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What a great son! He claims the department violated his civil rights. The rider thought he could smoke a state trooper. He fell for quite the ruse. They didn’t stand a chance of keeping up. We could watch these videos all day. Guess he doesn’t want it anymore? The driver learned an expensive lesson. Things are changing

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theautowire.com > 08/14/2026 > iihs-driver-death-rate-discontinued-cars

IIHS Just Ranked America's Most Dangerous Cars. The Industry Already Killed Seven of Them

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (765+ words) death rates in the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s newest report, and something jumps out that never...America. It’s a story about how the industry solved a safety problem it was never trying to solve, and left...

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theautowire.com > 08/31/2026 > china-car-safety-crackdown-price-war

China's #1 Bestselling Car Just Failed Its Own Safety Audit — And That's Not Even the Scary Part

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (207+ words) Somewhere in a Chinese testing facility, a government inspector measured the wheelbase on a Geely Xingyuan pulled straight off a dealer’s lot. The number didn’t match what Geely had filed with regulators. Not by much. But by more than the…...

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theautowire.com > 08/20/2026 > tesla-cybercab-no-backup-plan-employees-ride-first

Tesla's Cybercab Has No Steering Wheel and No Backup Plan — Which Is Why Employees Ride First, Not You

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (898+ words) been having with Washington. Federal motor vehicle safety standards, the rules governing things as mundane...pod. NHTSA didn’t approve Zoox against a finished safety standard for driverless vehicles. It approved Zoox...

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theautowire.com > 09/09/2026 > teslas-self-steering-crash-save-the-rules-nobody-wrote-yet

Tesla's Self-Steering Crash Save: The Rules Nobody Wrote Yet

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (533+ words) The internal name floating around is Automatic Collision Evasion. Whatever it ends up being called on the touchscreen, the concept is a genuine break from how every driver-assistance system on the American market has worked until now, and it creates…...

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theautowire.com > 08/25/2026 > black-hat-just-proved-your-ev-charger-can-infect-your-car-and-everything-else-nearby

Black Hat Just Proved Your EV Charger Can Infect Your Car—And Everything Else Nearby

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (775+ words) Forget air-gapped security discussions. Forget the naive assumption that physical charging hardware couldn’t be turned into an attack vector. A research team just demonstrated something far more unsettling: a single compromised charger becomes a worm that autonomously spreads to other…...

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theautowire.com > 08/25/2026 > waymo-nhtsa-school-zone-investigation-redacted

Waymo Told NHTSA How It Decides School-Zone Speeds. Then It Blacked Out the Answer.

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (335+ words) trade secret even while it’s evidence in a federal safety investigation. Shawn Henry has been writing about...

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theautowire.com > 09/09/2026 > teslas-cybercab-didnt-ask-permission-to-ditch-the-steering-wheel-now-the-feds-want-a-word

Tesla's Cybercab Didn't Ask Permission to Ditch the Steering Wheel. Now the Feds Want a Word.

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (873+ words) later, on September 3, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened what’s called an Audit Query...the Cybercab meets every Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard that applies to it. NHTSA Administrator...goes on sale in the United States. Since the 1966 Safety…...

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theautowire.com > 08/14/2026 > flock-license-plate-error-press-fleet-range-rover

Flock Just Rewrote Its Privacy Rules. It Still Can't Stop A Typo From Turning A Press-Fleet Range Rover Into A 'Stolen' Car

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (287+ words) The driver hadn’t stolen anything. He’s an automotive journalist who was testing a manufacturer press loaner, and his wife was riding along. Officers had him out of the car with his hands raised before anyone worked out that the “stolen…...

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theautowire.com > 09/01/2026 > chevy-camaro-as-a-teens-first-car-what-the-crash-and-claims-data-show

Chevy Camaro as a Teen's First Car: What the Crash and Claims Data Show

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (796+ words) What the screen actually excludes Note that second clause. It isn’t a horsepower threshold. It’s a marketing test. A vehicle sold on the promise of dominance gets excluded regardless of what the dyno says — and IIHS goes further, warning that…...

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theautowire.com > 08/17/2026 > 2027-dodge-charger-ppv-police-car-no-v8

Dodge Is Building a Cop Car Again Because Police Never Cared About the V8 in the First Place

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1151+ words) There is a number buried in Stellantis’s own 2023 fleet brochure that quietly demolishes the mythology of the American V8 police car, and almost nobody bothers to look it up. The 5.7-liter HEMI in the final Dodge Charger Pursuit made 370 horsepower. That’s…...

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