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Cybercab Federal Audit Opens as Waymo Reaches 14 Cities
On September 1, Waymo opened public rides in Denver, San Diego and Tampa, pushing its driverless service to 14 U.S. cities. The same morning, Amazon’s Zoox said its retrofitted test fleet was heading to Houston and San Diego, its 11th and 12th American markets. Two days later Tesla put the Cybercab — no steering wheel,…
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Georgia Troopers Wreck More Than Half Their Chases. This Week, One of Them Killed a Teenager in Tucker.
The Georgia State Patrol’s version of Monday’s fatal crash in Tucker leads with the stunt drivers. A group had reportedly been running donuts and blocking roads around DeKalb County for hours, shifting locations through the night, when troopers finally caught up with them near Kilman Drive. Several vehicles took off. One of them, a GMC…
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A New Bill Wants To Study China’s Grip On The Auto Industry — Congress Might Want To Check The Showroom Floor First
Congress wants to know how deep China’s fingers are in the American auto industry. It’s a fair question. It’s also one the federal government has already spent the better part of a year answering, in documents with actual deadlines attached, while this new bill can’t set one until 2028. On August 28, Representatives Diana Harshbarger…
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The EPA Called a 17-Year-Old Rule ‘Brand New’ So Congress Could Fast-Track Killing It. A Judge Wasn’t Buying It.
A federal judge in Washington spent part of her ruling this week accusing the EPA of asking her court to “engage in Orwellian doublethink.” That’s not typical language in an emissions case. It’s the kind of line judges reach for when an agency gets caught arguing that the same document is two different things depending…
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Fake Dealership Websites Are Targeting Classic Car Buyers, FTC Warns
That Fake Dealership Website Wants a Wire Transfer, and There’s a Legal Reason Why The Federal Trade Commission dropped a consumer alert on September 1 that should make anyone shopping for an old muscle car sit up. Criminals are duplicating legitimate franchise and independent dealership websites — logos, inventory pages, vehicle photography, the whole storefront…
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Hyundai August Sales Fall 14% as Korean Strike Hits Domestic Output
Hyundai’s Home Market Just Cratered, But That’s Not the Number American Buyers Should Care About Hyundai moved 288,574 vehicles worldwide in August, down 14.2 percent year over year, and the company is not being coy about why. In its own release, Hyundai pinned the month on production disruption from the union’s strike plus customers sitting…
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Amazon Autos Heads Overseas in Early 2027 as Hyundai Touts Conquest Numbers
Amazon Autos Goes International in 2027, and Hyundai No Longer Has the Platform to Itself Buried in the strategic-partnerships section of Hyundai’s 2026 CEO Investor Day materials is a single sentence with more retail consequence than most of the product news around it. Hyundai’s own release states that Amazon Autos will expand internationally in early…
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A Brick Doesn’t Know Your Windshield Has A Camera Behind It. Richmond Just Found Out The Hard Way
Ninety-two people in Richmond, Virginia woke up this week to the same discovery: a windshield in pieces on the pavement. The story making the rounds is about the man police say did it, armed, according to witnesses, with nothing more sophisticated than a handful of bricks. That is not the interesting part. The interesting part…
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Honda’s Cost Overhaul Explained: What It Means for Future Hybrids and Repairs
Honda Already Told You It Was Coming for Supplier Costs. It Just Used Nicer Words. There’s a version of this story where a leaked internal target lands like a bombshell. There’s a better version, which is that Honda stood up in Tokyo on May 14 and explained the entire program on the record, in a…
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Ford Recalls 10,001 Vehicles Over Cracked Pistons in an Engine Shared By Five Very Different Cars. The Fix Isn’t Coming Until December.
Ford’s newest recall covers just 10,001 vehicles, a rounding error next to the 148,663 Mustangs the company flagged for a wiring defect the very same week. But look at the model names on this one: Explorer, Bronco, Bronco Sport, Mustang, and Ranger. A three-row family crossover, two unrelated off-roaders, a rear-drive sports car, and a…
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Congress Filed a Bill Called the ‘Flock-Off Act.’ It Won’t Take Down a Single Camera.
Somewhere in a public works garage or a police evidence lot, there may soon be a very expensive pile of hardware with nowhere to go. That’s the bet Rep. Thomas Massie is making with the bill he filed this week, one with a name that sounds more like a bumper sticker than a piece of…
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From a Seized Porsche to 41 Years: Feeding Our Future’s Ringleader Now Owes $240 Million
When we first reported on the Feeding Our Future case, a federal judge had just ordered Aimee Bock to forfeit roughly $5.2 million in assets, including her Porsche Panamera. That forfeiture order turned out to be a preview of a much bigger reckoning. 41 Years, No Parole On May 21, 2026, U.S. District Judge Nancy…
