Startup Kinetic rolls out robots to fix electric cars, and someday robotaxis Menlo Ventures, an early Uber investor, just led a $21 million round of funding in Kinetic, a startup making EV repairs quicker and less expensive.

Self-Driving Cars Still Only Safer Than Humans When Driving In Straight Lines Under Perfect Conditions Self-driving cars are pretty good at driving in a straight line in bright sunny conditions — better than a human, in fact — according to researchers at the University of Florida. However, that appears to be where the benefits of an autonomous vehicle ends, according to a new report. Read more…

These New Cars Will Be Timeless In A Few Decades, According To Our Readers It’s evident to anyone with a pulse that the vehicles we drive from A to B have changed from decade to decade. Noting this ever-shifting landscape, we asked earlier this week which current cars will become timeless in the next few decades. There are always models that stand the test of time and garner record bids at… Read more…

iOS 18 Can Help Reduce Your Motion Sickness in Cars Vehicle Motion Cues puts animated dots on your iPhone’s screen to reduce motion sickness.

These Are The Most Oddly Satisfying Things About Your Cars Oddly satisfying videos have taken the world by storm, but this is a transportation website. You’re not going to see any sand cutting videos or slime tutorials or whatever else oddly satisfies you freaks out there on other parts of the internet. This is for car weirdos, so here are the most oddly satisfying things… Read more…

What New Cars Will Be Timeless In A Few Decades? The cars currently rolling out onto our roads for the first time will likely be around for a long time. On average, a modern vehicle lasts roughly a dozen years. Looking back, certain vehicles from the 2010s can be easily marked as from that era and not for the better. I hate calling out an automaker in particular,… Read more…

Jaguar’s Final F-Type Is Destined For A Museum, Celebrating 50 Years Of Sports Cars Jaguar is getting out of the business of making sports cars, at least gasoline-powered ones. As the brand plans to transition to high-end EVs, Jag is celebrating its long history of sports cars by introducing the final edition of its most recent and last gas-powered sports car, the F-Type. Read more…

These Are The Best Cars Our Dads Had When We Were Growing Up For Father’s Day this year we’ve decided to take a trip down memory lane as a staff and share our favorite cars our dads drove when we were growing up. Some of us were very clearly luckier than others. Read more…

The Gayest Cars In The Los Angeles Pride Parade Ranked Queer folks love cars. I’m a part of a friend group with a lot of self-proclaimed car gays, and when you work in the automotive world you quickly learn that it’s a very queer space. That was a pleasant surprise for me when I first joined Mercedes-Benz Research and Development as a test driver years ago, and the longer… Read more…

What Cars Have The Ugliest Engine Bays? If you’re like me, when you pop the hood of a car, you want to actually see the engine. There are those among us who actually still appreciate admiring the beauty that is the internal combustion engine, but lately it seems that some automakers are phoning it in when it comes to engine bays. Read more…

These Are The Most Dad-Coded Cars As we pointed out the other day, being a dad really is a state of mind. There’s more to it than simply having a kid. Read more…

Rolling SUVs Down A Cliff Reveals How Safe Modern Cars Are Morbid curiosity drives many folks to YouTube car crash videos, be they professionally and scientifically staged or dashcam footage from far away countries, but this video of two brand-new crossovers getting rolled down a rocky mountain really caught my attention. This video is hardly scientific, but I was still… Read more…

What to Know About Europe’s Extra Tariffs on Chinese Electric Cars The tariffs have been expected for months, but many European automakers warned they will drive up prices for consumers and set off a trade war with China.

Mahindra Roxor, Monster Fire Truck, Slammed Postal Jeep: The Dopest Cars I Found For Sale Online What’s this? An early installment of Dopest? Clearly there must be some mistake, some happy accident behind the scenes that’s blessed you with this bounty of listings earlier in the week than you’d usually get them. Read more…

Americans Are Lonelier Than Ever And Cars Are Part Of The Problem In spite of the country having decided that the Coronavirus pandemic is a thing of the past, the knock-on effects of isolating ourselves have continued unabated. American loneliness is an epidemic in itself, and was already a rising issue before 2020, though was exacerbated by shelter-in-place and the mistrust and… Read more…

Woke Cars, Evil Cars And Cars That Unite Us In This Week’s QOTD Roundup Pickup trucks; the car buying public loves them with some 12.3 million sold in 2023 alone. Some would assume that with all these sales, there can’t be a single pickup model on the market that’s bad. According to our readers though, you’d be wrong though. – Lawrence Hodge Read More Read more…

Woke Cars, Evil Cars And Cars That Unite Us In This Week’s QOTD Roundup Pickup trucks; the car buying public loves them with some 12.3 million sold in 2023 alone. Some would assume that with all these sales, there can’t be a single pickup model on the market that’s bad. According to our readers though, you’d be wrong though. – Lawrence Hodge Read More Read more…

BMW Z3 M, Volkswagen Golf R, Saturn Sky Redline: The Dopest Cars I Found For Sale Online Folks, summer is here. And by “summer,” I of course mean “it is 1,000 degrees, a million percent humidity, and I can’t get home from the office without my clothing devolving into some sort of wet rag that clings to my body in the worst way imaginable.” This is a bad season. Read more…

Are Cars From A Couple Years Ago Really More Desirable Than The Latest New Cars? If you’ve needed to buy a car sometime in the last four years, you understand how rough it’s been out there. Dealers were only stocking the highest trim levels and still adding markup, used car prices were through the roof and availability was limited. Things have been getting better recently, though, with used prices… Read more…

These Are Your Favorite Cars From Obscure Brands Every once in a while a car company will crop up seemingly out of nowhere and deliver a truly unique vehicle that nobody else could have dreamed up. We love it when that happens, even if it’s fairly rare. Earlier this week we asked all of you for your nominations for best car from a brand that never ascended to… Read more…