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Ferrari’s Luce Sales Pitch Backfires When Brutal Collector Response Goes Viral
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (534+ words) Ferrari‘s outreach campaign for the Luce – its first fully electric production car, priced from around $640,000 – hit a wall when one of the collector recipients decided to publish his reply. The recipient, hypercar collector Jeffrey Cheng – known on Instagram as…...
Atlanta's New Bike Barriers Are Flipping Cars and Sparking Debate
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (509+ words) If you drive down Cherokee Avenue in Atlanta’s Grant Park neighborhood and see a car precariously balanced on two wheels atop a concrete divider, don’t adjust your glasses. Over the past few weeks, a newly installed protected bike lane has…...
This Inflatable Michelin Man Was Stolen, Taken on a Joyride, and Put Back Like Nothing Happened
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (207+ words) A group of friends apparently decided that Bibendum deserved a night off, and the whole thing was caught on security camera. This is not the first recorded theft of a Michelin Man figure. There was a prior incident in which…...
NHTSA Cracks Down on Autonomous Vehicles Blocking First Responders
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (386+ words) While a robotaxi getting confused at a four-way stop is a frustrating inconvenience for local commuters, an autonomous vehicle actively blocking a fire truck is a life-threatening disaster. After months of mounting incidents, the federal government is finally stepping in…...
This is What Happens When AI Designs and 3D Prints An RC Plane
1+ week, 2+ day ago (386+ words) The question driving the Neuronautics NX2 project was deceptively simple: could artificial intelligence produce a flying wing so aerodynamically refined that it could cover 200 kilometers on a single charge? After months of simulation, testing, crashing, and rebuilding, the answer turned out…...
He Turned a Simple Paper Plane into a High-Flying RC Drone
2+ week, 2+ day ago (407+ words) The childhood fantasy of a paper aeroplane that actually goes somewhere useful has been around as long as boring classroom windows. A YouTube creator who goes by PENGUIN has done something about it – building a fully remote-controlled, Wi-Fi-operated paper plane…...
He Turned Two Disposable Lighters Into Working Jet Engines for This Tiny Plane
2+ week, 2+ day ago (287+ words) The A-10 Thunderbolt II has been terrorizing ground targets since the 1970s and surviving retirement proposals for almost as long. Known officially as the A-10 Thunderbolt II, the aircraft has earned the nickname “Warthog” from virtually everyone who encounters it – a reference, as…...
Hypercar Collector Publicly Shuts Down Ferrari's Luce Sales Pitch: "I Wouldn't Be Caught Dead In This Thing!"
2+ week, 5+ day ago (614+ words) A Ferrari salesman pitched the Luce EV to a hypercar collector but received an unexpected response, with the collector saying he “wouldn’t be caught dead in this thing.” The Luce, Ferrari’s first all-electric car, was unveiled on May 25, triggering a…...
The War Over the Gas Car Ban Just Went Nuclear: The Golden State vs. Washington
3+ week, 21+ hour ago (571+ words) Just when automakers thought they could finally take a breath and finalize their long-term production portfolios, the regulatory whiplash has struck again. The bitter, seemingly never-ending legal feud between California and the federal government over the future of the internal…...
Slate's Minimalistic $25K EV Truck That Doesn't Even Have a Radio Received Over 180,000 Orders
3+ week, 1+ day ago (416+ words) Slate, a Michigan-based automaker backed by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, has offered a modular ‘blank slate’ electric vehicle without electric windows, a radio, or infotainment screens, priced at under $25,000. Considering that the company has already received over 160,000 bookings, are people craving…...