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There’s a Wedge of Plastic in Your Windshield Whose Entire Job Is to Fool Your Eyes
A modern windshield is a restraint component, an optical instrument and a sensor mount. One layer inside it is deliberately tapered to stop your head-up display showing double.
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Lake Helen’s Speed Camera Numbers Went Viral for the Wrong Reason. Florida’s Fine Print Is the Real Story.
Lake Helen, Florida is home to 2,842 people, according to the 2020 Census. Over three and a half months this spring, the city’s two school-zone speed cameras logged 5,275 violations — enough for nearly two tickets per resident. That comparison is the kind of number that travels well online, and it has traveled. It is…
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Hansae Mobility Is Dropping $93 Million in Chesterfield. Michigan’s Measly $625,000 Grant Has Nothing to Do With It.
Hansae Mobility’s $93.2 million move to Chesterfield Township isn’t chasing a $625,000 state grant. It’s beating an auto-parts tariff offset that expires April 30, 2027.
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Suffolk County Didn’t Just Bust a Street Takeover. It Ran the Math on One.
Four people from Meriden, Connecticut, drove roughly two and a half hours to a business park in Yaphank, New York, early Sunday morning — and left with a truck, a trailer, a race car, and a set of criminal charges instead of a highlight reel. That’s the part of this story that’s easy to skim…
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A $3,359 Exhaust Won’t Make the Charger Sixpack Sound Like a V8 — the Noise You Want Is in the Crankshaft
MagnaFlow rates its own Charger Sixpack system MODERATE outside and MILD inside — and excludes sound from the warranty. The V8 burble comes from a crankshaft, not a tailpipe.
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Copart Just Dropped $1.9 Billion on ACV. It Didn’t Pay for the Auctions.
Copart announced a $1.9 billion deal for ACV Auctions on the same day it reported a flat fiscal year. The marketplace is not the asset. The 850 inspectors, the patented engine microphone and the pricing data are.
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Volkswagen Built the World’s Most Efficient EV Out of Hatchback Parts, Then Explained Why You’ll Never Own One
Volkswagen set a 0.158 drag record with ID. Polo hardware and found 40 percent more efficiency without a bigger battery. The catch is the shape of the car.
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Today in Automotive History: September 18, 2015 — The EPA Catches Volkswagen Cheating on Emissions
On September 18, 2015, the Environmental Protection Agency sent Volkswagen a five-page letter that would end up costing the company more than $30 billion, push out its CEO within a week, and rewrite how regulators test a tailpipe. The letter was a formal Notice of Violation of the Clean Air Act, and it accused Volkswagen…
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China Set a Real Deadline for Self-Driving Cars. America’s Still Handing Out Permission Slips One at a Time.
Nine Chinese ministries just set a 2030 deadline for autonomous vehicles, backed by a mandatory safety standard. Ten weeks earlier, NHTSA withdrew its only proposed AV oversight programme.
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Trump Says Chinese Automakers Can Build Here. The Rule Blocking Them Has Nothing to Do With Factories.
A Commerce Department rule bars China-owned automakers from selling connected vehicles in the U.S. no matter where they are assembled. The factory was never the obstacle.
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Congress Couldn’t Kill This 2013 Rule, So the EPA Just Sent It Back for Round Two
The Congressional Review Act gives Congress 60 days to kill a rule. The EPA reopened that window on waivers from 2009 and 2013 by resubmitting them — and a federal judge has now called it out.
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Allstate Booked the Rental Car. A Lawsuit Says It Then Refused to Pay Its Own Rate.
A federal class action says Allstate picked the rental company, negotiated the rate and made the reservation — then reimbursed less than the bill. The shortfall is small on purpose, and the reason it is hard to fight says more about third-party claims than any number in the complaint.
