Watch a Deeply Weird Video of Toyota's Basketball Robot Sinking a Three-Pointer

If you’re a professional basketball player and have been smugly snickering at all those annoyingly confident that your gig is, and always will be, safe, then I have some bad news for you. Toyota, maker of your friend’s gray-market and your enemy’s Prius, has developed a robot that can sink...

Sep 13, 2025

The Future of Your Car's Infotainment Screen Is Dystopian and Bleak

Without fail, nearly every new-car press release I read includes a snippet about how big the screen is. This is just the way things are now. It’s nearly impossible to get a new car without a screen. And with the way things are headed, this is the next hot...

Sep 13, 2025

A Bipartisan Group in Congress Wants to Expand the Electric Vehicle Tax Credit

The $7,500 federal tax credit for buying an electric vehicle is being phased out for Tesla and Chevrolet. But a bipartisan group of legislators in Congress wants to reverse that, and, in fact, expand it. You see, that federal tax credit only applies to automakers who have sold fewer...

Sep 13, 2025

Does Bentley Make the Most Powerful Four-Door Car in the World? (No.)

Bentley sure makes some nice cars, don’t they? They really do. Lovely, impressive things, full of grandeur and presence. But that doesn’t mean they’re infallible. In fact, they make a pretty bold claim right on their website about making the “most powerful four-door car in the world” that a...

Sep 13, 2025

While All of You Were Doing Whatever, Geely Was Launching a Whole New EV Brand

Geely isn’t one of the very biggest carmakers in China, but it’s growing increasingly well-known here in America, what with its recent and . So it’s worth keeping an eye on, particularly when it launches a new all-electric brand emphasizing “overseas” sales. You’re looking at the first car of...

Sep 13, 2025

Here's a Video That Explains The Difference Between a Dual Clutch and a Sequential Manual Gearbox

Sure, you know the differences between your basic automatic and manual transmissions—but could you rattle off a comparison between all the different kinds of gearboxes car manufacturers have developed over the years? If not, then let this be your guide. There has been a little of confusion of late...

Sep 13, 2025

Why Volvo Is Convinced Cars Need to Talk to Each Other

Volvo’s belief in safety is, in my experience, pretty sincere, even if it’s also an exercise in branding that has made it piles of money along the way. Still, its latest safety innovation has the potential to solve one of the biggest problems with cars today, even if it...

Sep 13, 2025

Our Headlights Are Trash and We Need to Make Them Better

In 2016, the said that . In 2018, it published another study that found that most OEM headlights were . And now, here are America’s safety parents at with some advice to alleviate the issue: We should just be like the Europeans and Canadians. Adaptive driving beam headlights, which...

Sep 13, 2025

16 Arrested In Chicago Theft of 100 Car2go Mercedes

For as long as there have been electronic devices, humans have been trying to find ways to circumvent them for personal gain. A string of automobile thefts today in Chicago saw as many as 100 Car2go Mercedes rideshare cars disappear through a series of fraudulent rentals. Chicago PD released...

Sep 13, 2025

Here's What Nikola Motors Is Getting Right About Electric Transportation

The kind of appeared out of nowhere in 2016 with a grand plan for futuristic hydrogen-electric big rigs trucks for hauling. We still haven’t seen these vehicles on the road en masse, and this week the company expanded on its schemes with a new truck, a UTV, a military...

Sep 13, 2025

Uber Feature Enables Female Saudi Drivers to Only Transport Other Women

Last June, Saudi Arabia ended its ban on women drivers—a fact that saw women getting behind the wheel of Ubers as well as personal cars. Now, is enabling a new feature to let those female Uber drivers filter their prospective ride-hailers by gender. The program is called Women Preferred...

Sep 13, 2025

Sono Motors Plans To Build Its Solar-Powered Electric Cars At Former Saab Plant

German electric car start-up is moving from the testing phase to the production phase in their efforts to develop a solar-powered battery pack on wheels. Sono has contracted with NEVs in Sweden to kickstart production at the old Saab plant in Trollhattan, . NEVs purchased Saab’s remaining assets when...

Sep 13, 2025

Having Perfected Self-Driving Cars, Tesla Is Working on a Crash Mode

At Tesla’s presentation today, an event orchestrated by the company to show off its self-driving capabilities, bragged that the company is close to being so good at self-driving technology that it will roll out even more driving modes for owners to use, depending on their mood and circumstance, including...

Sep 13, 2025

There's a Weird Way Certain Audio Tracks Can Brick a Car Stereo

A 2016 refused to play one podcast in particular, and the car’s owner was vexed. Everything else was streaming over Bluetooth just fine. But it turns out that the titling of an audio track can be more important to car audio functionality than you might think, in specific and...

Sep 13, 2025

Why Elon Musk Shouldn't Dismiss Lidar UPDATED

You probably have already heard that Elon Musk, noted Tesla boss and sayer of things, said , many of which, I’d say, are pretty questionable. I think the most questionable thing he said, though, has to do with his take on , which stands for Light Direction and Ranging,...

Sep 13, 2025