Author: staff@jalopnik.com (Collin Woodard)
Chevrolet It’s one thing for something to make sense intuitively, nevertheless it’s one other thing altogether to have the option to prove it. So, while the tire and brake dust that electric vehicles generate could be a problem, without exhaust continually spewing out of the back, it would not be crazy to assume air quality would improve if more people drove EVs. Nevertheless, since EVs only account for a small percentage of latest automotive sales within the U.S., are they even popular enough to make a measurable difference? Well, our friends over at The Autopian just covered a brand new…
Joe Raedle/Getty Images Suni Williams has officially announced her retirement, bringing an end to her 27-year profession at NASA and cementing her place in history as a modern-day legend. In her time as an astronaut, Williams spent 608 days in space, making her certainly one of only two NASA astronauts to ever spend greater than a cumulative 600 days in space. Her longest single stint lasted 286 days, tying Butch Wilmore for the sixth-longest spaceflight by an American. Along with three International Space Station missions, Williams notched nine spacewalks in her profession, totaling 62 hours and 6 minutes, while earning her…
PeopleImages/Shutterstock Americans cannot really agree on much as of late, but, at the very least for now, it looks like most of us can generally agree that drunk driving is bad. Heck, even the individuals who don’t think try to be punished for running over an elderly woman crossing the road are inclined to change their tune if the driving force is drunk. So, while chances are you’ll not expect Florida — a state whose governor says it’s okay to use your automobile as a weapon against protestors you do not like – to come back down hard on drunk driving, that is exactly what…
pablovs7_/TikTok Good luggage is dear, and that is even before you get to the worth of the stuff you will have packed inside said luggage. I mean, once I packed for Hawaii, I definitely wasn’t going to go away my Xbox behind, and if a baggage handler had broken that despite my best attempts to pack it safely, I’d have been pissed as hell. So it’s comprehensible that the video embedded below, showing a employee throwing what’s assumed to be luggage down a whole staircase, has gone viral. And if it really was luggage being tossed around like that, the…
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Tesla is all about innovation. In any case, what number of other automakers could take a sedan MotorTrend loved and switch it right into a crossover MotorTrend absolutely hated? Or construct a truck that needed to be recalled eight times for, amongst other things, body panels flying off on the road? And while lame, dumb corporations similar to Waymo don’t include a human within the robotaxi, Tesla is once more the innovator here, with Electrek reporting the corporate has moved its safety monitors to the motive force’s seat. If that is not robotaxi innovation, I do not know what’s.…
Cars & Bids Earlier this week, I discovered the right use for all that more money you might have lying around — a 1999 Mitsubishi 3000GT VR-4 with only 27,300 miles on it. Would it not be expensive? Sure. On the time of writing, bidding is already as much as $55,000. Plus, no matter regardless of the winning bid finally ends up being, the fee to purchase a 3000GT VR-4 is basically only a down payment on the whole cost of keeping one in every of these items on the road. I mean, sure, it’s Japanese, but these items are complicated,…
Brandon Bell/Getty Images Elon Musk has been busy within the state of Texas recently. The town of Austin allowed him to start operating Tesla Model Y robotaxis on its streets, and he helped kill a bill that will have regulated autonomous vehicles. He also had his hands in a number of other laws that profit each Tesla and Musk’s other corporations, especially SpaceX. So earlier this 12 months, ProPublica submitted a request to see the emails between Governor Greg Abbott’s office and Musk, in addition to his associates. Now, the Governor’s office is fighting their release, claiming they include “intimate and embarrassing”…
Ajax9/Getty Images It’s almost Fourth of July weekend, which suggests parties, celebratory fireworks and disappointing burgers served by dads who don’t actually know what they’re doing on the grill. But hey, that is nothing a pleasant, thick slice of unmelted cheddar cheese cannot make worse. Unfortunately, I could not give you the option to persuade everyone to serve something higher than overcooked baseball-shaped burgers, but hopefully, I can at the very least persuade you to be extra careful on the road this week and provide you with a plan to avoid drunk and even tipsy driving on one in all…
WBNS 10 TV/YouTube Authorities in Columbus, Ohio, were forced to shut several lanes on Interstate 270 on Sunday after a fuel tanker full of an estimated 8,500 gallons of gasoline overturned and began an enormous fire. In accordance with local police, though, the crash and resulting fire weren’t necessarily the driving force’s fault. As an alternative, they blame the driving force of a black pickup truck, who authorities are still trying to find, WBNS 10 TV reports. Initial reports suggested the pickup truck driver cut off the tanker, causing it to crash, but police now say it was greater than just…
Andrew Lichtenstein/Getty Images Whether you’ve got heard of Latest York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani or not, the one thing it is advisable know is that the town’s ultra-wealthy are absolutely terrified he might actually win the Democratic primary. And while nothing is guaranteed, it looks like he might actually do exactly that, even with Cuomo supporters doing their best to blanket the town in ads and mailers claiming Mamdani is an antisemitic socialist who will destroy every part. The anti-Mamdani fervor has gotten so aggressive in recent weeks that he’s even received multiple death threats, including at the least one…