Image: Girdwood Fire And Rescue Facebook We’ve got another reminder of just how dangerous over the road truck driving can be. This time it comes by way of the freezing temps of Alaska and a driver that’s lucky to be alive. Portal Axle Kit Turns Your Ford Bronco Into a Monster Truck A semi truck … Read more
Photo: NASA/Bill Ingalls The Boeing Starliner’s hatch is closed, and the months-long debacle in low Earth orbit is nearly over. NASA confirmed that the troubled spacecraft will undock from the International Space Station at 6:04 p.m. EDT on Friday. From there, the Starliner will begin an autonomous re-entry with a scheduled landing at White Sands … Read more
Photo: NASA With NASA announcing that astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will return to Earth next March on SpaceX’s Crew-9 mission, the focus quickly shifted to what will happen to the beleaguered Boeing Starliner. The space agency plans to autonomously undock the craft from the International Space Station but fears the Starliner could drift … Read more
Americans have a real issue with restrictions on their roads, whether it’s speed limits that nobody sticks to, height restrictions that all kinds of tall vehicles miss or weight limits that certain bridges can’t sustain. Case in point, a driver in Maine crashed through a historic crossing last month after attempting to drive over in … Read more
Screenshot: CBS New York A drunk dumbass tried to flee the scene of a crash after striking two parked cars and two pedestrians on Saturday and ended up significantly worse off for it. Following a u-turn and a high-speed getaway, the driver ran headlong into the back of a parked Jeep and rolled his van. … Read more
Photo: Andy Kalmowitz / Jalopnik As Pennsylvania police announced double homicide charges against a woman for a fatal March DUI crash, they mentioned she was using some of the driver-assistance functions that can be found in her car, a Ford Mustang Mach-E. State and federal investigators say the woman’s crossover struck a stationary vehicle of … Read more
Image: Joe Skipper (Reuters) The death toll related to faulty Takata-built airbags continues to grow as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration confirms a 28th related fatality. On Tuesday the agency reported yet another air bag inflator death in a saga that has been ongoing since 2009, this one involving a Honda which crashed in … Read more
Tesla’s flagship Cybertruck electric pickup does not like water. The truck has been bricked going into car washes, got stranded on the banks of a small European lake and now a Cybertruck has burst into flames after hitting a fire hydrant that drenched its battery pack. Tesla’s Cybertruck Has Finally Arrived The latest Cybertruck fire … Read more
Boeing’s Starliner mission has been an utter cock up for the aerospace company. Shortly after the craft launched to the International Space Station with two astronauts onboard, issues were found with the craft that mean Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore will now be stuck in space until 2025. Now, it’s emerged that the harsh realities … Read more
Photo: Brandon Bell / Staff (Getty Images) A tire explosion in the maintenance area of Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport killed two early Tuesday morning. WSB-TV reports that the tire exploded while workers were attempting to remove it from the plane. The explosion killed both a Delta employee and a contractor. A third person who is … Read more
