Hurricane Ian showed weaknesses of lithium batteries
Electric vehicles caught fire
Hurricane Ian hit Florida showed a weakness in the batteries of electric cars -- they tend to catch fire.
Toyota left car code exposed for years
User data compromised
Japanese automaker Toyota and its tech subsidiary Toyota Connected have been forced to issue an apology after discovering that a contractor had left source code relating to its T-Connect services publicly exposed on GitHub.
Automatic emergency braking terrible at high speed
American Automobile Association warns tech not there yet
Automatic emergency braking (AEB) is pretty good at preventing low-speed rear-end crashes but kind of sucks when vehicles are traveling at more normal speeds, according to new research from the American Automobile Association (AAA).
Self driving cars are impossible for now
Ignore what Musk tells you
Despite claims from Apple, Elon Musk and some other car makers, fully self driving cars are going to be impossible because robots will need humans for a long time.
US discovers flaw in cunning electric vehicle plan
Apparently, you need a reasonably good power supply
The US might be moving its vehicles to electricity, but it has not resolved the fact that its private enterprise based power grid is pretty third world in parts of the country.