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Next week, Waymo’s driverless vehicles will begin testing on public roads in Japan for the Alphabet company’s first international trip. Waymo has yet to confirm whether it will eventually launch a commercial robotaxi service in the country, but the company is still celebrating the excursion as a “si...

Uber has released its annual "Lost & Found Index" of the most unusual, and and most common, items people leave behind in cars. Most of what's forgotten are wallets, phones, and keys. Below are the 50 "most unique": Mannequin head with human hair Viking drinking horn Ghostbusters ghost trap Chainsaw ...

[Decoupling parking from development is a great idea.] In January, I wrote about how too many Americans need a car and how the mammoth size of those cars is killing us. There are some signs of progress, however. In the Culdesac Tempe rental complex, in Arizona, hundreds of families are living withou...

All Trump is doing is making the US the cootie zone. We won't make anything here and we won't buy anything. We'll have nice 2025 computers, phones, cars, medicine, lumber, energy, but all the shit we import will break and be used up and we won't be able to replace it. The rest of the world will wond...

A Tesla Supercharger station was severely damaged in a possible explosion in Lacey, Washington. The local police department is investigating the incident, along with the FBI, which has been probing a number of acts of vandalism involving Tesla. The Lacey Police Department said it received multiple c...

Navarro said Musk wasn't a manufacturer of cars, just an "assembler."

This would put them in direct competition with Tesla. Ex-Tesla engineers launch luxury electric sports car startup: 'Making every effort to make cars available ... as quickly as possible' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Imagine if Ford published a paper saying it was thinking about long term issues of the automobiles it made and one of those issues included “misalignment “Car as an adversary”“ and when you asked Ford for clarification the company said “yes, we believe as we make our cars faster and more capable, th...

Tesla’s battery range extender accessory for Cybertruck, which promised to give the electric pickup the capability to drive about 445 miles on a single charge, was removed from the online configurator over the weekend, Electrek reports. The Cybertruck Range Extender was announced at the vehicle’s de...

In the 1970s, Creem magazine featured a popular series called Stars Cars, spotlighting rock stars posing with their personal cars—an often humorous, flashy, or revealing glimpse into their offstage lives. It wasn’t just about the vehicles—it was about the attitude, the aesthetic, and sometimes the a...

General Motors is revealing a futuristic new electric-powered Corvette concept imagined by a new UK-based design team in Birmingham, England. The team developed a hypercar design inspired by the aviation industry, with a highly sculptured, aerodynamic design; powered gullwing doors; and an augmented...

Did you know: 85-90% of car journeys are made by only one person per vehicle. Big, heavy cars, taking up a lot of space on our roads, creating congestion and environmental issues. What if a car would fit you like a shoe? That is what YKS1 One offers: right-sized mobility for one. View the full proje...

#Drive Rally will be leaving Early Access this April. The indie rally racing game will launch with 22 cars (with customisation options), 3 rally classes and over 600km of rally stages spread across 6 different locations. On top of all that, #Drive Rally will also include classic championships, a fre...

I first learned to drive when I was around 10 years old and had a driver’s license by the time I was 16. AI is now about 73 years old and still can’t drive. What gives? Continue Reading Category: Automotive, Transport Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Self driving cars, Self-Driving, Autonomous Vehicle...

It isn't easy to recycle high-voltage batteries from electric cars, but Porsche wants to take a stab at it. The plan: extract raw materials from old EV batteries to make fresh ones for its own electric models. Continue Reading Category: Energy, Technology Tags: Batteries, Electric Vehicles, Recyclin...

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) says it’s delaying shipments to the US this month while it works out how it will deal with the wide-ranging tariffs President Donald Trump announced this week, according to The Guardian. “As we work to address the new trading terms with our business partners, we are taking so...

"There are other electric cars they could purchase." City faces fierce backlash after excluding certain EVs from new incentive program: 'Don't count on taxpayer money' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Democrat-run media says car prices will go up 25% due to Trump’s new tariffs. My prediction: average transaction price goes up 3% and if we hold the car model and trim level constant, up 5%. What’s the basis of my prediction? Americans spend every penny they can earn, borrow, win in family court, in...

President Donald Trump’s 25 percent tariffs on all auto-related imports have been called “a debacle of epic proportions” and a sure-fire way to tank the auto market by crushing demand. Analysts have been predicting everything from $12,000 per vehicle price hikes to the possible “Cubanization...

"We achieved a 92% retention after 500 charging cycles." Scientists make game-changing discovery with potential to revolutionize future cars: 'It's really exciting to be at this stage' first appeared on The Cool Down.

The Canadian prime minister has hit back at the U.S. car industry.

Honda is looking to the stars for its next hydrogen breakthrough. The automaker is teaming up with space tech companies Sierra Space and Tec-Masters to test its high-differential pressure water electrolysis system on the International Space Station. The test is part of Honda’s vision to support life...

"The equivalent of removing 100 million cars off of the road." Government takes first-ever action to restart domestic nuclear site: 'Yet another step' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Hyundai isn't exactly the first name you'd think of when it comes to racecars. But it's exactly that perception that the South Korean manufacturer has sought to change with its Insteroid concept. Continue Reading Category: Automotive, Transport Tags: Hyundai, Electric Vehicles, Concept Cars, Racing,...

Hyundai’s Ioniq 6 electric sedan already had a polarizing “streamliner” design that only owners seem to love. Now the automaker has massaged the front a bit more for a new look for 2026. The latest Ioniq 6 has squintier daytime running lights and headlights that are lower down into the bumper, somet...

“Liberation Day” has arrived. Get ready to be liberated from affordable vehicle prices. As promised, President Donald Trump’s 25 percent tariffs for imported vehicles went into effect Thursday, sending the auto industry into full panic mode. Some analysts are predicting a $5,000 to $10,000 pri...

Scientists from Skoltech, the Institute of Nanotechnology of Microelectronics, RAS, and other research centers have refined the understanding of how plasma treatment of carbon-based electrodes affects the key characteristics of supercapacitors. These are energy storage devices that complement batter...

Source Mark Rober's video Can You Fool A Self Driving Car? demonstrating why self-driving cars need LIDAR not just cameras was extremely well done, and deserved its 16M views, but it was easily the least bad recent news for Tesla. When your sales figures and your stock price look this bad, desperati...

Smartphone apps that track our driving behavior may be the key to safer road conditions. The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety just published a study that found that using smartphone apps to monitor driver behavior, and then providing summaries of that behavior via text message or a data dashboard, ...

Cars will cost more. TVs will cost more. Blue jeans will cost more. Everything will cost more. Is this really how we’re going to revive manufacturing?

Amid growing fallout over Elon Musk’s involvement in the Trump administration, Tesla’s sales fell a staggering 13 percent in the first quarter of 2025 year over year. The company said it produced a total of 362,615 vehicles in the first three months of the year, including 345,454 Model 3 and Model Y...

Hyundai has revealed a gaming-inspired “Insteroid” concept EV in Seoul that takes its tiny all-electric Inster and gives it an over-the-top street racing makeover. The automaker’s cutesy compact SUV was handed off to Hyundai’s European design team with the goal of merging “gaming influences with ext...

"Both short-term and short-sighted." Experts concerned by unexpected change millions of motorists are making to cars: 'Not the transition that we are aiming for' first appeared on The Cool Down.

We’ve all seen surfers and surfing competitions. Ho hum. We’ve seen big wave surfers falling off 50-foot wave faces. Yawn. Well, here’s a glimpse of the next big thing. Surfing over shopping trolleys! This can only lead to surfing over cars and semi-trucks. What’s not to like! You heard it here firs...

Smartphones are great. They’re also… a lot. The idea of a more balanced device, one that gives you all of the most important and useful features of a smartphone but keeps you out of the infinite-doomscrolling loops, has been an enticing one for a long time. Nailing that balance, though, turns ou...

These days, even an economy car can reach 100 mph. Sports cars can double that. Despite having the power to do so, few drivers zoom around at such speeds, understanding that the potential consequences—a speeding ticket, license revocation or a deadly accident—can be bad.However, people have demonstr...

Oscar Schwartz in The Drift: As Isaacson surveyed the landscape in search of a new genius, one name kept coming up: Elon Musk. He was, without a doubt, a man with grand vision — electric cars, space travel, telepathy. He was unyielding in this vision, too, sometimes belligerently so. …Nevertheless, ...

As TikTok’s April 5th sell-by date approaches, Americans are back to where they stood before the original January deadline: watching anxiously to see if a major social media app gets banned. But that’s far from the only big event we’ll see over the coming month. April is filled with momentous turn...

"Let’s build high-speed rails next to highways to show the inferior speed of cars." Video exposes brutal truth about driving compared to high-speed rail: 'The only sales pitch I need' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Thousands of anti-Tesla protesters took to the streets Saturday March 29th in opposition to Elon Musk and his efforts with DOGE to eliminate humanitarian aid, close federal agencies, and fire government workers. It was the culmination of nearly two months of steady, almost daily demonstrations aimed...

A great way to beat the NYC traffic is to ride down the street in one of these motorized lawn chairs. Not only are these a practical solution to riding around cars, but they also bring a little piece of vacation with you, wherever you go. — Read the rest The post Ditch the subway and ride through NY...

Compared to Maskachusetts, Florida is the land of the divided thoroughfare, dedicated left turn lane, and legal U-turn. It’s a little tough for people making a right turn on the cross street, though, to determine if a driver is making a left turn (no conflict) or a U-turn (conflict). Now that all of...

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Photos by William Klayer This morning on First Avenue and Ninth Street... OK, who stole the lug nuts?

Drivers are falling out of love with the tech-forward touch screens that have become commonplace in modern cars.

"Elon Musk started spending that money within days of Tesla filing a lawsuit." Elon Musk wages legal battle to ensure more Tesla cars hit the market: 'It is no coincidence' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Google hopes you will park and play, but most gaming in cars will only make sense if self-driving vehicles are a thing.

As protests against Tesla continue to grow, Elon Musk is threatening to “go after” the people who say or post anything negative about the company — which he labels “propaganda.”  That was what I took away from Elon Musk’s 38-minute interview on Fox News last night, which largely focuse...