Good Gravy: AMG Is Getting 416 Horsepower Out of Just a 2.0-Liter Turbo Four

In every way I’ve seen so far, Mercedes-Benz has really stepped it up with the new and its coupe-ier sibling the CLA. What was once a penalty box designed solely to get millennials into dealerships and then trap them into leasing a more expensive SUV is now far nicer...

Apr 21, 2026

Startup Aurora Partners With FCA to Develop Autonomous Commercial Vehicles

Earlier this year, , a self-driving startup, raised over from investors. It looks like the company is still doing okay, as Aurora announced yesterday that they’ll be partnering with Fiat Chrysler to start developing autonomous platforms for their commercial vehicles. More from : Over the last two years, this...

Apr 21, 2026

I Rode All the E-Scooters. Most of Them Are Awful Except Two

One weekend morning toward the end of 2017, I woke up at home in Venice, CA and took a walk, only to see something entirely new: people on electric scooters. And I mean lots of people on electric scooters. Literally overnight, a new company called Bird, founded just two miles...

Apr 21, 2026

GM's Cruise Self-Driving Prototypes Are Riddled With Technical Glitches, Safety Concerns: Report

Last time we checked in on ’ autonomous-vehicle arm, it was worth a , because the dream of a self-driving world is one people are willing to dump loads of cash into, or not. That $19 billion,though, has apparently gotten Cruise a whole lot of on-road glitches and safety...

Apr 21, 2026

Reddittor Wonders: Should I Just Give Elon My Money?

I know there’s sort of a stereotype about a certain sort of painfully obsessed Tesla fan/Elon Musk worshipper that is, likely, an unfair categorization of most Tesla fans. But then you see something like , and you remember that, oh yeah, sometimes stereotypes do come from somewhere. The OP...

Apr 21, 2026

Tesla Driver Imitates Regulators by Appearing to Fall Asleep With Autopilot On

We’ve , and you better believe we’re going to see a hell of a lot more of it. According to and an interview with the person who shot the footage, a Tesla driver fell asleep at the wheel of the car while it was moving on a federal interstate for...

Apr 21, 2026

It's Time to Give Semi-Autonomous Cars a Driving Test

We live, my friends, in a world of anarchy. Chaos reigns over our streets. We live in a society that tolerates half-demented, half-driving barely-robot cars. Teslas that can be fooled with an orange. Cadillacs that stare at you with the eye of Sauron. Volvos and Kias that require you...

Apr 21, 2026

Even the Guy Who Started a Church Worshipping A.I. Is Pulling Back on Driverless Car Gospel

, the guy you may recall from the center of the over autonomous vehicle I.P., the radical who , the person who allegedly to take them where they weren’t permitted only to get into a crash, injure a co-worker, and allegedly covered it up, that freaking guy, is now...

Apr 21, 2026

Confusion Between Self-Driving Cars and Driver-Assistance Systems Is Still Rampant: Study

The modern car market is in a period of transition as features migrate onto it, and not in the joyous, life-is-about-to-change-forever kind of way. It’s more like it just hit middle school, and a bunch of terrible, miserable things no one understands are happening to it. The news now...

Apr 21, 2026

New York City Is Getting E-Scooters, Hilarity Sure to Ensue

As shared e-scooters have proliferated around the world, resulting in frequent hand-wringing and disproportionate media attention relative to the damage and inconvenience they cause, a handful of cities have remained outside the e-scooter bubble due to local laws prohibiting the little rascals (no, not ). One of those cities,...

Apr 21, 2026

Florida's Potentially Deadly Autonomous Car Experiment Is Just Beginning

On June 13, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law that opens the door to fully autonomous vehicles in a way no other state has. “A fully autonomous vehicle may operate in this state regardless of whether a human operator is physically present in the vehicle,” the law reads...

Apr 21, 2026

The Lightyear One 'Solar Car' Is Amazing But Isn't Quite What You Think It Is

The tagline of Lightyear One’s website reads “,” and while, yes, this is technically true, in practice it’s really sort of bullshit. Yes, the car does have about 15 square feet of fairly efficient solar panels, but calling it a “solar” car like are , is very misleading. It’s...

Apr 21, 2026

I Rode in BMW's Absurd 710 HP Electric 5 Series Development Car; Here's How It Works

BMW calls it “Lucy.” It’s 710 horsepower, 848 lb-ft, triple-electric-motor, one-off sedan that the automaker says can do 0-62 mph in 2.8 seconds. Lucy’s being used to develop future electric vehicles, and after getting a ride in this modified 5 Series, I can tell you that the thing is...

Apr 21, 2026

Swapping Spark Plugs for Quick Plasma Pulses Could Potentially Improve Efficiency by 20 Percent

I’m not sure if you realize this, but spark plugs are older than the American Civil War. Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir first used electric spark plugs on his 1860 gas engine, and in the intervening 159 years since then, they really haven’t changed all that much, fundamentally. They’re one...

Apr 21, 2026

Approximately 100 Colorado Drivers Drove Into Mud Because Google Maps Told Them To

There is an over-reliance on technology, especially when it comes to navigating. I’m just as guilty as most of you when it comes to simply plugging my destination into my phone and blindly following the directions. Most of the time, it’s fine. Until it isn’t, and your navigation system directs...

Apr 21, 2026