Photo: California Highway Patrol An elderly man allegedly ignored roads signs leading to a construction site and found himself atop a steep dirt hill in Fresno, California. Before the driver or any construction workers were hurt, the California Highway Patrol claims they managed to intervene and get the older man to safety, lending assistance to … Read more
Alaska Airlines has been having a tough time as of late. Back in October of 2023, an off-duty Alaska pilot tried to shut off a plane’s engines mid-flight while he was on mushrooms, and earlier this month, a door plug ripped from the fuselage of a Boeing 737-Max 9 while the plane was 16,000 feet … Read more
A toddler sitting in the child car seat with the mother helping to buckle and fasten seat beat properly to stay safe while driving.Photo: stock photo/ Globalmoments (Getty Images) According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), it is dangerous to strap a child into their … Read more
Electrify America’s track record with EV charger reliability hasn’t been the greatest — which is to say, its chargers are very bad. They’re so bad that sometimes they’ve even been known to disable some EVs. This unreliability is unacceptable, and some experts in California think state officials should hold Electrify America responsible for its broken … Read more
Screenshot: KSL-TV An oil tanker driver is lucky to be alive after a terrifying crash on U.S. Highway 40 in Wasatch County, Utah last week. Kent Ashton was driving his truck slowly in white-out blizzard conditions when another car slid across the roadway toward him. Ashton left the road attempting to avoid a collision, KSL-TV … Read more
Image: Volkswagen The average American household earned $74,580 in 2022 across all industries, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. The salary gap between women who work at car dealerships and men who work at franchised car dealerships is approximately one average American household, according to new survey data from Automotive News. Men in the industry … Read more
Photo: Smith Collection/Gado (Getty Images) The Department of Homeland Security raided the U.S. subsidiary of a Chinese auto parts manufacturer outside of Dayton, Ohio on January 18, 2023. The agency won’t comment about the nature of the search warrant executed against Harco Manufacturing other than that it was part of a federal investigation, the Dayton … Read more
Image: Breaking Aviation News & Videos on Twitter There’s pretty much just one rule to driving on an airport runway, and it’s “don’t hit shit.” A subset of that rule is the notion that the eighty-ton aircraft pretty much always has the right of way. Early on Monday morning an airport security staffer at Sydney … Read more
Photo: Cars & Bids Subaru may have never sold a supercar, but it did sell a car that’s currently worth as much as some supercars — the legendary Subaru Impreza WRX 22B STI. Created to celebrate Subaru’s rally success, only 400 22Bs were ever built, and none were sold new in America. Now, one is … Read more
Today’s Nice Price or No Dice F-150 sports “NASCAR Official Truck” badging and upholstery. Let’s see if that accreditation makes us want to drop the checkered flag over its price tag. Electric Ford F-150 Lightning Begins Production For a car with over 400 horsepower and a very expressive body kit, it sure took a lot … Read more
