I was really excited to spend some time with the Kia EV6 GT. I read all the specs. 576 horsepower. 545 lb-ft of torque. 0-60 in less than 3.5 seconds. It’s the quickest car I’ve ever driven, but none of that matters. The only thing that matters is I couldn’t drive it without an extreme …
Cruise has ceased driverless car operations nationwide. After a very public incident involving a pedestrian, San Francisco officials and California state regulators banned the company from operations in the city, just months after approving an expansion of service. After it was discovered that the company left out key details regarding the incident involving one of …
Car videos on YouTube — with a few exceptions — are generally bad. They fall into two camps: Someone filming on a cell phone with minimal (if any) editing, talking for half an hour before they do a single simple mod, or the most in-your-face high-energy presenting you’ve ever seen. There’s a third genre, though, …
Here at Jalopnik, we’re no stranger to cars crashing into buildings. Just yesterday, we wrote about Alan Ruck of Ferris Bueller fame crashing his Rivian into a Hollywood pizza restaurant. Also, a quick search of our site shows this one, this one, this one, this one and this one. And that’s only scratching the surface …
Photo: AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images (Getty Images) Three passengers have filed a lawsuit against Alaska Airlines. The plaintiffs were onboard Flight 2059 when off-duty pilot Joseph David Emerson, riding the cockpit jump seat, attempted to shut off the plane’s engines. He was dragged out of the cockpit and restrained as the flight was diverted. Emerson told the …
Photo: Audi Audi plans to offer more “on-demand” features in future models, Autocar reports. Just don’t assume it’s about making more money, though. No, according to Audi it’s because the customers demand it. Because if there’s one thing I want to do after I spend a lot of money on a car, it’s spending even …
A silver Toyota Camry, similar to the one that broke thorough the fencePhoto: Toyotacoronaexsaloon / Wikimedia Commons A driver in South Carolina plowed through the security fences at a nuclear power plant with a 2002 Toyota Camry, ABC News reports. Thankfully, the sedan didn’t make it all the way to the reactor and start a …
Police in Washington D.C. are giving away Apple AirTags in an effort to curb car thefts, which have more than doubled in the last year, according to WAMU. The Mayor of D.C., Muriel Bowser, calls it a “pilot program” in which police are using all tools at their disposal to keep the capital city safe …
Photo: Tesla Unless you’re an Elon Musk fanboy who is convinced there’s nothing wrong with him platforming bigots, spreading white genocide nonsense, making anti-semitic comments and just generally being a terrible person, you probably think the Tesla Cybertruck is going to be an extremely dumb truck. Still, it’s coming. One of these days. Eventually. So …
Screenshot: WRAL Drivers traveling along a North Carolina road were shocked to see a digital sign displaying the racial slur “n****r” last Friday. The North Carolina Department of Transportation stated that an unknown perpetrator had hacked the sign at some point overnight, WRAL reports. The sign’s vulgar message was removed by the following morning, but …