Author: Tom Krisher
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Dodge muscle cars live on with new versions of the Charger powered by electricity or gasoline
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America’s muscle car culture is adapting to the new world of electric vehicles, but the gasoline-powered high-performance road beasts will be around for at least a few more years
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Ford CEO says company will rethink where it builds vehicles after last year’s autoworkers strike
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Ford’s top executive says that last fall’s contentious United Auto Workers’ strike changed the company’s relationship with the union to the point where it will “think carefully” about where it builds future vehicles
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Mobileye CEO Shashua expects more autonomous vehicles on the road in 2 years as tech moves ahead
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Six years ago, automakers and tech companies thought they were on the cusp of putting thousands of self-driving robotaxis on the street to carry passengers without a human driver
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Elon Musk’s Neuralink moves legal home to Nevada after Delaware judge invalidates his Tesla pay deal
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Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink has moved its legal corporate home from Delaware to Nevada
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US probes Tesla Autopilot, steering wheels that can come off
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DETROIT • U.S. safety regulators are turning up the heat on Tesla, announcing investigations into steering wheels coming off some SUVs and a fatal crash involving a Tesla suspected of using an automated driving system when it ran into a parked firetruck in California. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Wednesday it is launching…
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U.S. urges Canada to use federal powers to end bridge blockade
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TORONTO • The Biden administration urged Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government Thursday to use its federal powers to end the truck blockade by Canadians protesting the country’s COVID-19 restrictions, as the bumper-to-bumper demonstration forced auto plants on both sides of the border to shut down or scale back production. For the fourth straight day, scores…
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‘Somebody’s going to get killed.’ Tesla owners can allegedly play video games while driving
DETROIT (AP) — Last August, Vince Patton was watching a YouTube video of a Tesla owner who had made a startling observation: Tesla drivers could now play a video game on their car’s touch-screen dashboard — while the vehicle is moving. Curious to see for himself, Patton drove his own 2021 Tesla Model 3 to…
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Biden to order a review of U.S. supply chains for vital goods
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WASHINGTON • President Joe Biden is preparing to sign an executive order to review U.S. supply chains for large-capacity batteries, pharmaceuticals, critical minerals and semiconductors that power cars, phones, military equipment and other goods. The United States has become increasingly reliant on imports of these goods — a potential national security and economic risk that…
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NTSB: Tesla Autopilot, distracted driver caused fatal crash
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WASHINGTON • Tesla’s partially automated driving system steered an electric SUV into a concrete barrier on a Silicon Valley freeway because it was operating under conditions it couldn’t handle and because the driver likely was distracted by playing a game on his smartphone, the National Transportation Safety Board has found. The board made the determination…
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Russian pilot safely lands jetliner disabled by bird strike
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MOSCOW • A Russian pilot whose passenger jet lost power in both engines after colliding with a flock of gulls shortly after takeoff Thursday managed to land in a cornfield smoothly enough that only one of the 233 people on board was hurt seriously enough to be hospitalized. The quick thinking of the captain, 41-year…