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...
California
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...
FBI Dismantles Helps Large-Scale Fuel Theft Operation in California
Federal agents and California law enforcement officials have broken up a large fuel theft operation...
FBI, California Police Dismantle Large-Scale Fuel Theft Operation Across East Bay
Federal and local law enforcement agencies have disrupted a large-scale fuel theft operation in California...
Los Angeles to Deploy 125 Automated Speed Cameras With Escalating Fines
Driving in Los Angeles is about to change in a big way as the city...