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Oct 1, 2026
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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Jonathan M. Gitlin

    Can good design stop content creators from having sex in robotaxis? (opens the original)

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    Humans can be a frisky bunch, and it wasn’t very long after Tesla Autopilot started letting drivers go hands-free before people decided to post footage of themselves having sex from the driver’s seat. Recently, The San Francisco Standard interviewed multiple people who claimed to have had sex in robotaxis belonging to General Motors’ now-defunct Cruise. “There’s no one to tell you, ‘You can’t do that.’ It gets to the point where you’re more and more and more comfortable, and if you’re with someo

  2. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Jonathan M. Gitlin

    BMW reveals US 3 series pricing: The EV carries a hefty premium (opens the original)

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    BMW has opened the US order books for its hotly anticipated new 3 Series sedan. Built on an all-new platform called Neue Klasse, it now offers a fully electric version for the first time, using BMW’s advanced sixth-generation electric powertrain we liked so much in the iX3. And for those not quite ready to make the switch from liquid hydrocarbons to pure electron power, there are also a pair of gasoline-powered variants. At launch, the only electric version will be the 2027 BMW i3 50 xDrive. It’

  3. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Jonathan M. Gitlin

    This study looks at how and with whom connected cars share your data (opens the original)

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    In news that should surprise very few, connected cars remain a complete privacy nightmare. But now we have a better idea of what data those cars are giving away, and to whom, thanks to a study conducted by a team of researchers at Northeastern University and Consumer Reports. Testing 21 cars from 19 different brands revealed patterns of traffic to advertisers and trackers, as well as data shared with Big Tech firms like Microsoft and Adobe. And using a car’s companion app can multiply the proble

  4. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Jonathan M. Gitlin

    Trump cuts fuel economy standards back to 2014 levels (opens the original)

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    The federal government’s war on fuel efficiency claimed another victim today. The Department of Transportation released a new rule for the country’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards, which, as expected, discourage the very idea of economical vehicles. Among the changes is a rollback to fuel economy numbers not seen in more than a decade, below even the low standards implemented in 2020, the last time President Trump was in power. The new goal is just 34.9 mpg by model year 2031. This is

  5. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Jonathan M. Gitlin

    F1 in Azerbaijan: That was almost a close-run thing (opens the original)

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    Formula 1 raced on the streets of Baku, Azerbaijan, this past weekend. Although the race predates Liberty’s acquisition of the sport by a few months, it’s a rather good microcosm of the sport as it exists today. The track is a real challenge; it takes place on dusty city streets lined with concrete walls and through a medieval fortress gate, followed by a 1.4-mile (2.2 km) flat-out blast to the finish line, with gusts of wind from the Caspian Sea a block away. It’s interesting to look at Baku’s

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