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Germany strikes deal with EU on combustion engine phaseout
Germany and the European Commission on Saturday said a deal had been reached over an agreed phase-out of combustion engine vehicles. To the irritation of some in Brussels, consensus on the issue was being held up by opposition from within Germany's ruling coalition government.
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Self-Driving Cars Need to Be 99.99982% Crash-Free to Be Safer Than Humans
As companies race to build self-driving cars, there’s always a question: How safe is safe enough? After all, humans drivers still crash every day — surely a system that crashes less, even if it’s not perfect, is better than your average FaceTiming motorist. Just how good does an autonomous car have to be, in order to beat us fleshy human drivers at the safety game?
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Mercedes will reportedly drop the EQ brand to prepare for an all-electric future | Engadget
Mercedes may ditch the EQ brand for its electric cars as soon as 2024..
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Here’s the electric car that Sony is going to build with Honda
The new brand is called Afeela and goes on sale late 2025.
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Can you live with a Citroen Ami? We put the dinky EV to the test
From using it as a taxi from the train station, to tackling a drive-thru and even a visit to the recycling centre, we put Britain's smallest new car through its paces in a week-long test.
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Weird cars are becoming the new normal
Hyundai stands out with its weird gimmicks.
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Your next car might not drive if you've been drinking
Your next car is likely to know if you've been drinking too much and block you from driving.
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California wants everyone to drive EVs. How will low-income people afford them?
When Graciela Deniz worked as a health educator at a medical office in Kerman, California, it seemed like all the doctors drove Teslas. Deniz, 32, assumed electric vehicles were a luxury reserved for those with high incomes, until she started a new job last year as a community health worker at the Central California Asthma Collaborative. The organization was involved with the EV Equity program, an initiative to help low-income residents in the San Joaquin Valley buy electric vehicles.
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California just struck a major blow to car culture
For decades, many California cities, like Los Angeles and San Diego, have been synonymous with sprawl. But by eliminating parking minimums in areas near public transit, the Golden State just took a major step to change that.
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Your Kids Won't Even Know What High Beams Are
Headlights on new US cars may soon leap forward thanks to a little-noticed regulation that took effect in February, allowing cars on American roads to use lights that intelligently adapt their beam brightness and shape in ways that will utterly change our expectations of headlights. It's a change the insurance companies, safety advocates and I have been eagerly awaiting.
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This Is the Best-Sounding Minivan on the Planet
The Espace F1 has a V10 engine from a Formula 1 car. That's all you need to know.
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Buttons beat touchscreens in cars, and now there’s data to prove it
Swedish publication Vi Bilägare quantified the problem with new tests.
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'We are killing people': How technology has made your car 'a candy store of distraction'
Digital distraction is helping drive a surge in highway deaths. Yet automakers continue to load cars with new interactive technology, and consumers say they can't stop texting and video-calling behind the wheel.
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No, BMW is not making heated seats a subscription for US cars
In Korea, BMW will let owners subscribe to options instead of buying them outright.
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New cars will stop drivers from speeding under European laws
From today, new cars sold in Europe must be fitted with technology to help discourage speeding. The European Union has introduced regulations which will
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Why do some people want their cars to be loud? Reasons for the Noisy Ride
For those who are not into cars, it can be perplexing as to why some people enjoy making their engines loud. Join us as we analayze the phenomenon.
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The push-button ignition was a luxurious way to start your car until it wasn’t
"No keys, push to start."
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Car tyres produce vastly more particle pollution than exhausts, tests show
Toxic particles from tyre wear almost 2,000 times worse than from exhausts as weight of cars increases
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Even Crazy Gas Prices Can't Convince Americans to Buy EVs, Says New Survey
High prices, range concerns, and a lack of charging infrastructure make electric cars a no-go for many Americans.
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It will soon be easy for self-driving cars to hide in plain sight. We shouldn’t let them.
If they ever hit our roads for real, other drivers need to know exactly what they are.
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