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Air travel has entered an especially fraught place in the public consciousness lately, mostly due to a recent spate of incidents in which Boeing planes have caught fire, lost a wheel during takeoff, or sprung a hole mid-flight. These high-profile mishaps have given flying a bad name and made countless passengers ponder which seats on a plane are safest and which are the most dangerous.
The latest electric vehicle duo won’t be joining the Toyota bZ4X SUV – launched with its Subaru Solterra twin in early 2024 – in Australian showrooms as the Japanese car maker focuses on the EV battle in China.
A federal report published today found that Tesla’s Autopilot system was involved in at least 13 fatal crashes in which drivers misused the system in ways the automaker should have foreseen—and done more to prevent. Not only that, but the report called out Tesla as an “industry outlier” because its driver assistance features lacked some of the basic precautions taken by its competitors. Now regulators are questioning whether a Tesla Autopilot update designed to fix these basic design issues and prevent fatal incidents has gone far enough.
The Cadillac Lyriq is one of the first vehicles to use GM’s Ultium platform. This drivetrain system now underpins all of its current and upcoming electric vehicles, other than the outgoing Chevy Bolt EV. After driving the Lyriq and liking it very much, I was interested in the precise details of the car’s pack and the larger Ultium system. So I interviewed Jerry Beemer, who leads GM’s EV Propulsion team. If you want to know everything about this system down to the individual cells, he’s your guy.
Despite increased competition in the space, the Tesla Model Y is still one of the best EVs out there. It has access to the best charging network, plus it offers among the best software experiences, as well as a solid range, especially in the longer-range models. And the Model Y is now down to its lowest price yet, meaning that if you were considering getting one, now is probably the time to buy.
The Chevrolet Corvette will once again sport the lively paint finish it was made to wear with the return of Competition Yellow for the upcoming model year. The Corvette Stingray, Z06, and E-Ray will get a number of updates heading into 2025, but chief among them is the addition of familiar outer finishes, including Sebring Orange and Comp Yellow, the all-time best Corvette color. Hysteria Purple—which looks to be more like blue—is also joining the fray for the first time.
The Beijing motor show has returned for the first time since 2018, bringing a whole host of exciting unveilings from some of the world's most renowned names — plus some radical challengers you might never have heard of before.
As the crow flies, I went to college only about 60 miles from where I grew up; by car it was 100 miles almost on the dot. In good traffic, it was a breezy two-hour drive, but I more frequently measured it in album running time. A filled-to-the-brim compact disc of the day boasted 74 minutes of uncompressed audio. I know, I know; Americans will do anything to avoid using the metric system. But I'd wager that if you were any kind of frequent commuter back in the days of physical media, you could probably time a frequent route down to the individual track that would play as you reached your destination. If I left my college apartment to the opening bars of «One Headlight» from the Wallflowers' «Bringing Down the Horse,» I knew I'd hear the clickity-click of the disc changer about 45 minutes from home.