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Cruise and Waymo Robotaxis Can Now Work the Streets of San Francisco 24/7

California today cleared all-day paid robotaxi service in San Francisco—with unlimited fleets of self-driving cars. Soon, anyone in the city might be able to hail a driverless car with a few taps...

Automakers Say They Resolved the Right-to-Repair Fight. Critics Aren’t Ready to Make Peace

Who owns the data generated by your car? And who controls access to it?For almost a decade, right-to-repair activists, automakers, parts manufacturers, auto repair shop owners, technicians, and regular people who own...

A Fight Over the Right to Repair Cars Takes a Wild Turn

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has become the unlikely vanguard of the movement to give car owners the right to repair their own vehicles. Now the US federal government is threatening to get...

Tesla’s Supercharger Strategy Starts a Winning Streak

Electric vehicles are more abundant than ever. Charging your shiny new EV at a public station? That could hardly get worse.Since 2021, automotive research firm J.D. Power has regularly polled electric car owners...

California Truckers Brace for a Rule Mandating Electric Vehicles at Ports

If you live in the US, the stuff you buy—that new dining room table, bag of rice, or pair of pants heading to your home right now—may experience the all-electric future of...

Ford Jump Starts Its Attempt to Revive Detroit

For almost two decades after it opened in 1913, Michigan’s Central Station was a major stop on the nation’s interurban rail network. Then the private car took over the US, and Detroit declined....

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