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These are the most useless car tech features
Post Views: 249 Many seasoned drivers remember their first car with cruise control, or air conditioning. Heck, some people who started off in a Ford Model T have even gotten the chance to sit behind the wheel of an all-electric Mustang Mach-E. Technology has changed the way that the world uses the automobile, but some…
Why this Amazon-owned company is bringing its autonomous vehicles to Seattle
Post Views: 221 Seattle residents can start keeping their eyes out for matte black Toyota Highlanders, clad with a wealth of sensors on their roofs, plying the streets of their drizzly city. These retrofitted SUVs belong to Zoox, a self-driving car company owned by Amazon that wants to one day operate autonomous taxi services—like Uber,…
You could soon be able to rent a Tesla from Hertz
Post Views: 230 Hertz has locked in what’s said to be the single largest purchase of electric vehicles in history by acquiring 100,000 cars from Tesla. It’s the biggest step towards electrifying its global fleet yet, and Bloomberg says the deal should net Tesla $4.2 billion in revenue. An initial batch of Model 3s will…
The new Corvette Z06 is a ruthless machine with a sound to match
Post Views: 245 The eighth-generation “C8” Chevrolet Corvette, which first debuted in 2019, is nothing short of America’s supercar. The C8 embodies a seldom-seen rear-mid engine layout, along with a powerful V8, which enabled it to make waves when it first hit the road. It has since consistently delivered incredible performance for its value. Since…
This electric car was cutting edge in 1908. What’s it like to drive it?
Post Views: 273 Electric vehicles are a much more long-standing tradition of car culture than we often give them credit for. Ask someone the first EV that pops to mind, and the usual responses will be from the past couple of decades—the original Tesla Roadster, perhaps the late 1990s GM EV1, maybe in rare cases…
Tesla issues a recall over its latest self-driving update
Post Views: 256 Tesla issued a safety recall Tuesday for nearly 12,000 vehicles over a “software communication error” tied to an update the company rolled out last month. The problem impacted drivers that are part of Tesla’s limited early access Full-Self Driving Beta population, which includes Model S, X, 3, and Y vehicles released from…
Connected cars and smart vests could help make work zones safer
Post Views: 201 Audi is trying to do something about that problem. The automaker is one of many that are working to build a slew of new connected convenience and safety features into its upcoming cars. Doing that right means carrying out meticulous testing to make sure the tech works as well as it sounds—which…
A big change is coming to F1 cars—and their tires
Post Views: 183 Just as a flood of new fans has discovered interest in Formula 1 as a result of lockdown binges of Netflix’s Drive to Survive series, the sport is shuffling the deck for 2022. Changes in the rules for the winged wonder cars include plans for teams to share some common components to…