California Handed Oil Refineries a Bigger Break Than Its Own Regulators Recommended. Now It’s Getting Sued for It
California has one climate rule everyone already knows: every new car sold in the state...
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Waymo’s “Free” Robotaxi Rides Have Nothing to Do With Generosity. They’re Buying Time With Regulators
Waymo wants you to believe the free rides in its new robotaxi are a nicety....
A $105K Corvette Blew Up a $1.3 Million Supercar Theft Ring. The Getaway Kit Cost Almost Nothing
Two men are sitting in a Ventura County jail cell on $250,000 bail apiece, accused...
Today in Cars: VW’s Reckoning, California’s Tracking Standoff, and Toyota’s Trust Problem
Four stories are worth your attention before you head out the door today, and they...
A Ladder, a Pond, and a Mustang: One California DUI Stop Became an Instant Viral Moment
The Rescue Photo That Broke the Internet The wreck itself was strange enough, but it...
Why This Uber Rider Felt He Had to Film His Own Driver Asleep at 65 MPH
The Video That Shouldn’t Have Needed to Exist A rideshare trip on one of Southern...
His Excuse for Doing 110 in a 45 Zone Somehow Made Things Worse for Him
A Speeding Stop That Turned Into Something Else Entirely There are ordinary speeding stops, and...
A Waymo Blew Past Cones, Cops, and Common Sense on Highway 101 — Then Kept Driving
Waymo has recalled the software running on nearly 4,000 of its robotaxis after regulators tied...
A Fully Equipped Cop SUV Was Stolen From an Oakland Garage, and It’s Still Missing
Stealing a cop car is the kind of thing that usually only happens in a...
Oakland’s License Plate Cameras Generated So Many Alerts, It Muted the Stolen-Car Ones
The pitch behind automated license plate readers is seductively simple: give an understaffed department a...
A Drunk Driver’s Mustang Ended Up in a Pond, and a Ladder Rescue Made It Viral
A late-night drive on a California highway turned into one of the more bizarre crash...
California Fuel Thief Caught on Camera Draining Gas From Special Needs Student Van
Surveillance cameras rarely catch someone in the act of stealing from people who can least...
$5 Gas and a Federal Lawsuit Are Colliding Over California’s Car Rules
The fight over what Americans are allowed to drive just escalated again. The Trump administration...
How 14 People Got Charged Over California’s Montana Supercar Tax Dodge
California prosecutors have charged 14 people accused of using a Montana registration scheme to dodge...
E-Bike Accidents Jumped 18.6x in Five Years. California’s Answer: License Plates.
184 incidents in 2018. 3,429 by 2023. That 18.6-fold jump in reported e-bike accidents, according...