The Kill Switch Already in Millions of Financed Cars
Ask any repo agent how the job used to work, and you’ll hear the same...
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California’s New Insurance Bill Will Let Your Car Snitch on You — This Time With Paperwork
For twenty years, California has been the one state in the country where your auto...
A West Virginia Man Now Faces Felony Charges for Destroying License Plate Cameras. The County May Not Even Own Them
A man in West Virginia is accused of ripping license plate reader cameras off their...
Norway Found a Remote Kill Switch in a Chinese Bus. Your Car Has One Too.
Last summer, engineers working for Oslo’s public transit agency drove two electric buses into an...
Ford’s New Remote Kill Switch Isn’t Really About Stopping Car Thieves. It’s About Owning The Off Switch.
Ford wants you picturing a thief. Someone jimmies open your F-150, leaves your own key...
Flock Killed Its Scream-Detecting Microphones. The License-Plate Dragnet Bolted Next to Them Is Doing Just Fine
Flock Safety wants credit for backing off something creepy. Fair enough. It earned some. The...
Case-by-Case: Every Reported Flock License Plate Camera Error to Date
Automated license plate readers like those made by Flock Safety are marketed to police departments...
People Keep Destroying Flock Cameras Across America. The Paperwork Already Saw It Coming.
Somewhere in Ashland, Ohio, a city employee is filling out a purchase order this week...
Three More Georgia Cops Got Fired Over Flock Cameras — And This Time, Nobody Was Even Stalking Anyone
Eight days. That’s how long it took for a second Georgia police department to fire...
Your Neighborhood Garbage Truck Is About to Start Spying on You. Your Car Already Did, and Got Fined for It.
Cape Coral, Florida is looking at a proposal to strap AI-powered cameras onto its garbage...
State Farm Just Deputized Your Toyota to Snitch on You After a Crash
Somewhere in Bloomington, Illinois, State Farm’s engineers just solved a problem that has nothing to...
Five Officers Got Caught Misusing Flock Cameras in Georgia. The Real Story Is How Rare That Is.
Somewhere in Albany, Georgia, a license plate reader’s own paperwork just did something eighteen other...
What to Know for Your Morning: A Supreme Court Bombshell, Polestar’s Fire Sale, and NHTSA’s Worst Week Yet
Grab your coffee and get caught up. Four stories from the last few days are...
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...
Cops Keep Using License Plate Readers to Stalk Their Crushes, and It Keeps Happening
That little black camera bolted to a pole at the end of your street was...