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Tesla FSD Probe: NHTSA Demands Internal “Radar Saves Us” File
NHTSA Goes Looking For The Radar Tesla Threw Away There’s a genre of internal engineering document that no company ever wants a federal investigator to see, and it’s the one with a blunt title. Somewhere inside Tesla is a file called “Radar Saves Us.” The Office of Defects Investigation knows it exists because Tesla handed…
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He Allegedly Stole and Torched a Chevy Suburban. His Loyalty Card Turned Him In First.
Phoenix police say a 31-year-old man stole a Chevrolet Suburban from behind a Safeway, drove it across town, and set it on fire in a quiet north Phoenix neighborhood. On its own, that’s a Tuesday-night crime blotter item. Stolen SUVs get torched in this country more often than most owners realize. What actually makes this…
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Pep Boys Sold to Mavis for $700M — But Icahn Kept the Real Estate
Icahn Kept the Dirt and Sold the Garages: Inside the $700 Million Pep Boys Handoff Carl Icahn is out of the repair-shop business, and the way he got out is more interesting than the price tag. Icahn Enterprises and Mavis Tire Express Services announced Tuesday that a Mavis subsidiary will buy Pep Boys from Icahn…
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A Georgia Crime Center Supervisor Got Busted Using Flock to Track Her Partner’s Car. She’s Also the Least Interesting Part of This Story.
Paige Forte did not chase a stolen Charger across three counties, crack a gang case, or find a missing child. According to Rockdale County Jail records, the 30-year-old supervisor at the Conyers Police Department’s Real-Time Crime Center used one of the most powerful vehicle-tracking databases in the country to keep tabs on her domestic partner’s…
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Porsche Just Raised Its Layoff Total to 8,900. The Growth Rate Is the Real Warning Sign
Porsche’s supervisory board didn’t just approve another 5,000 job cuts this week. It quietly admitted that the company’s own turnaround math, barely four months old, was already wrong. Garage Deals: Nowell Leather’s Hand-Stitched EDC Gear Belongs in Every Gearhead’s Glovebox Start with the number that should stop you before any talk of China or tariffs.…
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Inside Hyundai’s New $5B Georgia Battery Plant — And What It Means for IONIQ Prices
Hyundai just flipped the switch on another piece of its Georgia empire, and the number that keeps getting quoted — “enough batteries for 300,000 EVs a year” — is the least interesting part of the story. The plant that started churning out cells in Bartow County is a $5 billion joint venture with SK On…
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Bentley Torcal EV Sound: Why Its First Electric SUV Plays Drums, Not a Fake V8
Bentley’s First EV Won’t Fake a V8 — It Hired Musicians to Score One Instead Every EV maker with a charismatic combustion past eventually runs into the same wall: electric motors are magnificently competent and almost completely mute, and silence doesn’t sell $200,000 cars. The usual fix is to pipe in a synthesized approximation of…
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Tesla Engineers Wrote a Memo Called ‘Radar Saves Us.’ Then Tesla Ripped Out the Radar Anyway.
Somewhere in Tesla’s files sits a document titled “Radar Saves Us.” Two words past the actual headline, and it may be the most damaging sentence Tesla never intended the public to read. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration wants that document now, along with every email, test result, and internal argument that produced it. But…
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Grupo Antolin Filed 36 Cases In A New York Bankruptcy Court This Week. None Of Them Are Actually Bankruptcies
This week, a Spanish restructuring executive walked into a federal courtroom in lower Manhattan and asked an American judge to help her get ahead of a pile of angry creditors. The company she runs, Grupo Antolin, employs 20,000 people and builds the dashboards, door panels, headliners and sun visors sitting inside nine of the ten…
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Why Tesla Bolted a Starlink Dish Into a Robotaxi That Doesn’t Need One
Tesla dropped a hardware reveal that reads like a solution in search of a problem: its purpose-built robotaxi, the Cybercab, will ship with a Starlink dish baked into it. The company posted a cutaway on July 20 with the caption “Starlink V5 directly integrated in Cybercab,” slotting the satellite terminal in among the eight cameras,…
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Japan’s 90% Lithium Recovery: The Battery-Recycling Chemistry Trick Explained
Japan’s 90% Lithium Trick Is a Chemistry Swap, Not a Miracle — and the Real Bottleneck Has Nothing to Do With Chemistry Every so often a battery-recycling headline goes around promising that we’ve finally cracked the code on dead EV packs. The latest one comes out of Tsuruga, on Japan’s Fukui coast, where a company…
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Honda’s Rear Windows Keep Shattering For No Reason. Honda Found A Legal Word That Isn’t ‘Recall.’
Somewhere in Montreal last January, in the kind of cold that turns steering wheels into ice cubes, a man closed the tailgate of his 2019 Acura RDX. Not hard. Just closed it. And the rear window came apart — not cracked, not chipped, but reduced instantly to a pile of pebbled glass, with a bang…
