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Cops Pulled Over a Waymo With ‘No Driver, No Hands, No Clue.’ California’s Answer Is a Ticket With No Fine.
Since July 1, California police can write up driverless cars. The notice goes to the company and the DMV, and unlike a human driver’s ticket, it carries no fine.
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Tow Yard Wanted $960 to Hand Back a Petersburg Woman’s Stolen SUV, She Says. A Police Report Made It Free.
A Petersburg, Virginia, woman’s 2008 Volkswagen Tiguan was stolen from in front of her house at 6:30 a.m. on July 28. By July 31, she said, officers had found it less than a mile away and had it towed to Marby’s Garage & Towing on West Washington Street. When she went to pick it up,…
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Massachusetts Cop Let Two Stolen Challengers Go at 100+ MPH. One Came Back and Found the Stop Sticks, Police Say.
Auburn, Massachusetts, police say an officer let two stolen Dodge Challengers go at more than 100 mph rather than chase. One came back. Fleeing police in the state still carries a $100 fine.
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Thieves Took an Arizona Family’s Kia From the Driveway and Ditched It at a Church. A $4.5 Million Fund Could Pay Them Up to $2,250.
A Kia Sorento disappeared overnight from a family’s driveway in the Mountain Vista Ranch neighborhood of Surprise, Arizona, in early September. A few days later it turned up in a church parking lot a few blocks from the house, with little missing from inside and damage that cost the family hundreds of dollars to repair,…
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Chicago’s Speed Cameras Spat Out a Ticket Every 17 Seconds in 2024. Most Were for 6 to 10 MPH Over.
City records show Chicago mailed 1.84 million speed camera tickets in 2024. The $35 tier for 6 to 10 mph over produced most of them and two-thirds of the money.
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Ford Paid $10.5 Million in 2001 Over Grading Managers on a Curve. Now It’s Back in Court Over Job Bias.
A Sept. 28 federal employment-discrimination suit against Ford lands nearly 25 years after the company settled over grading managers on a fixed curve.
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Kansas Makes Dealers Post a $50,000 Bond to Protect Buyers. Two Wichita Customers Had to Sue to Get Any of It.
Two Sunset Auto Sales customers got $20,600 back from a Kansas dealer bond, not the dealer, after a lawsuit and a denied claim. How the $50,000 bond works, and where it runs out.
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A Couple in Their 80s and 90s Sued Scout Over Blasting at Its $2 Billion Plant. Scout Says Take It Up With the Contractors.
A Blythewood couple, 92 and 84, say construction of Scout Motors’ South Carolina plant drove them from their home. Scout blames its contractors. State blasting and takings law shape who pays.
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Corvette Driver Hit 147 MPH on A1A the Day He Bought It and Killed a Couple in a Jeep. He’s Getting 47 Years.
A Corvette driver hit 147 mph on A1A in Ormond-by-the-Sea, killed a couple in their Jeep and got 47 years. Florida scoresheet math explains the number.
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Mercedes Trips the China Car Bill’s 15% Wire. Volvo, Nearly 79% Geely-Owned, Already Has a Hall Pass.
Commerce cleared majority Geely-owned Volvo and refused Polestar under a control test. The Senate bill’s 15% ownership line would instead catch Mercedes, whose two Chinese shareholders hold 19.67%.
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Eleven Dead, Zero Importers Named: NHTSA’s DTN Airbag Order Has a Who-Pays Problem
NHTSA’s April order tells whoever imported DTN60DB airbag inflators to notify owners and fix them. Eleven deaths in, the agency still can’t say who that is or how many inflators are out there.
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Mavis Owes Pennsylvania $215,000 Over Alleged Unnecessary Repairs. You Don’t See a Dime Unless You Complain by Jan. 26.
Mavis Discount Tire agreed to pay Pennsylvania $215,000 over alleged unneeded and unfinished repairs. Only drivers who complain by January 26, 2027, can share in the $190,000 restitution fund.
