DETROIT (AP) — Two fatal crashes involving Ford’s Blue Cruise partially automated driving system have drawn the attention of U.S. auto safety regulators. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation of the crashes, both involving Mustang Mach-E electric vehicles on freeways in nighttime lighting conditions, the agency said in documents Monday. The […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Since retiring two years ago, Joan Harris has upped her travel game. Once or twice a year, she visits her two adult children in different states. She’s planning multiple other trips, including to a science fiction convention in Scotland and a Disney cruise soon after that, along with a trip next year […]
BEIJING (AP) — China‘s vision of the future of the automobile — electrified and digitally connected — is on display at the ongoing Beijing auto show. Organizers say that 117 new models are making their debut at Auto China 2024, which runs through May 4. They range from eye-poppingly cutting edge to more subtle novelties. […]
Chicago police on Sunday said an officer was gunned down in the Southwest Side overnight while heading home from his shift. Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling confirmed that Officer Luis M. Huesca was shot around 3 a.m. in the 3100 block of West 56th Street. The officer was taken to a hospital in critical condition, […]
A 79-year-old man died in Montara, California, after driving his car over a cliff with a 200-foot drop near Grey Whale Cove State Beach along U.S. Highway 1. He went over the cliff at around 12:30 p.m. Thursday, the California Highway Patrol told San Francisco ABC affiliate KGO-TV. Firefighters from the California Department of Forestry […]
Nut Zero strikes again. The German Transport Minister is bowing to the inevitable: Net Zero laws in Germany must be changed. Unless they are, driving on weekends will have to be banned. Germans warned weekend driving may be banned to meet ‘net zero ‘ targets. A corresponding reduction in traffic performance would only be possible […]
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Tesla has settled a lawsuit brought by the family of a Silicon Valley engineer who died in a crash while relying on the company’s semi-autonomous driving software. The size of the settlement was not disclosed in court documents filed Monday, just a day before the trial stemming from the 2018 crash […]
Authorities in Oklahoma are looking for two women who mysteriously vanished last week in a remote part of the state’s panhandle. One of the women is the wife of a Kansas pastor and the other woman is a friend of the family. According to numerous reports, Veronica Butler, 27, and Jilian Kelley, 39, departed on […]
The Census Bureau recently released its latest report on “domestic” migration and the results demonstrate that Americans are on the move. And we’re talking about a lot of them. This particular study is interesting because it doesn’t just measure the flow of population between states. It breaks the numbers down to the county level, capturing […]
Running back Trevor Etienne, who has been counted upon to be a major force in Georgia’s football season after transferring from Florida, was arrested early Sunday in Athens, Georgia, on a charge of driving under the influence, according to news reports. Etienne, 19, is the younger brother of Jacksonville Jaguars star Travis Etienne. He was […]
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