• Are Garbage Trucks the Next Frontier of Public Surveillance?

    Are Garbage Trucks the Next Frontier of Public Surveillance?
    The new frontier of automotive surveillance appears to have arrived. Texas now has garbage trucks (and other vehicles) equipped with AI-powered cameras that are supposed to evaluate properties to determine which Dallas residents need to be issued government fines. As the trucks run their usual route, the system is supposed to be giving each lot scores — which determine what kind of action the city might take against the relevant property owners.Based on reporting from a local NBC affiliate
  • Stellantis Recalls 200,000 Jeeps Over Faulty Tire Monitors

    Stellantis Recalls 200,000 Jeeps Over Faulty Tire Monitors
    Stellantis is calling more than 200,000 Jeep vehicles back to dealers in the United States, this time over a tire-pressure monitoring system that reportedly isn't doing its one job.The recall concerns a fault in the tire-pressure monitoring system, according to Reuters. Underinflated tires wear faster, handle worse, and in the extreme case fail outright at speed, which is why a working TPMS matters. A safety monitor that quietly stops functioning is exactly the sort of small defect that turns i
  • McLaren X-1: The One-Off Supercar That Ignored Everything McLaren Stood For

    McLaren X-1: The One-Off Supercar That Ignored Everything McLaren Stood For
    In the world of bespoke supercars, there are special editions, there are limited editions, and then there are true one-offs. Cars created not by marketing departments or racing regulations, but by a single wealthy customer with a vision and enough money to turn imagination into carbon fiber reality. And the McLaren X-1 is one of the latter.  Unveiled in 2012 at the prestigious Pebble Beach Concours weekend in California, the X-1 remains one of the most unusual cars ever to wear a McLaren b
  • Question of the Week: Is Stellantis Turning Your Head?

    Question of the Week: Is Stellantis Turning Your Head?
    Two years ago, Dodge finally lived up to its commitment to ending its run of long-in-the-tooth muscle cars — the Charger and Challenger — and then tried to usher in a new kind of muscle car: an electric one.  Ram killed the Hemi, ushering in new, powerful six-cylinders, in a so many different variants it was hard to keep track of. In the meantime, Jeep was well into its revival of the Wagoneer nameplate with the Wagoneer and Grand Wagoneer, plus the all-electric and somewhat sm
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  • Feds Tell Ford to Cut the CATL Cord — or Else

    Feds Tell Ford to Cut the CATL Cord — or Else
    U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy would very much like Ford to stop doing business with China. Ford would very much like Duffy to read the fine print. In a letter to CEO Jim Farley shared Tuesday, Duffy voiced "profound concern" over the automaker's dealings with Chinese firms and pressed Farley to sever the ties. Duffy painted Ford as "a foundational American brand actively intertwining its future with Chinese state-backed enterprises," a line that lands somewhere between a warning and