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GM Bragged About Inventing Brake-By-Wire. Regulators Expanded a Federal Probe Into It One Day Later.
On August 20, General Motors’ own newsroom published a nostalgic technical retrospective crediting the doomed 1990s EV1 with inventing brake-by-wire, a system GM once called the world’s most efficient and intelligent stopping system. One day later, federal regulators expanded a defect investigation into 1.16 million GM-built vehicles running the modern descendant of that same technology.…
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Fuel Economy Rollback: What NHTSA’s Own Numbers Say About Car Prices
There’s a number attached to the coming fuel-economy rollback, and depending on which government document you open, it’s $900, $925, or $1,000. All three describe the same modeled figure. Only one of them appears in the actual arithmetic. Open Table 1-2 of NHTSA’s Preliminary Regulatory Impact Analysis for SAFE Vehicles Rule III and the per-vehicle…
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Watch: Colorado Cops Netted a Fleeing Suspect With a Grapple That Costs $399 a Shot
A Douglas County deputy and a Castle Rock police officer ended a car chase on August 30 by firing a net at the rear wheel of a fleeing car. The robbery suspect behind the wheel stopped fast. His passenger didn’t get much further: he bailed out and ran, and officers had him in cuffs within…
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A Deputy Searched One Woman’s License Plate 1,639 Times. Flock Safety’s Fix Was a Checkbox Nobody Had to Click.
A former sheriff’s deputy in Richmond County, Georgia searched one woman’s license plate through Flock Safety’s national camera network 1,639 times. Three of his former colleagues each ran more than 100 searches of their own, according to a federal class-action complaint filed August 25 in the Northern District of Georgia. None of them needed a…
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Toyota’s Electric Highlander Misses Its Second Deadline, and This Time Toyota Won’t Even Guess a Third
Toyota didn’t just push back the electric Highlander again. It did something more revealing: it stopped attaching a date to the promise. In July, Toyota had a specific number. A spokesperson attributed the wait to some further fine-tuning and estimated roughly eight weeks, sliding the on-sale date from late 2026 into early 2027. Numbers like…
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Ford August 2026 Sales Down 10.3%: What the Numbers Actually Show
Ford moved 170,681 vehicles in the United States last month, down from 190,206 in August 2025. Through eight months, the company is at 1,347,147 against 1,492,905 a year ago, a 9.8% shortfall. Trucks were essentially flat, cars were up, and SUVs fell off a cliff. Ford posts these tallies on its investor news page each…
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BYD Isn’t Really Betting On Robot Hands — It’s Cashing In On Something It Already Owned For Free
Every automaker eventually discovers it owns more than cars. BYD just discovered it owns something almost nobody else in the industry has bothered to sell: the raw, physical texture of what happens on an assembly line. On August 25, BYD signed a strategic partnership agreement with PaXini Tech, a Shenzhen-based company that builds tactile sensors…
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73,000 People ‘Signed Up’ for Tesla’s Cybercab Fleet. Not One of Them Bought Anything.
One day after Tesla started charging real money for driverless rides in Austin, a number went viral: 73,000 people had clicked their way onto Tesla’s Cybercab fleet interest form. Cue the headlines about overwhelming demand. Here’s the problem. Nobody signed anything. Nobody paid anything. And the form itself isn’t even aimed at people who might…
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BMW Recalled 150,000 Cars In China Over Fire Risks — And Had To Recall Its Own Recall, Too
BMW just told Chinese regulators that more than 150,000 cars need fixing for fire risks and a brake glitch. That’s the headline. It’s not the story. Buried in the fifth of five recall filings is an admission that almost never makes it into a press release: BMW had to recall a recall. An earlier software…
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A Chinese Supplier Just Opened a Georgia Factory to Build the Exact Tech Washington Is Trying to Ban
A ribbon-cutting in Suwanee, Georgia doesn’t usually make national news. But the one held by YYFORE Technologyast week deserves a second look, because the parts it just started building in the United States are exactly the kind of hardware the federal government has spent the past year and a half trying to keep out of…
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Chinese Car Resale Values Are Sliding in Europe, and the Data Explains Why
Europe’s Used-Car Books Are Quietly Marking Down Chinese Brands Spain is where you can actually see this happening in public. The GANVAM-DAT index, which is the reference book Spanish dealers, banks, insurers and government agencies use to price a used car, put the average Chinese-brand vehicle at 60.7 percent of its original price after 36…
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Apple’s New CEO Races Rare Porsches on Weekends. His Actual Job Title Explains Why the Apple Car Really Died
Every outlet covering John Ternus’s promotion to Apple CEO is leading with the same delightful detail: the man loves Porsches, races one at Laguna Seca, and reportedly owns one of only 77 examples of the modern 935 track car. That fact is real. It is also not the story. The real story is what Ternus…
