If You Like To Do Outdoorsy Stuff Autonomous Cars Will Have A Big Issue No One Seems To Be Addressing

I’m not sure if you’re aware of this, but, despite , I am . I haul my canoe around, like so many others, on the roof rack of my car. People haul all kinds of things on the exterior of their cars—cargo carriers on roofs, bikes at the rear, lumber...

Apr 22, 2026

BMW Patents A Weird Driving Yoke To Manually Control Autonomous Vehicles

One of the stranger things about the coming of autonomous vehicles is the dawning realization that, sometimes, they still may need to be driven by a human. And, at the same time, if a vehicle is primarily autonomous, you can no longer count on the fact that one of...

Apr 22, 2026

Donkervoort's Getting Into Colored Carbon Fiber

I know you wake up every morning wondering: “What’s Donkervoort up to?” Well, after claiming to have a car that can pull two g’s in a turn, its now adding an embellishment. Would you like your Dutch supercar in colored carbon fiber? We’re not yet sure what to make...

Apr 22, 2026

Could You Drive The Gordon Murray T.50 By Only Using Its Big-Ass Fan?

I think we’ve all been pretty dazzled by the new —and I kind of eye-rollish, but in this case I think it’s justified. It’s such a pure exercise in technology employed to make driving really exciting: small, featherweight, an advanced, naturally-aspirated V12, carbon body, and, maybe most excitingly, that...

Apr 22, 2026

Don't Listen To These Assholes For A Second

Today, California ruled that must stop pretending that their drivers are independent contractors and start treating them for what they are: employees. Uber and Lyft’s responses are, of course, exactly the kind of weak shit you would expect. Here’s the main news via : A California judge ruled that...

Apr 22, 2026

Tesla Model 3 Ranked Last For Highway Range Accuracy In Polestar-Backed Study

Polestar is spinning up the campaign for its all-new fully electric compact sedan, the , and it has the in its sights. An “independent firm” hired by Polestar to do a simulated highway test showed the Tesla was the least efficient of five vehicles tested. Full disclosure: the news...

Apr 22, 2026

Listen To A Bunch Of People Much Smarter Than Me Agree That Level 2 Automation Kinda Sucks

I had an interesting experience recently when I of my friend , a very respected physicist who normally has guests far, far smarter than me. What I found especially interesting was moving outside of my usual audience bubble of fetishy gearheads like myself, and into the world of the...

Apr 22, 2026

Mercedes-AMG Is Still Working On That F1-Powered Street-Legal Hypercar

I did not think Mercedes-AMG was serious about putting its 1,000-horsepower on the road when it was , my skepticism was reinforced by , but it doesn’t seem like the Benz boys and girls are quite ready to give up. You can now watch a prototype rip in track...

Apr 22, 2026

Love's Truck Stops Are Making The Pivot To Electric

The electric revolution is coming, and it will be live streamed. This week electric charger infrastructure company Electrify America announced a partnership with Love’s truck stops to install 28 new stations in six states. The company recently installed its 2000th charging station installation in just two years of operation,...

Apr 22, 2026

Lucid Claims The Air Will Be Able To Charge Up To 300 Miles In 20 Minutes UPDATED

If we’re looking at numbers, which we are, then it’s safe to say that seems to have a really viable Tesla competitor on their hands with their upcoming car, the Air. , which would make it the longest-range EV available, beating out Tesla’s Model S Long Range Plus with...

Apr 22, 2026

Rich People Can Now Buy Electrified Rolls-Royce Phantoms

I’m glad to see that there’s at least one company making the automotive world match the one that was foretold in the movie Gattaca, where lovely vintage cars are retrofitted into high-tech electric wonders. One such company is , which has . Now they’re taking a deeper gulp out...

Apr 22, 2026

I Hope Bollinger Can Pull This Off

Bollinger’s electric SUV and truck have been , and still not yet in production but also still edging ever closer to getting there. Bollinger’s ultimate plan is to do low volume vehicles at six-figure prices and I like it in large part because it has been doing all of...

Apr 22, 2026

Is Your City Trying To Get Bike Riders Killed?

I am fairly sure mine is. Today, the New York City Department of Transportation announced a new campaign seeking to increase the safety of bike riders in the Bronx. New bike lanes? Protected ones, with barriers, painted green, with lots of clear signage to stave off inattentive drivers? Nope!...

Apr 22, 2026

The Volkswagen ID.4's Interior Is Happily Uncluttered

There’s probably no good reason the upcoming all-electric Volkswagen ID.4 (the one ) doesn’t have a bench seat, and I wish center screens were a little more mobile, but otherwise, I like the minimalism of VW’s design. It is, very happily (to me) not too busy, in new images...

Apr 22, 2026

Tesla Model Y Owners Have Found Home Depot Stuff Used To Mount A Critical Part

I know true Tesla stans like to believe that each and every car is created from a soup of pure matter, assembled at the atomic level via beams from Elon Musk’s third eye before having artificial life fucked into them in a beautiful and arcane ceremony involving Elon in...

Apr 22, 2026