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Savannah Police Swear ICE Isn’t on Their Flock Network. They Just Fired an Officer for Sharing Her Login With Her ICE-Agent Husband
Savannah police say ICE has no Flock access. WTOC reports an officer was fired for giving her ICE-agent husband her login. What is on the record.
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Hyundai Says 94,622 Genesis and G80 Seats Can Overheat. Park Outside, Because There’s No Fix Yet
Hyundai is recalling 94,622 Genesis and G80 sedans whose seat switches can stick on and overheat. There’s no fix yet, so Hyundai says park outside.
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Tesla’s FSD Class Action Stalled Because Nothing Forced Buyers to Open the Page With the Promise
The Ninth Circuit vacated class certification in LoSavio v. Tesla because nothing required FSD buyers to visit the page carrying the hardware claim.
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Police Say a Silverado’s Automatic Braking Was On When It Hit Fort Collins Pedestrians. The Accelerator Overrode It
Fort Collins police say the pickup that drove onto a downtown sidewalk on Aug. 29 had spotted the pedestrians before it reached them. According to an arrest affidavit, the Silverado’s automatic emergency braking was set to “Alert and Brake,” the truck’s front camera and radar had picked out an adult ahead, and the accelerator pedal…
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MapQuest Added a Layer of Eyeballs for Plate Readers. Its Help Page Doesn’t Say Where They Came From
MapQuest’s help center shows how to switch on a map layer of eye icons for surveillance cameras. It doesn’t say where the camera data comes from.
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Ford’s 6.7L Power Stroke CP4 Pump Fight Is Now a Class Action in Five States. Here’s Who Actually Qualifies
For seven years, the argument over the Bosch CP4 high-pressure pump in Ford’s 6.7-liter Power Stroke has lived in shop bays and forum threads, where everyone had a theory and nobody had standing. On September 30, a federal judge in Detroit gave it a docket number and five classes. U.S. District Judge Laurie J. Michelson certified…
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A $400,000 Corvette ZR1X Markup Is Making the Rounds. The Dealer’s Own Price Tags Don’t Back It Up
George Nunnally Chevrolet’s website prices its cars at MSRP plus a $129 fee. An addendum carrying its name adds $400,000 to a ZR1X and clashes with Arkansas’s advertising rule.
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Tesla Tried to Blame Vandals for a Model X Fire. A Quebec Judge Handed It a C$161,700 Bill Instead
Tesla Canada owes Intact Insurance C$161,700 for a 2020 Model X that burned on a Montreal street. Tesla didn’t lose an argument about battery chemistry or wiring. It lost because it missed a filing deadline and then tried to rescue the case with a theory nobody could check. Most owners will never set foot in…
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Diesel Is Up $2.51 a Gallon and AI Is Leading the Layoff Charts. Anyone Who Has to Drive to Work Is Getting Squeezed
Fuel up 41 to 69 percent, AI the top-cited reason for layoffs, hiring nearly flat: every cost of keeping a car is rising for the households least able to absorb it.
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GM Called Your Smart Driver Score a B+ That ‘Isn’t Permanent.’ Montana Says It Ended Up With Your Insurer
Montana says GM’s dealership OnStar sign-up looked mandatory, warned decliners they’d lose safety services they didn’t have yet, and fed driving scores to insurers. Here’s what GM owners can check.
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Tempe Banned License Plate Readers. Its Lawyer Says Cops Can Still Get the Data as Long as They Don’t Say ‘ALPR’
Tempe’s license plate reader ban passed 6-1. The city attorney’s memo says officers can still accept plate-reader data from neighbors, as long as they don’t ask anyone to run the search.
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Full Self-Driving (Supervised) Had No Supervisor: Driver Says He Was Asleep When His Tesla Hit a CHP Cruiser
A Tesla driver told CHP he was asleep with Full Self-Driving engaged when his car went through a four-lane closure on I-80 near Fairfield and hit a patrol car, seriously injuring two officers.
