Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Drive With Snow On Your Roof

Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Drive With Snow On Your Roof

A semi truck driver in Kansas caught the horrifying moment a block of frozen snow smashed through their windshield on Thursday. The driver was plowing along Highway 50 near Cedar Point when a huge block of frozen snow flew off the roof of a passenger car and hit the front of their truck, reports Fox … Read more

Customs Agents Seize $1.4 Million In Counterfeit Vehicle Inspection Stickers

Customs Agents Seize .4 Million In Counterfeit Vehicle Inspection Stickers

Photo: Stock (Getty Images) Some car owners are willing to go to extreme lengths to avoid the time and monetary cost of having their vehicles pass an annual state inspection, including buying fake stickers. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized 22,000 counterfeit Pennsylvania vehicle inspection stickers in two recent shipments from Israel. The stickers … Read more

NHTSA Mandates Rear Seat Belt Reminders And Enhanced Warnings For Front Seats

NHTSA Mandates Rear Seat Belt Reminders And Enhanced Warnings For Front Seats

Photo: IIHS I can’t believe I’m writing this in the year 2024, but in case y’all forgot, seat belts save lives. It’s pretty black and white: Over half of all vehicle occupant fatalities in 2022 were people who weren’t wearing a seat belt. It simply boggles my mind whenever I see folks driving or riding … Read more

25 MPH May Be Too Fast For City Centers: Study

25 MPH May Be Too Fast For City Centers: Study

Photo: bodrumsurf (Shutterstock) It’s an intuitive concept that a vehicle’s speed is the decisive factor in determining whether a struck pedestrian is seriously injured or killed. New research from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety shows front-end height compounds the injury risk created by speed. Findings show that a 25-mile-per-hour speed limit may be too … Read more

NHTSA Investigating Fiery Tesla Cybertruck Crash That Killed Three

NHTSA Investigating Fiery Tesla Cybertruck Crash That Killed Three

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is looking into the deadly Tesla Cybertruck crash that happened in Northern California last week. It left three young college students dead and another in critical condition. Right now, the California Highway Patrol is leading the crash investigation. We’ll see how far NHTSA takes it. Tesla’s Cybertruck Has Finally … Read more

Watch Crash Tests Of Maybachs, Range Rovers And Other Luxury Vehicles You’ve Never Seen Smashed Before

Watch Crash Tests Of Maybachs, Range Rovers And Other Luxury Vehicles You’ve Never Seen Smashed Before

The scariest part about driving is arguably the fear of crashing, but a great way to tackle a fear is to learn more about it. Morbid curiosity has led me to YouTube to watch thousands of crash test videos over the years. I believe I have this admittedly strange infatuation because I love cars but … Read more

Tesla Autopilot vs Full Self-Driving: What’s the Difference?

Tesla Autopilot vs Full Self-Driving: What’s the Difference?

It’s no longer the only company with self-driving cars on the road, but Tesla was one of the first brands to make this innovative functionality available to the public. Thanks to an array of cameras, sensors, and AI technology, most Telsa vehicles are capable of driving themselves to some degree. However, this doesn’t mean drivers … Read more

NHTSA Is Investigating “Unintended Vehicle Movement” In Fisker Oceans

NHTSA Is Investigating “Unintended Vehicle Movement” In Fisker Oceans

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

Here’s How IIHS Crash Tests Have Evolved Over Almost 30 Years

Here’s How IIHS Crash Tests Have Evolved Over Almost 30 Years

New ratings for front crash prevention systems – IIHS News The first IIHS tests of automated front crash prevention systems was implemented in 2013, and tested vehicle detection of vehicle-to-vehicle, and front-to-rear crashes. In the early days of this test, ratings were assigned based on tests conducted at 12 and 25 miles per hour, as … Read more

A 4-Inch Taller Hood Makes Your Car 22 Percent More Likely To Kill: Study

A 4-Inch Taller Hood Makes Your Car 22 Percent More Likely To Kill: Study

Vehicles in America are novelty oversized, like a universal TV remote from a store in the weird corner of the mall. We’ve known this for years, and the problem has only kept getting worse. Now, though, new data suggests — once again — that the bigger cars are deadlier. The 2023 Ford F-150 Raptor R … Read more