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Thomas Hunter Ii/Getty Images Despite the unending amount of headaches first responders willingly cope with on a day-to-day basis, technology over the previous couple of years has forced a brand new mega-headache onto the front lines in the shape of autonomous vehicles. Designed to get humans from place to position and not using a driver, these “robots” on wheels are the celebrities of first responders’ nightmares and keeping them from attending to emergencies in a timely matter. Well, enough is enough, because the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration put out a letter this week that said autonomous vehicles getting in…
Criminals are all the time searching for ways to make it wealthy, quick. Some have learned to skip private consumers and go straight to the source, just like the thieves hitting up Tesla’s Gigafactory Nevada facility to steal batteries straight from the source, Wired reports. It’s called cargo theft, and the crime has greater than doubled in occurrences since 2022, and in accordance with a recent report from the American Transportation Research Institute those thefts have cost the trucking industry as much as $6.6 billion a 12 months, amounting to just about $18 million per day. Within the growing sub-scheme of cargo theft…
We have been in a kind of Big-Brother-is-always-watching state for some time now, but as if an Orwellian reality is not concerning enough — now they’re finding much more ways to maintain tabs on you and everybody you recognize and love. A brand new device is coming soon, helping your favorite uniformed groups add much more information to your personal data set each time you allow the home. Leonardo Company, known for its technology products, specifically automated license plate readers (ALPRs), has introduced a brand new device to gather more data from you whilst you’re driving around town. And like ALPRs, you may’t…
Birds and cars have endured a reasonably contentious relationship. We (within the cars) are notorious for blasting big heavy metal windowed machines through their flight paths, they usually have the expected (and unappreciated) duty to take an enormous sh*t on our newly washed and waxed vehicles. But one bird could also be trying to change that dynamic as he terrorizes the vehicles of a Scottish suburb. Residents of Lochardil, Inverness told the BBC that the little green-feathered menace has been pecking away at window seals and the rubbery parts of windshield wipers on their cars, causing 1000’s of kilos in estimated…
Racing is alive and well, but not every facet of racing has benefited from the rise in its popularity and notoriety. Recently we have seen historic race tracks closing, being redeveloped or sold. But some are thriving, like Great Bend’s SRCA Dragstrip in Kansas, which happened just just a few weeks ago. SRCA is successful story for historic tracks and preservation, but it surely’s one in all few victories when there’s still numerous tracks closing throughout the country. Their endings were often shadowed by the cash needed to maintain them operating. SRCA was fortunate that its neighbors and town were…
The primary few seconds of this weekend’s GT World Challenge race at Monza would make for a pleasant instructional video for what to not do when merging onto a busy highway. It’d also make for a case of “what to not do” for drivers participating in a giant race as a complete. But these are the moves that make racing interesting, right? On this instance a Mercedes driver made a nasty move and ruined the day for a whole lot of people. For further entertainment, the events did eventually come back around on the instigating driver. And as race fans we’re…
Aliaksei Kaponia/Shutterstock In a surprising and ironic twist, essentially the most inexpensive vehicle option for cash-strapped Americans without delay, and possibly for the foreseeable future, is a used EV. Oddly, we owe a giant due to the Trump Administration for the valiant stupidity that got us here. Its effort to tear up clean energy incentives from the Biden era, plus the entanglement of the U.S.-Israel war with Iran, have each worked the alternative way intended. The wonderful folks fighting so hard for coal and dinosaur fuels have one way or the other found themselves inadvertently forcing people towards the very…
A Reliant Robin doesn’t typically top anyone’s list of reliable vehicles for obvious reasons. Most of us have seen that infamous “Top Gear” episode where Jeremy Clarkson rolled the Reliant Robin several times, and if you happen to have not now’s the time. It takes a special sensible idiot, or possibly two on this case, to contemplate taking one on a 14,000 mile journey. That and a hankering for a world record. Introducing fellow automotive nerds and the protagonists of this insane story: Ollie Jenks and Seth Scott, the duo behind Hold My Gear. The entire thing was Scott’s hair-brained idea.…