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These Fun New Cars All Have 3-Cylinder Engines
More cylinders, more fun? These new models prove that three-cylinder engines can power surprisingly fun, capable, and exciting vehicles despite their size.
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Minneapolis Proposes Requiring A Human Behind The Wheel In Waymos
Safety is a big part of the proposal that could change Waymo's future in the city, but bigger still is the desire to protect the jobs of human drivers.
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How Chasing Average MPG Improvements Brought More Tech To Cars (For Better Or Worse)
You can now play video games on your car's infotainment screen. But if automakers weren't forced to chase higher mpg, would all this extra tech even exist?
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Reporter Gets Visit From Cops For Filming Flock Camera Installer At Work
The irony of being opposed to being filmed while maintaining and upgrading a system of mass surveillance was apparently lost on the Flock worker.
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China Plans To Return Samples From Mars In 2031 After The U.S. Cancels Its Own Plans
The Chinese mission to Mars is on pace to launch in 2028, and it may beat the U.S. back to Earth with soil samples, even though the U.S. is already there.
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Flock Cameras Aren't The Only License Plate Trackers Stalking Your Car's Every Movement
Flock is one of the biggest providers of license plate readers nationwide, but many other companies are providing the same warrantless tracking services.
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'I Am In Your Car. I Am In Your Maps,' Abuser Terrorizes Ex Using 'Parental Controls' And Tesla's App
Common tracking and remote-access vehicle systems designed to improve safety can be easily misused, sometimes in pretty scary and dangerous ways.
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How The Horse B20 Four Cylinder Engine Can Survive Up To A Meter Underwater
Meant for high-stress and off-road scenarios, the engine can take on big hills just as well as it can theoretically take on big water obstacles.
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Here's The Unimaginably Huge Number Of Pictures Taken By Flock Cameras Every Month
With a vast network of cameras capturing photo and video every second of every day, Flock is taking a staggering number of photos every month.
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Weird Myth That EV Batteries Die All The Time Refuted By Yet Another Study Conducted By Actual Scientists Who Didn't Graduate From Facebook University
Researchers tested the state of health on more than 500,000 EVs between 2022 and 2026, and found that after 31,000 miles, median SoH varied between 91% and 97%.
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Cops Ticket Insured Driver For Having No Insurance Because Flock Said So
Thanks to Flock cameras, a Georgia student now has to fight an insurance citation, despite presenting valid insurance to officers when she was pulled over.
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Hyundai's New Pleos Connect Infotainment System Is High-Tech Without Completely Losing The Plot
I tried Pleos in a Korean-market Hyundai Grandeur, and found it to be intuitive for such a still-touchscreen-heavy user experience.
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Instead Of A Steering Wheel, The Tesla Cybercab Uses An On-Screen Joystick For Emergencies
With no pedals and no steering wheel in the cab, the Tesla robotaxi will have to rely on touchscreen controls to be driven in emergency situations.
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6 Android Auto Features That Help Make Long Highway Trips Better
Long highway drives can expose some of Android Auto's most useful tricks. A few overlooked settings could make your next road trip noticeably easier.
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City Rewarding Safe Drivers With Never-Ending Green Lights Sees Dramatic Drop In Speeds And Crashes
Would never having to wait at a red light be enough to make you ease off the gas?
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I Tested The New Porsche Cayenne EV's 400-kW Charging, And Even Without Reaching The Peak It's Fast As Hell
Charging from 13% to 80% took just 16 minutes, and that's with seeing a peak of around 350 kW, a good bit less than the Cayenne's maximum.
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7 Of GM's Legendary LS V8s Ranked By Horsepower
Simple, compact, reliable, and massively powerful, GM's modern LS family has become an engine swap staple. But how do they compare when it comes to power?
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Ducati Once Built A Ferrari V8 Engine For A Lancia Sedan
It was an Italian triple play: Ducati modified a Ferrari V8 and put it in a Lancia. The result was special, built on a shared front-wheel drive platform.
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Sovereign Citizen Fills Truck Bed With 'Tyranny Trees,' Cops Arrest Him For Allegedly Cutting Down Flock Cameras
This brazen vigilante was already facing nine felonies, including larceny, criminal damage to property, and tampering with evidence.
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Nebraska Has An Electrically Conductive Bridge To Melt Snow, Why Doesn't Everyone Else?
The technology eliminates the need for harsh chemicals like road salts, and this bridge in Nebraska has been using it for 23 years. But there's a catch.
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Flock Cameras Are Coming Down Around The Country Only To Be Replaced By The Same Technology With A Different Name
Replacing one system of surveillance with another isn't a win. And the system some cities are replacing their Flock cameras with could be even more intrusive.
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Maine Once Buried 20,000 Tires Under A Road, But Here's Why No One Does This Anymore
Burying old tires under a road may sound crazy, but it seemed like a great idea to a civil engineer in Maine. But nobody foresaw what came next.
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Puke And Poop Are Just Part Of The Nightmare For Waymo's Fleet Handlers
With no driver physically present to deter bad behavior, Waymo passengers are doing disgusting things inside the vehicles, but someone has to clean them up.
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Trump Administration Is Working Hard To Make Cars Less Efficient During Historic High Gas Prices They Caused
It seems increasingly deranged and confusing things come out of the White House every day, but especially from Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.
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Florida Flocked Around And Found Out It Doesn't Want Mass Surveillance On Its State Roads After All
Cameras meant to read the license plates of passing cars will be removed from state roads, but private property and local roads may keep the surveillance tech.
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Back When Standard A/C Was For Luxury Cars Only, This Sedan Brought It To The Masses
Every new car has air conditioning now, and that's something we take for granted. But A/C might have taken much longer to become standard without this sedan.
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Elon Musk Saying 'All Cars' Will Have Starlink As The 'Only Way' To Connect Them Sounds More Like Threat Than Promise
Starlink has already been spotted on the roof of a Cybercab, but if the owner of both companies has his way, it'll be a much more ubiquitous technology.
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