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Robotaxis Keep Driving Into Fire Scenes, and Washington Just Admitted There’s No Rule Against It
Every state in the country tests new drivers on the same handful of judgment calls: what to do when you see flares in the road, how to react to a trooper waving traffic through with his hands, when to yield to flashing lights you can’t yet identify. It’s in the manual. It’s on the written…
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Stellantis, Wayve, and Uber’s Robotaxi Deal: What’s Real and What’s Hype
Here’s a fun exercise: read the Stellantis, Wayve, and Uber robotaxi announcement, then try to find a single thing in it you could put on a calendar. A launch date. A city. A vehicle. A price. A fleet size. Anything. You won’t, because there isn’t one. What the three companies actually announced on June 17…
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Charlotte Red-Light Cameras Return in 2027: What Drivers Need to Know
Charlotte’s city council signed off on June 22 to put red-light cameras back at 10 of the city’s worst intersections, with the program expected to switch on in early 2027. If you’ve driven through Charlotte lately, the safety pitch writes itself — the city’s own Vision Zero program is built around the premise that traffic…
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Ford’s First-Half 2026: Records, a 10% Drop, and What Both Really Mean
Ford spent the first week of July telling everyone how many records it broke in the first half of 2026. Read past the bullet points, though, and you find a quarter where total U.S. sales fell 10% to 549,200 vehicles. Both things are true at once, and untangling how gets you a much better picture…
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Honda’s 15 Millionth Accord Sold — and Her Sister Bought the Next One
Honda just handed over the 15 millionth Accord it has sold in the United States, and in a piece of dealership choreography no PR team could have scripted, the very next car out the door — number 15,000,001 — went to the buyer’s younger sister the same afternoon. Both women drove home identical 2026 Accord…
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Audi’s Q5 Subframe Lawsuit Isn’t About Rust. It’s About Dodging a Recall.
A class action lawsuit over a rusted subframe sounds like the kind of story you skim past. Read the actual allegations against Audi, though, and the rust is almost beside the point. The real story is about what a car company does when it discovers a structural defect early, manages it quietly for a decade…
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Ford Recalled 110,000 Mustangs This Week — and Still Doesn’t Have a Fix for Either Problem
Ford told more than 110,000 Mustang owners this week that their cars have a safety defect. It didn’t tell most of them how it’s going to be fixed. Not yet, anyway. Buried inside the two recall reports Ford just filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is a detail that says more about how…
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A Silverado Went Under a Flatbed on I-40. The Rescue Is a Physics Lesson in Underride.
There’s a particular kind of wreck that makes crumple zones, airbags, and five-star ratings almost irrelevant, and a fleeing driver in Smith County, Tennessee found it early Friday morning. According to the volunteer rescue squad that pulled him out, the crew had to strip a Chevrolet Silverado down to free the man trapped inside —…
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Stolen 2013 Honda Accord Pursuit Ends at a Visalia Orchard Fence
Here’s a tidy little Central Valley crime story that doubles as a lesson in why your decade-old Honda is more desirable to a thief than you’d think, and why running from the cops in a low-slung sedan across farm country is a plan with a short shelf life. According to the Visalia Police Department, it…
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A 167-MPH BMW, a Lamppost, and a Suspended Sentence: What Actually Happened on the A55
Here’s a number worth sitting with: 167 mph. That’s the speed a black BMW hit on the A55 in North Wales late on the night of February 23, with two passengers along for the ride and a driver who, it turned out, was over the legal limit for cannabis. The whole pursuit lasted about five…
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Chicago Carjackers Tried to Sell Stolen Car Back to Its Owner
There’s a particular breed of criminal decision-making on display in Humboldt Park, and it belongs to two men who allegedly stole a car at gunpoint and then concluded that the natural next step was to sell it back to the person they stole it from — in the same alley, a few hours later, in…
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Toyota’s $3.6 Billion San Antonio Bet Isn’t About Jobs. It’s About Which Trucks Are Worth Building in America.
Governor Greg Abbott just announced that Toyota is spending $3.6 billion to build a second assembly line in San Antonio. The press release runs through all the numbers you’d expect: 2,000 new jobs, a $20 million state grant, a $50,000 bonus for hiring veterans. It reads like a ribbon-cutting speech, because that’s exactly what it…
