manufacturer that spent two years quietly planning its exit, then hid behind a federal ban to avoid paying for it. A New Jersey court will eventually decide whether that’s true. But underneath the lawsuit sits a stranger, more…
