Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg (Getty Images) Tesla has halted production and deliveries of its troubled Cybertruck because of a problem with the electric motor that powers its stupid, big single windshield wiper. Cybertruck Owners Club forum users have posted on the site that deliveries have been pushed back by about a week due to a … Read more
A Tesla in full self-driving mode slammed into a California Highway Patrol cruiser that was already responding to a fatal crash last week. The electric car was running Tesla’s advanced driver assist feature Full Self-Driving when it smashed into the cop car, forcing officers on the scene to jump out of the way of the … Read more
Morbid curiosity drives many folks to YouTube car crash videos, be they professionally and scientifically staged or dashcam footage from far away countries, but this video of two brand-new crossovers getting rolled down a rocky mountain really caught my attention. This video is hardly scientific, but I was still shocked by how well both the … Read more
Photo: NASA NASA confirmed that audio from a simulation channel dedicated to dealing with disaster scenarios was inadvertently broadcast Wednesday on its YouTube channel. The audio indicated that an astronaut was in distress onboard the International Space Station with a tenuous chance of survival, a terrifying scenario for enthusiasts following the feed. NASA accidentely broadcasts … Read more
Photo: Tom Brenner (Reuters) Democratic senator and Carhartt hoodie enthusiast John Fetterman crashed his Chevrolet Traverse into the back of an Impala in Maryland on Sunday morning, landing himself, certified baddie Giselle Fetterman, and the driver of the Impala in the hospital. Nobody was seriously injured, Fetterman was treated for a bruised shoulder and released. … Read more
Did you know that in 2010, power window switch designs were federally governed to minimize strangulations and other injuries caused by unintentional activation of the window switch? Neither did I, but the regulation makes a lot of sense. A small shift in window switch design has drastically reduced the number of strangulations and injuries since … Read more
As electric cars have taught us, car tires are a major source of undesirable noise in a car’s cabin. Honda has an ingenious solution to the issue, hidden resonators that work to cancel out the noise tires make, kind of like noise-cancelling headphones. Tires are like balls in that they are made of rubber and filled with … Read more
Photo: Royal Caribbean Landslide-generated tsunamis don’t come with any warning signs and they’re impossible to predict. Tsunami scientists are meeting with vessel operators in Alaska this month to put together some practical guidelines for captains to use in the case they encounter one of these snap tsunamis. These recommendations will be useful for the hundreds … Read more
Imaging getting off your flight to a scene like this. Screenshot: ABC News via YouTube It’s a scary time to be flying these days; if it’s not deadly turbulence made worse by climate change and parts falling off Boeing planes left, right and center, then it’s massive hailstorms ripping planes to pieces. That’s exactly what … Read more
Two planes nearly collided with each other on a runway at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai after one flight landed while the other one was still rolling down the runway on June 8. In a real shocker, the Air Traffic Control officer responsible has been derostered by officials. Restomodded EMC Mercedes 250GD … Read more
