The team at Jalopnik recently encountered a Tesla Cybercab prototype in traffic and delivered the kind of clear-eyed automotive analysis we expect from that iconic masthead: “This Looks Like Poop From A Butt.” After reviewing the footage, you know what y’all, you’re not wrong. But how does Tesla’s gilded boy
A new Insurance Institute for Highway Safety study compared smartphone telematics with police reports for almost 17,000 crashes in Connecticut, Illinois, Ohio, and Texas. After excluding passive screen activity such as an untouched navigation display, the data still show a huge gap: phones detected active use before crashes far more
FSRI spent three years burning 15 EVs and 3 gasoline vehicles to figure out what happens when an EV battery joins the fire. The answer is mostly reassuring, right up until the battery starts doing battery stuff. In some ways, we’re building the modern automobile while we’re driving it. Occasionally,
Take a look at this. A Tesla Robotaxi in Austin pauses, seems to reconsider a right-hand turn through some bollards, and then decides: I’m just gonna send it. Tesla Robotaxi Rams through several Bollards and keeps going. by u/bladerskb in SelfDrivingCars “You Can’t Go This Way! Don’t Do That! Holy
TL;DR: Between May 2025 and May 2026, Waymo’s recall-scope count of autonomous cabs rose from 1,212 vehicles to 3,791 vehicles. That is more than a 3x increase in the Waymo fleet size in roughly one year. We set out to measure Tesla’s robotaxi progress. Along the way, I accidentally tripped
TLDR: Since Tesla’s June 2025 robotaxi launch, Tesla has built a 39-vehicle unsupervised fleet, while Waymo has a newly disclosed 3,791-vehicle U.S. fleet. So Tesla appears to be on pace to catch up with Waymo’s autonomous fleet size by the year 2111. Assuming, of course, Waymo politely stops building autonomous
Bahaha, imagine the used listing for this Hyundai Ioniq 6. “Yes, it runs (DOOM) and drives.” Basically, there are two universal laws in this world: A Hyundai Ioniq 6 driver on Reddit says they finally hacked and rooted their center console after about six months of messing with it, then
Updated as of late Monday: Amazon confirms these outages were the result of 2 direct hit drone strikes and 1 near miss drone strike. Update as of early Wednesday, outages are ongoing and the severity level of the incident is still at the maximum “Disrupted.” AWS says “objects” struck a
According to JD Power’s ChromeData, the Tesla’s most popular models have lost more than half their value since 2022, putting Tesla vehicles in podium position for all 3 of the top “Fastest Depreciating Automobiles of 2026” slots. Take a look, see the data for yourself: The Top 5 Fastest Depreciating
Tesla’s brief experiment with Raj Jegannathan as head of North American sales has come to an abrupt end, about 6 1/2 months after Reuters spotted him in the role last year. Jegannathan celebrated his planned departure in a recent LinkedIn post, calling it a journey of “continuous evolution,” before quietly
Mom always said cars were dangerous. Turns out, walking is worse. Growing up, we all got the same lecture: Be careful driving. Cars are dangerous. Don’t speed, don’t do donuts in the Walmart parking lot, and for the love of all that is holy, don’t text and drive. Well, turns
Remember when the electric Dodge Charger launched and everyone said, “Nice car, but absolutely not at that price”? Yeah. About that. Right now, you can buy a brand-new 2025 Dodge Charger EV for $28,935, which is less than half of its original MSRP. Sitting on a dealer lot, with less