Brand-New Fire Station Burns Down
By Newser (our emphasis added) Station in Germany didn’t have fire alarm system. A brand-new fire station in Germany that was destroyed in a fire…
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The Deeper Dive: Dystopia Unbound
By David Haggith Applying the words of Tom Wolfe, today’s Deeper Dive is a look at this week’s very strange, electric-Kool-Aid, acid-test news assortment. In…
Inflation sparking a car care revolution as new models become unaffordable
By Study Finds As inflation continues to impact the cost of living, a new survey reveals that Americans are taking proactive steps to maintain their…
Auto Insider Warns More Americans Falling Behind On Car Payments As Repos Soar 23%
By Tyler Durden The delayed day of reckoning has arrived for millions of Americans who purchased vehicles with absurdly high monthly payments they no longer can afford….
Modern Cars Can Be Tracking Nightmares. Abuse Survivors Need Real Solutions.
By Hayley Tsukayama, Eva Galperin, and Catalina Sanchez The amount of data modern cars collect is a serious privacy concern for all of us. But…
GM To Pay $146 Million In Penalties For Emission Violations On 5.9 Million Older Vehicles
By Tyler Durden As if the labor unions weren’t extorting the Detroit auto manufacturers enough, the government is joining in and helping them out. This…
Big Brother on Your Brakes: Intelligent Speed Assist Coming – Video #114
By Makia Freeman Intelligent Speed Assist (ISA) is a technology that measures car speeds and can force the car to slow down – by limiting…
Victory! Grand Jury Finds Sacramento Cops Illegally Shared Driver Data
By Hudson Hongo For the past year, EFF has been sounding the alarm about police in California illegally sharing drivers’ location data with anti-abortion states, putting…
Major Cyber Incident Paralyzes Thousands Of US Auto Dealerships
By Tyler Durden The company supplying software for managing sales and services to thousands of auto dealerships across the US reported yet another cyber disruption…
New ALPR Vulnerabilities Prove Mass Surveillance Is a Public Safety Threat
By Dave Maas and Cooper Quintin Government officials across the U.S. frequently promote the supposed, and often anecdotal, public safety benefits of automated license plate…
California Tests Technocracy By Taxing Drivers For Miles Driven
This Technocratic lunacy has been building for years. I wrote three years ago, “Oregon was the first state to consider a mileage tax that would…
Speed Cameras In Atlanta Improperly Issued $300,000 To $500,000 Worth Of Tickets
By Tyler Durden This is where the future is heading when we leave the police work up to big brother and AI. Innocent drivers in…
Car Makers Shouldn’t Be Selling Our Driving History to Data Brokers and Insurance Companies
By Catalina Sanchez You accelerated multiple times on your way to Yosemite for the weekend. You braked when driving to a doctor appointment. If your…
Combining radio and visual tracking of road vehicles
By Edward Hasbrouck In the latest escalation of surveillance of travelers, data from automated license plate readers (APLRs) is being merged with data from devices…