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E-Bike Accidents Jumped 18.6x in Five Years. California’s Answer: License Plates.
184 incidents in 2018. 3,429 by 2023. That 18.6-fold jump in reported e-bike accidents, according to data from the American College of Surgeons, is the number driving California lawmakers toward a solution that sounds more like something you’d expect for a motorcycle than a bicycle. From Speed Limits to License Plates California already passed SB-1271…
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44 Handguns, 79 Magazines, One C8 Corvette: Inside a Failed Border Gun-Smuggling Attempt
A mid-engine Corvette built to hit nearly 200 mph on a track met its match at a border checkpoint that doesn’t care how fast a car can go. According to federal authorities, what agents found stashed inside wasn’t luggage — it was 44 handguns and 79 magazines. An Outbound Stop That Looked Routine — At…
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Beyond the Crash: The Legal Theory Behind This $1M Cybertruck Autopilot Lawsuit
A Texas woman’s Cybertruck lawsuit isn’t just a story about one crash on a Houston overpass — it’s built on a legal argument that Tesla’s entire approach to driver-assistance technology is fundamentally flawed, and it’s landing in a courtroom environment that’s grown considerably less friendly to Tesla’s marketing claims. What the Complaint Actually Argues According…
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Aston Martin’s Second Round of Layoffs This Year Is Betting Everything on One Car
Aston Martin is cutting 20% of its 3,000-person workforce — its second round of job cuts this year — after a £493 million loss in 2025 that’s forcing the British supercar maker to lean almost entirely on a single new model to turn things around. The Financial Picture Behind the Cuts The numbers explain the…
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A Chrysler 300 Outran Georgia State Patrol’s Mustangs for 7 Minutes. Here’s How.
A white Chrysler 300 that looked like nothing special turned a routine traffic stop into a seven-minute pursuit that ended with troopers losing the car entirely — Mustangs included. A Routine Stop That Went Sideways in Seconds Dashcam footage that recently surfaced through a records request shows a Georgia State Patrol trooper, identified as Trooper…
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Seven Seconds: How Fast an Omaha Intersection Swallowed Two Vehicles Whole
Security cameras caught the entire sequence: two vehicles roll to a stop at a red light, and seven seconds later the pavement beneath them is simply gone. What the Footage Actually Shows The collapse happened around 3:30 p.m. at the intersection of 67th Street and Pacific Street in Omaha, Nebraska, where a maroon sinkhole opened…
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A Honk Allegedly Triggered an Orlando Road Rage Attack on a Pregnant Driver and an Officer
Police say the confrontation started with nothing more than a car horn — and ended with two drivers allegedly attacked, an officer allegedly bitten, and a $20,000 bond. What Investigators Say Happened The incident unfolded on Conroy Road near Millenia Boulevard, where authorities say a 35-year-old pregnant woman was driving a van with her baby…
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TVR Only Built One ‘White Elephant’ — And It Doubled as a Gun Dog Hauler
Somewhere between a flagship prototype and a company owner’s personal daily driver sits the 1988 TVR White Elephant — the only one ever built, and it’s now for sale in Leicester, England, after spending years forgotten in a factory. A Prototype Built as TVR’s Potential Flagship Then-managing director Peter Wheeler commissioned the White Elephant as…
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640,000 Nissan Rogues Recalled for Two Separate Problems — One Could Start a Fire
Nissan is recalling more than 640,000 Rogue SUVs in the United States across two unrelated safety campaigns, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration — and one of them carries a genuine fire risk. Recall One: A Bearing Failure That Could Leak Hot Oil The larger campaign covers 323,917 Rogue SUVs equipped with the…
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Suspiciously Cheap Listings Tipped Off Investigators to an Unlicensed Texas Dealership
A high-performance sports car listed at an unusually low price was enough of a red flag to unravel an unlicensed dealership operating in east Bexar County, Texas — and at least one buyer has already discovered he can’t legally title the vehicle he bought there. How the Pricing Pattern Gave It Away The Bexar County…
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Lamborghini Just Killed Its First EV Before It Ever Reached Production
Lamborghini spent years teasing its first all-electric production car. Now it’s scrapping the project entirely, betting that plug-in hybrids — not batteries alone — are what its customers actually want. Why the Lanzador Never Made It to Production Lamborghini first unveiled the all-electric Lanzador concept back in 2023 as a future addition to its lineup,…
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A Tire Failure Ended a 5-Minute Houston Corvette Chase — Upside Down, Inside a Masonic Lodge
An Arctic White Chevrolet Corvette C8 convertible ran multiple red lights, refused to stop for police, and ended up on its roof inside a building — all in the span of about five minutes. How the Chase Started According to the Houston Police Department, officers first spotted the Corvette speeding on West Montgomery Road and…
