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Honda And Nissan Shared Car Software: What A Joint OS Would Really Change
Honda And Nissan Are Circling A Shared Vehicle OS — And Their Architectures Don’t Match Neither company has announced anything. There is no joint press release, no filing, no signed agreement on the public record as of this writing. What exists is a stack of official documents from both automakers over the past two years,…
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Ford Wanted to Patent a Car That Locks You Out and Drives Itself to the Junkyard. The Government Said No.
A Ford Bronco did not get bricked in traffic on a Michigan expressway last week. Ford says so on the record, and the truck in the viral clip does not even carry the hardware that would make it possible. That should have ended the story right there. Instead it dragged something stranger into daylight: three…
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Hertz Fleet Depreciation Lawsuit: What The DPU Collapse Really Means
Hertz Told Investors The Fleet Was Fixed. Six Weeks Later, The Disposal Lane Said Otherwise A federal securities class action is now pending against Hertz Global Holdings in the Middle District of Florida, captioned Cameron Schweitzer v. Hertz Global Holdings, Inc. et al., No. 2:26-cv-02242, covering purchasers between May 7 and June 23, 2026, with…
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A Truck Driver Rammed Down Three License Plate Cameras in Rural California. Flock Safety Barely Noticed
Marcus Bee allegedly drove roughly 150 miles from his home in Pismo Beach to a remote stretch of agricultural backroad in Monterey County, steered his pickup truck into a roadside ditch, and ran over a pole holding a solar-powered camera. Then, according to investigators, he did it two more times, at two more locations. The…
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Mercedes Recalled 310,000 Cars Over a Rollaway Risk, and the Parking Brake Was Never the Problem
Somewhere in a driveway right now, a Mercedes-Benz is trusting the wrong thing. Not its brakes. Not its transmission. A door switch. Because that switch has quietly corroded inside the driver’s door lock, the car may never get the memo that it’s supposed to hold itself in place. That’s the real story buried inside Mercedes-Benz…
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This State’s New AI Truck Cameras Aren’t Really About Safety. They’re About Lawsuits.
New Hampshire announced this week that its Department of Transportation is wiring artificial intelligence cameras into its state vehicles. Local coverage played it like a gadget story: smart cameras that spot crashes, log near-misses, and watch snowplows work through a storm. That’s the press release version. The real story sits one layer down, in a…
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Inside the Senate Connected Vehicle Bill: Airbags, Batteries and the 15% Rule
Everyone is chasing the same number this week: 15 percent. That’s the Chinese-ownership ceiling in the Senate’s connected-vehicle bill, and it’s the reason Mercedes-Benz spent last week in headlines it did not want. Fine. But the number I’d actually be reading is 450 megahertz, and the sentence I’d be reading twice is the one that…
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2026 Audi A6 IIHS Ratings: The Cheapest Trim Has the Best Headlights
The ninth-generation A6 landed a Top Safety Pick+ from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety on July 9, one of four 2026 models to clear the bar in a nine-vehicle batch. That’s the headline Audi’s PR department wants, and it’s earned. But the trophy is a pass/fail summary of a rating sheet with a lot…
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Stellantis Is Profitable Again. It Also Just Told You Which Of Its 14 Brands Don’t Matter.
Stellantis reported a profit on Thursday. Wire copy treated it as a comeback story: red ink to black ink, two quarters running, crisis apparently over. That’s the headline. It is not the story. Buried in the same set of filings, and in the strategic plan the company unveiled two months earlier, Stellantis told its own…
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Audi H1 2026 Results: Profit Held, Guidance Cut, and a CFO Asking VW for Help
There is a specific kind of corporate statement that tells you more than the spreadsheet attached to it. Audi filed one on July 27. The Ingolstadt brand’s half-year figures show operating profit of €1.122 billion, up marginally from €1.087 billion a year ago. Operating margin climbed from 3.3 to 3.8 percent. Net cash flow more…
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Californians Are Turning Against Newsom’s EV Mandate. Someone Should Tell Them It’s Already Dead.
A new poll making the rounds this week claims nearly two-thirds of Californians oppose Governor Gavin Newsom’s rule requiring every new car sold in the state to be zero-emission by 2035. Cue the outrage columns. Cue the triumphant “the market has spoken” commentary. Here’s the part almost nobody writing about that poll bothered to check:…
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Rivian Blamed Its Mechanics for a Falling-Apart Rear Suspension. Two New Crashes Say That Wasn’t the Whole Story
Rivian already recalled its rear toe link once. NHTSA’s new investigation shows that recall covered barely a sixth of the vehicles now in question, and two fresh crashes just proved bad wrenching wasn’t the whole story.
