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In this episode of the Autoblog Podcast, Editor-in-Chief Greg Migliore is joined by Senior Editor Jeremy Korzeniewski. The Tesla Model 3 Performance has been revealed, and we discuss Tesla’s first-quarter results. Mercedes unveiled its G 580 with EQ Technology. A VW factory voted to join the UAW. The Ford Mustang celebrated its 60th anniversary. The Subaru Legacy is being discontinued. Kia previews its Tasman pickup for overseas. Finally, we talk about driving the BMW X2 and our long-term Mazda CX-90 PHEV.
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Screenshot: Drew Gooden/YouTube If you’re looking to learn something new, it’s usually a good idea to go to an expert on the subject. They’ve studied it for years, know the ins and outs and can explain it in a way that you’ll understand. For example, this video from an optical engineer explaining how to see better while driving at night. Entertainment doesn’t always have to be educational, though, and sometimes it’s fun to just sit back and listen to someone say a bunch of things you already know and agree with, like this formerly anti-union Volkswagen employee. It’s cathartic.
The video below is definitely the latter, so if you’re hoping to learn something, this isn’t the video for you. If you’re frustrated with new car trends, though, it’s exactly the kind of thing you’ll enjoy watching. It’s just a regular guy, not an enthusiast, slowly losing his mind over various trends in the auto industry. We’ll also give him a bonus point for being the rare successful YouTuber who owns something other than a Tesla. We probably would have picked something other than a Hyundai Sonata, but you can do a lot worse with your YouTube money.
Considering the video is only 30 minutes long (which is still long, but you can always watch it at 2x speed and cut it down to 15 minutes), it’s impressive how many topics he manages to touch on.
New transmission controls that forego a traditional PRNDL shifter? Check. Increases in distracted driving and road deaths? Check. All the controls being built into touchscreens at the expense of buttons? Check. Retracting door handles that get frozen stuck in the winter? Check. Everyone’s headlights being unnecessarily blinding at night? Check. The arms race to build bigger and bigger cars? Check.
And that’s only in the first 15 minutes. He also includes a clip from Not Just Bikes, clowns on the Cybertruck and then rents one to see if it really is as bad as it sounds. As previously mentioned, you probably already know everything he covers in the video, but if you share his frustrations, who cares? Enjoy Drew slowly going mad over everything so you don’t have to.
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ویدویی از سیل شرکت مدیران خودرو بم؛ در سالن خط تولید خودروی فونیکس fx مشاهده میفرمایید. – تمامی اخبار این باکس توسط پلتفرم پلیکان به صورت خودکار در این سایت قرار گرفته و سایت پارسینه هیچگونه مسئولیتی در خصوص محتوای آن به عهده ندارد
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ما تویوتا تاکوما TRD Pro 2024 را سوار شدیم، رم 1500 RHO 2025 معرفی شد و نیسان فرانتیر 2025 پوشش خود را شکست. این هفته در معکوس است، درست اینجا در Motor Authority.
ما پشت فرمان تویوتا تاکوما TRD Pro 2024 لغزیدیم تا اولین تجربه نسل بعدی پیکاپ آفرود را داشته باشیم. جدیدترین Tacoma TRD Pro برای اولین بار در چیزی که برای همیشه به نظر می رسد جدید است و پیشرانه هیبریدی آن قدرتمندترین در کلاس خود است. اما فاقد پانچ است، شوک‌های آن به پیچیدگی رقبا نیستند، و قیمت آن در بخش لانگ شات بالاترین قیمت است.
مرسدس بنز کلاس G EV مدل 2025 با باتری 116 کیلووات ساعتی، قوای محرکه چهار موتوره و طراحی نمادین رونمایی شد. تعداد کمی از علائم نشان دهنده به صورت بصری تکرار الکتریکی آفرود را از برادران گازسوز آن جدا می کند و جلوپنجره به روز شده اختیاری است.
Ram 1500 RHO 2025 با سیستم تعلیق TRX معرفی شد. موتور Hellcat با نوع پرتوان Hurricane توربوشارژ خطی 6 که 540 اسب بخار قدرت و 521 پوند فوت گشتاور تولید می کند، از بین رفته است. رم گفت که RHO از 0 تا 60 مایل در ساعت در 4.6 ثانیه حرکت می کند، اما RHO به جای هزینه 100000 دلاری، 71990 دلار هزینه خواهد داشت که شامل 1995 دلار هزینه مقصد می شود.
لامبورگینی Urus SE 2025 پلاگین هیبریدی در پکن روی صحنه رفت. شاسی بلند لامبورگینی برقی شده با قدرت 789 اسب بخار وارد بازار می شود و زمانی که سال آینده وارد ایالات متحده شود حدود 258 هزار دلار قیمت دارد.
نیسان فرانتیر 2025 آزمایش خود را در جاده های عمومی آغاز کرد. وانت وانت سایز متوسط به روز شده، نمای جلو و عقب بازبینی شده ای دارد که با استتار پوشیده شده است. انتظار می‌رود در داخل، به‌روزرسانی فناوری با صفحه‌نمایش‌های بزرگ‌تر عرضه شود. اولین بار باید امسال با کامیون به روز شده که اواخر امسال یا اوایل سال آینده به نمایندگی ها می رسد، برگزار شود.
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Photo: Fisker We learned last month that despite Fisker beginning production on its Ocean SUV, the startup automaker lost nearly half a billion dollars last year and desperately needed a bailout. Nissan was reportedly in negotiations to give Fisker $400 million, but that apparently fell through, so it looked like bankruptcy was the only option. Don’t you worry, though, Fisker is totally back, baby! In fact, Business Insider reports that a total of four automakers are currently competing to buy the struggling startup.
Founder Henrik Fisker reportedly shared this information with employees at an all-hands meeting on Thursday. Fisker didn’t name the automakers that are interested, but he did tell the staff, “We still have some time to get other offers on Fisker. We do have four car companies that have signed NDAs. However, they obviously need time to get to some diligence.”
How long it will take for those companies to do their due diligence is unclear, but considering we already know Fisker lost millions of dollars in customer payments, we’re not exactly confident that it has its books in order. If this is actually going to happen, there’s a good chance it’s going to take a while.
Apparently, there’s already been an offer, which Fisker reportedly rejected because they didn’t show up at the table with enough money. If there’s plenty of interest from other automakers, we kind of understand holding out for more, but at the same time, Fisker reportedly told staff earlier in the week that it could file for bankruptcy in the next 30 days if it didn’t find more cash. As of April 16, the company’s filings claimed it only had $54 million on hand and “believes that its available liquidity will not be sufficient to meet its current obligations.”
So maybe taking the low offer would have been the smart thing to do, but hopefully, for the sake of the employees, one of the four companies that is currently in negotiations with Fisker will make a better offer and then fix everything that’s wrong with the Ocean.
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WASHINGTON — U.S. auto safety regulators said Friday they have opened an investigation into whether Tesla’s recall of more than 2 million vehicles announced in December to install new Autopilot safeguards is adequate.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said it was opening an investigation after the agency identified concerns due to crash events after vehicles had the recall software update installed “and results from preliminary NHTSA tests of remedied vehicles.”
The agency’s new probe comes after it closed its nearly three-year investigation into Autopilot, saying it found evidence that “Tesla’s weak driver engagement system was not appropriate for Autopilot’s permissive operating capabilities” that result in a “critical safety gap.”
NHTSA also cited Tesla’s statement “that a portion of the remedy both requires the owner to opt in and allows a driver to readily reverse it.”
The agency said Tesla has issued software updates to address issues that appear related to its concerns but has not made them “a part of the recall or otherwise determined to remedy a defect that poses an unreasonable safety risk.”
Tesla said in December’s its largest-ever recall covering 2.03 million U.S. vehicles — or nearly all of its vehicles on U.S. roads — was to better ensure drivers pay attention when using its advanced driver assistance system.
The new recall investigation covers Model Y, X, S, 3 and Cybertruck vehicles in the U.S. equipped with Autopilot produced between the 2012 and 2024 model years, NHTSA said.
Tesla said in December Autopilot’s software system controls “may not be sufficient to prevent driver misuse” and could increase the risk of a crash.
The auto safety agency disclosed Friday that during its Autopilot safety probe it first launched in August 2021 it identified at least 13 Tesla crashes involving one or more death and many more involving serious injuries in which “foreseeable driver misuse of the system played an apparent role.”
NHTSA also on Friday raised concerns about Tesla’s Autopilot name “may lead drivers to believe that the automation has greater capabilities than it does and invite drivers to overly trust the automation.”
Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In February, Consumer Reports, a nonprofit organization that evaluates products and services, said its testing of Tesla’s Autopilot recall update found changes did not adequately address many safety concerns raised by NHTSA and urged the agency to require the automaker to take “stronger steps,” saying Tesla’s recall “addresses minor inconveniences rather than fixing the real problems.”
Tesla’s Autopilot is intended to enable cars to steer, accelerate and brake automatically within their lane, while enhanced Autopilot can assist in changing lanes on highways but does not make vehicles autonomous.
One component of Autopilot is Autosteer, which maintains a set speed or following distance and works to keep a vehicle in its driving lane.
Tesla said in December it did not agree with NHTSA’s analysis but would deploy an over-the-air software update that will “incorporate additional controls and alerts to those already existing on affected vehicles to further encourage the driver to adhere to their continuous driving responsibility whenever Autosteer is engaged.”
NHTSA’s then top official, Ann Carlson, said in December the agency probe determined that more needed to be done to ensure drivers are engaged when Autopilot is in use. “One of the things we determined is that drivers are not always paying attention when that system is on,” Carlson said.
NHTSA opened its August 2021 probe of Autopilot after identifying more than a dozen crashes in which Tesla vehicles hit stationary emergency vehicles.
NHTSA said in December it found Autopilot “can provide inadequate driver engagement and usage controls that can lead to foreseeable misuse.”
Separately, since 2016, NHTSA has opened more than 40 Tesla special crash investigations in cases where driver systems such as Autopilot were suspected of being used, with 23 crash deaths reported to date.
Tesla’s recall includes increasing prominence of visual alerts and disengaging of Autosteer if drivers do not respond to inattentiveness warnings and additional checks upon engaging Autosteer. Tesla said it will restrict Autopilot use for one week if significant improper usage is detected.
Tesla disclosed in October the U.S. Justice Department issued subpoenas related to its Full Self-Driving (FSD) and Autopilot. Reuters reported in October 2022 that Tesla was under criminal investigation.
Tesla in February 2023 recalled 362,000 U.S. vehicles to update its FSD Beta software after NHTSA said the vehicles did not adequately adhere to traffic safety laws and could cause crashes.
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تصویر: ایندی کار آمریکا سری چرخ باز برتر پیشنهاد یک تیم برای اجرای یک مفصل عجیب را رد کرده است رابرت اف کندی جونیور و جنجال دونالد جی ترامپ برای بزرگترین مسابقه در تقویم ماه آینده، با توجه به گزارش از مسابقه دهنده. اگر در زیر سنگ زندگی می کنید، سال 2024 یک سال انتخابات است و سریال تصمیم گرفته است به طور کلی از رقابت فاصله بگیرد. ایندیاناپولیس 500 سریال است رویداد نوار آبی، هر سال حدود 300000 طرفدار جذب می کند و اگر مجاز باشد ممکن است دیده شده باشد مانند تایید ضمنی نامزدهای مورد نظر.
سخنگوی ایندی کار گفت: «ایندی کار حمایت های مالی مرتبط با مقامات منتخب، نامزدهای مناصب سیاسی یا کمیته های اقدام سیاسی را تأیید نمی کند. مسابقه دهنده.
این سریال نگفت که کدام تیم یا راننده درخواست RFK/Trump liry را کرده است، اگرچه واقعاً فقط یک مرد در این زمینه وجود دارد که با این شرایط مطابقت دارد. سانتينو فروچي، بچه پولدار، سانتينو فروچي، قبلاً چنين چيزي را امتحان كرده است بازی “Make America Great Again” را در فرمول 2 اجرا کنید قبل از او به خاطر خراب کردن عمدی هم تیمی خود از سریال اخراج شد. مسابقه 25 ساله برای تیم افسانه ای AJ Foyt Racingسال گذشته در رتبه 500 قرار گرفت. او دقیقاً از آن دسته افرادی است که از RFK، جونیور و رئیس جمهور سابق، دونالد ترامپ که از نظر قانونی درگیر شده، حمایت می کند.
مسابقه 26 مه صد و هشتمین مسابقه در این رویداد است و به طور مداوم بالاترین رویداد یک روزه در ورزش است. IndyCar هوشمندانه است تا خود را از سیاست و به ویژه از این مسابقه 2024 دور نگه دارد. مهم نیست چه اتفاقی می افتد، این یک نبرد بازنده برای سریال خواهد بود. اگر می خواهد به رشد طرفداران خود ادامه دهد، باید از انجام هر کاری که ممکن است بیش از نیمی از شهروندان کشوری را که در آن مستقر است بیگانه کند، اجتناب کند.
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یک بنتلی جدید ساخته شده توسط واگن با موتور W-12 در 7 می عرضه خواهد شد.
مدل جدید ناشناس دنباله‌ای از نسخه محدود Bacalar speedster و Batur کوپه خواهد بود و مانند آن خودروها توسط بخش شخصی‌سازی مولینر بنتلی ساخته خواهد شد. تولید تنها به 16 نمونه محدود خواهد شد، در مقایسه با تولید 12 واحدی Bacalar و 18 واحدی Batur.
مدل جدید ساخته شده توسط اتوبوس در میان آخرین خودروهای تولیدی بنتلی با موتور 6.0 لیتری توئین توربو W-12 این خودروساز خواهد بود که در سال جاری از بازار خارج می شود. سال گذشته، بنتلی نسخه‌های Speed Edition 12 Bentayga، Flying Spur، و Continental GT کوپه و کانورتیبل را به یاد چیزی که موتور امضای این خودروساز برای عصر مدرن بوده، معرفی کرد.
تیزر بنتلی جدید ساخته شده توسط مربی که در 7 می 2024 عرضه می شود
بنتلی قبلاً گفته بود که باتور قوی‌ترین نسخه این موتور را دریافت می‌کند، بنابراین شاید بنتلی جدید ساخته شده توسط مربی با 730 اسب بخار قدرت و 740 پوند فوت گشتاور کوپه مطابقت نداشته باشد. خروجی می تواند به 650 اسب بخار مدل Speed Edition 12 نزدیک تر باشد.
بنتلی W-12 را در سال 2003 با نسل اول Continental GT معرفی کرد. تا زمانی که تولید در سال جاری به پایان برسد، این خودروساز تخمین می زند که بیش از 105000 نمونه ساخته شده باشد. بنتلی نگفته است که چه پیشرانه ای جایگزین W-12 خواهد شد، اما شایعات حول محور یک سیستم هیبریدی پلاگین با یک توربوشارژ V-8 است.
برنامه این است که در نهایت حتی خودروهای برقی هیبریدی را جایگزین کند، اگرچه بنتلی اخیراً هدف قبلی را برای تحقق آن تا پایان دهه به تعویق انداخت. اکنون قصد دارد اولین خودروی برقی خود را در سال 2026 معرفی کند. با توجه به واکنش مثبت به Bacalar و Batur که به سرعت فروخته شدند، بنتلی‌های ساخت اتوبوس می‌توانند در دوران EV نیز ادامه دهند.
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Image: NASA There are some anniversaries that are worth celebrating, and the “platinum anniversary” of a Martian dick is definitely one of them. Way back in 2004, when I was still a high-school junior, the scientists at NASA in charge of the Spirit rover were doing pretty much the same thing I was; scribblin’ dicks on shit. My art was on the walls of the boy’s locker room at Gull Lake High School, but these space geniuses were crudely shuffling a phallus into the surface of a planet 186 million miles away. One small step for man, one giant dick for mankind.
NASA scientists, according to Futurism, claim this is a “standard rover turning maneuver” and have done similar drawings with the tracks of the earlier Opportunity and later Curiosity rovers as well. So Mars actually has three dicks! It’s a regular sausage fest on the fourth planet from the sun, eh?
Personally I think the NASA engineers are just covering up for their own juvenile programming. Yeah, of course the space robots turn around in a way that draws a the family jewels. That’s absolutely normal and expected. And I’m sure they also have standard programmatic maneuvers that spell out “Wash Me.” That’s totally believable.
Back in 2013, when the images were first released, NBC News had this to say as a way of explaining the frank and beans:
All those rovers have six wheels, three on each side, and they leave behind two parallel tracks when they’re traveling in a straight line. When the rover has to make a turn, the wheels rotate in place to put the robot in the desired direction for the next leg of its trek. If the turn is significant enough, you get a nice set of circles at the end of a pair of parallel tracks.
I, for one, appreciate that these NASA employees are having fun with their work. Sure these rovers need to turn in one way or another, and a dick is just as easy as any other shape to articulate, so why not?