For The Love Of God, Stop Taking Ubers To The Empire State Building

The Empire State Building is one of the most convenient locations in the world to get to via public transportation. It is close to pretty much all the subways: the 1,2,3, 4, 5, 6, 7, A, C, E, B, D, F, M, N, Q, R, and W lines are...

Apr 22, 2026

Lexus' First Electric Car Is Not For America Because Somehow Toyota Still Believes In Hydrogen Over Here

Right before Thanksgiving, Lexus announced its (and, really, all of Toyota’s) first real mass-market battery electric vehicle, . It’s not really all that radical a vehicle. It’s essentially an electric version of the Lexus UX crossover, with a decent-enough range of almost 250 miles. Even though this seems like...

Apr 22, 2026

BMW Won't Charge You A Ridiculous Annual Fee To Use Apple CarPlay Anymore

Earlier this year, was widely called out for the pettiest of price gouging by charging owners $80 a year to use CarPlay, a feature that is often included in infotainment packages on much cheaper cars elsewhere. To save some face, BMW has decided to not do that anymore. At...

Apr 22, 2026

Remember The Acura SLX? This One Got A Very Modern Upgrade For Radwood

You remember the Acura SLX, don’t you? Wait, what’s that? You... don’t remember the Acura SLX? How disappointing. I was counting on all of you to keep track of the world’s obscure Isuzu Trooper variants. (It was a Holden and an Opel too!) But now the SLX is back,...

Apr 22, 2026

Kansas City Almost Has Free Public Transit, But Should It?

Free public transportation is an idea that has floated around various circles for some time without gaining much traction here in the U.S., but Kansas City appears ready to give it a go. On Thursday, the City Council unanimously approved a measure that puts in motion a plan to...

Apr 22, 2026

Is Electric The Answer For The Mazda Miata?

is considering an electric or hybrid powertrain for the next , according to with Mazda R&D boss Ichiro Hirose. A low-cost electric roadster sounds like a blast, but I wonder if battery technology exists for a Miata to have both decent range and the lightweight dynamics that the Miata...

Apr 22, 2026

Unicorn Scooter Company Finds Profit To Be A Mythical Beast

It takes a special kind of audacity for your startup to be successful, and a special kind of audacity to name your startup “”. Sadly, the overlapping of those two audacious circles did not spell success for one company. Unicorn’s founder, Nick Evans, sent an email to customers saying...

Apr 22, 2026

The Porsche Taycan Turbo's EPA Range Of 201 Miles Is So Bad Porsche Requested An Independent Test

When the first debuted as the Mission E concept, the company claimed the car would achieve up to 300 miles of range. But today, the EPA announced its estimated range for the 2020 Porsche Taycan Turbo is just 201 miles, leading Porsche to go and do its own independent...

Apr 22, 2026

IIHS Is Cracking Down On Headlight Quality

We may be going into the year 2020 as automakers talk of a future centered on autonomy and electrification, but in terms of the car technology we have in the year 2019, one is : headlights. But the wants to change that, and will try to do so by...

Apr 22, 2026

Lyft Has Found A New Way To Light Money On Fire

Lyft but seems to be doing everything they can to push that date back by for as little as $35 per day plus tacking on $20 in Lyft credits for getting to and from the car. The Verge that San Franciscans will be able to choose between a Volkswagen...

Apr 22, 2026

Electric Vehicles Should Come With Electric Dinghys

The Dinghy. A trusted companion of any worthwhile waterborne vessel. What is a boat without a dinghy? It is just a dinghy itself, albeit one that is not on another boat. There are many reasons to have a dinghy on your larger boat. Well, only two really. It can...

Apr 22, 2026

Here's Why The Porsche Taycan Turbo's EPA Range Is So Bad

This week, we learned the EPA rated the new ’s range at just 201 miles on a charge. That’s worse than almost every other electric car on sale today, and far worse than the 300 miles Porsche teased a couple of years ago, so what made the EPA figure...

Apr 22, 2026

Your Modern Car Is A Privacy Nightmare

Next time you feel the need to justify to a family member, friend, or random acquaintance why you drive an old shitbox instead of a much more comfortable, modern vehicle, here’s another reason for you to trot out: your old shitbox, unlike every modern car, is not spying on...

Apr 22, 2026

You Have No Idea How Insanely Complex Modern Headlights Can Be I Mean Holy Crap They Have GPS

If you’re like me, most of your experience with car headlights has been to switch them from dim to slightly less dim so you can try to avoid hitting all the deer on a drive down a rural road. Car headlamps have come a hell of a long way...

Apr 22, 2026

Do Robots Dream Of Shredding Tires?

Stanford University has built an incredible robot which only exists for the purposes of absolutely ripping. This is MARTY, an autonomous electric-swapped DMC12, and it has been programmed to kill shred tires around a 1-kilometer drift course. You know, for science. This may be the absolute pinnacle of my personal...

Apr 22, 2026