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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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Do Mercedes-Maybachs And The Regular Benz/AMG Models Use The Same Engines?
Mercedes-Maybach models may look like a world apart from regular Benz and AMG cars, but their engines reveal a closer connection than you might expect.
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8 Of The Most Reliable Ford Engines Ever Made
Ford has produced some incredibly durable and long-lasting engines. A few of the most reliable are still being manufactured by the Blue Oval today.
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What To Do When A Toll Camera Sends You A Wrongful Charge
Discovering a toll camera charge from a trip you never took sounds impossible, but it happens. Here's what to do if you ever find yourself in that situation.
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How The Genesis GV90's Full-Length Roof Airbag Will Keep You Safe And Inside The Car In A Rollover Crash
This is apparently the first roof airbag in the world, and it'll protect you from whacking your head on the sunroof in addition to stopping you from flying out.
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'Multitasking' Young Buyers Are Why BMW Is Ditching Physical Buttons
New BMW vehicles are short on physical controls, with only a few buttons in the cabin, and practically everything else is controlled by the touchscreen.
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New AI That Detects Body Language At Las Vegas Crosswalks Likely Won't Help Prevent Pedestrian Deaths
Like every other surveillance-type AI-driven software, it was implemented in an area where the people paying taxes didn't vote for it or agree to it.
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The Sherman Tank Calliope Strapped 60 Rocket Tubes To A WWII Medium Tank's Turret
The Sherman was already a formidable WWII tank, but one unusual modification turned its turret into a platform for an astonishing rocket barrage.
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Army Chief Chosen By Pete Hegseth Cancels Experimental Drone Battalion
The real culprit here appears to be internal politics at best, or personal grudges at worst.
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Flock Cameras Will Now Keep Your Car's Photos For 7 Days By Default, Not 30
While this news from Flock comes with an important caveat, it's one of several updates, including flagging abnormal activity by officers using this ALPR data.
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How Oil Spills In The Ocean Get Cleaned Up
Oil spills can create some devastating ecological damage. But a few different methods help to both contain and remove this oil from the ocean.
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3D-Printed Flock Sock Covers Flock Cameras To, Uh, Protect Them From UV Rays
It's a blueprint for a very tongue-in-cheek 3D-printed "sock" that you can gently slide over your local Flock camera to keep it safe from the sun.
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Flock Announces Band-Aids Meant To Remedy Totally Predictable And Widespread Abuse Of Surveillance Equipment
After a seemingly endless flow of stories about system abuse, Flock says it's taking steps to improve its privacy, accountability, security, and transparency.
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So Your Electronic Door Handle's Failed And You Want Out Of Your Car. Here's What To Do
Kicking the window out of your car is tough, and you likely don't want a busted window, so using a vehicle's manual exit mechanism is a much better option.
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How Camouflage Confuses Flock Cameras And Their Detection Algorithms
Flock cameras are designed to identify vehicles and license plates, but specially designed camouflage patterns may interfere with their detection systems.
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