Happy Wednesday! It’s August 14, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Walter Isaacson On Elon Musk(s) 1st Gear: Texas Sues GM Over Data Sales General Motors collected and sold the … Read more
Good morning! It’s Friday, May 31, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Ultra Cruise is GM’s Answer to Tesla’s So-Called ‘Full Self-Driving’ 1st Gear: GM And Ford Don’t See Eye-To-Eye … Read more
Good morning! It’s Friday, March 22, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. New York Joins California, Banning Non-Electric Vehicles After 2035 1st Gear: Plug-In Hybrids Are Outpacing EV Sales Electric … Read more
Photo: Fisker Much like a real-life sea, the Fisker Ocean’s start has been rocky. The crossover released to multiple failed flip attempts, only to be beset by issues around little things like “moving the car.” Now, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating issues around the Ocean’s ability to not move. According to Bob: … Read more
The prevalence of collisions caused by distracted driving has increased at an alarming rate, leading traffic fatalities to spike in the last few years. NHTSA says that traffic deaths reached a 16-year high of nearly 43,000 in 2021 (the most recent year detailed data is available) but less than one percent were linked to cell … Read more
When the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill passed in late 2021, it got a lot of attention for funding electric vehicle charging, high-speed rail, bridge maintenance and a lot of other basic infrastructure needs. What didn’t get much attention was a provision requiring the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to update seat strength requirements in cars. NHTSA … Read more
Photo: Spencer Platt (Getty Images) Tesla is recalling 120,000 U.S.-based Model S and X vehicles from 2021 to 2023. This has nothing to do with last week’s massive two-million vehicle recall over Autopilot. This time, it’s that the doors of the cars in question could pop open in crashes if the locks aren’t activated, NHTSA … Read more
Chevrolet Cruise autonomous vehicles sit parked in a lot on June 8, 2023, in San Francisco. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Cruise had an expensive but fairly successful operation going in San Francisco until October, when the General Motors-owned startup lost its state permits to run its driverless vehicles as paid taxis and to test them without human … Read more
FILE: A view of Berkeley and north Oakland. Sundry Photography/Getty Images/iStockphoto Last year, Berkeley tentatively approved banning making right turns on red lights. But more than 12 months later, little progress has been made toward prohibiting the controversial maneuver. In November 2022, Berkeley Councilmembers Terry Taplin and Susan Wengraf proposed banning rights on red via a … Read more
Good morning! It’s Monday, November 20, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. I Need A Project Car For A Tall Dude | WCSYB? 1st Gear: Cruise Boss Quits While facing … Read more