Filed under: Government/Legal,Green,Fuel Efficiency
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is expected to use a Virginia car dealership on Tuesday as the setting to tout its rejection of the Obama administration's landmark vehicle fuel efficiency rules, a move that could put automakers in the middle of a battle between the Trump administration and California. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt plans to sign a declaration by Sunday that the Obama administration's vehicle efficiency rules for 2022 through 2025 are "not appropriate" and must be revise
Continue reading EPA to reject Obama fuel efficiency standards early next week
EPA to reject Obama fuel efficiency standards early next week originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 31 Mar 2018 19:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The Easter Jeep Safari began as a play for tourism: in 1967 the Moab Chamber of Commerce invited "the Jeeping community" to ride a single trail on the Saturday before Easter. The attendees were mostly members and friends of the Chamber of Commerce. Now, 52 years later, the nine-day Safari takes place on more than 40 trails and lures thousands of Jeepers, who put on one of the biggest and best modified Jeep shows in the world.
Continue reading We test the latest Easter Jeep Safari off roaders in Moab
We test the latest Easter Jeep Safari off roaders in Moab originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 31 Mar 2018 11:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tesla said on Friday that a Tesla Model X involved a fatal crash in California last week had activated its Autopilot system, raising new questions about the semi-autonomous system that handles some driving tasks. Tesla also said vehicle logs from the accident showed no action had been taken by the driver soon before the crash and that he had received earlier warnings to put his hands on the wheel.
Continue reading Tesla says Model X involved in fatal crash was on Autopilot
Tesla says Model X involved in fatal crash was on Autopilot originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 31 Mar 2018 02:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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We've all seen examples of drivers who don't square their turns, instead making left turns that are too tight and cut well into the oncoming driving lanes, making you glad there's nobody approaching to make their own left turns.
Continue reading Terrifying video shows cyclist’s view of head-on collision
Terrifying video shows cyclist’s view of head-on collision originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 30 Mar 2018 16:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Volkswagen has taken parking lots to a whole new level in the United States and will not be emptying them soon. Volkswagen AG has paid more than $7.4 billion to buy back about 350,000 U.S. diesel vehicles through mid-February, a recent court filing shows. The German automaker has been storing hundreds of thousands of vehicles around the United States for months.
Continue reading VW storing around 300,000 diesels at 37 facilities around U.S.
VW storing around 300,000 diesels at 37 facilities around U.S. originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 30 Mar 2018 15:50:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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In a world full of SUVs and crossovers all competing for similar buyers in similar segments, there are still some models that find their own little niches that lack such fevered fighting. The Jeep Grand Cherokee is one of those vehicles. It's an oddball in the sense that it's a midsize crossover SUV with a unibody chassis and independent suspension, but it still uses rear-wheel-drive and four-wheel-drive systems and has some off-road capability. It's also a midsize crossover, but only offers two
Continue reading 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee vs. Midsize crossovers and SUVs: How they compare on paper
2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee vs. Midsize crossovers and SUVs: How they compare on paper originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 30 Mar 2018 14:50:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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We saw a junkified Ford P71 Crown Victoria Police Interceptor in Colorado last month, so it's only fair that we take a look at the P71's only serious rear-wheel-drive competition during the 1990s: the Chevrolet 9C1 Caprice Classic. Here's a final-year-of-production ex-police Caprice, spotted in an Arizona self-service wrecking yard.
Continue reading Junkyard Gem: 1996 Chevrolet Caprice Classic 9C1 Police Car
Junkyard Gem: 1996 Chevrolet Caprice Classic 9C1 Police Car originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 30 Mar 2018 14:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The knowledge that smoothly riding that wave into third gear and beyond is going to require skill, timing and a degree of expertise beyond a fingertip on a paddle is the reward I want from a car such as the GT3.
Continue reading A letter to America: Thanks for saving the manual sports car
A letter to America: Thanks for saving the manual sports car originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 30 Mar 2018 13:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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We all love fast wagons. Their combination of practicality and performance scratches an itch for most of us here at Autoblog. What other vehicle on the market can carry a family of four along with all their luggage and still hit 60 mph in fewer than four seconds and a top speed close to 200 mph? These are supercars wrapped in a family-friendly package.
Continue reading 2018 Porsche Panamera Turbo Sport Turismo Drivers' Notes | Wagon week
2018 Porsche Panamera Turbo Sport Turismo Drivers' Notes | Wagon week originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 30 Mar 2018 12:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Lincoln's foray into the world of monthly subscriptions will follow the mold of Ford's Canvas program and launch a pilot service offering a range of pre-owned 2017 Lincoln vehicles in West Los Angeles and the San Francisco area.
Continue reading Lincoln plans pilot subscription service for pre-owned vehicles
Lincoln plans pilot subscription service for pre-owned vehicles originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 30 Mar 2018 12:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Workhorse Group has experience electrifying trucks. It has been providing hybrid delivery vehicles to the likes of UPS, has introduced a range-extended electric work pickup, and is in the running to supply the powertrain for the next U.S. Postal Service mail truck. Now, the company has launched an electric delivery van called the N-Gen, which offers an optional range extender and delivery drone.
Continue reading Workhorse introduces N-Gen electric delivery truck
Workhorse introduces N-Gen electric delivery truck originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 30 Mar 2018 12:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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"My job is to make them drive like they look," Matt Becker, Aston Martin's vehicle attributes engineer, tells me. The engine is idling, and we're harnessed inside of the 2019 Vantage test mule's racing bucket seats, somewhere on a frozen lake near the Arctic Circle in Sweden. Since the Vantage is Aston's best seller, and it's representative of the things the brand stands for, it's safe to say this chilly prototype is the most important Aston Martin on the planet right now.
Continue reading 2019 Aston Martin Vantage ridealong: Going to the extremes
2019 Aston Martin Vantage ridealong: Going to the extremes originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 30 Mar 2018 11:50:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Now here's a genuine novelty: In San Francisco, a motorcycle cop pulled over an autonomous vehicle and issued it a ticket. The future has arrived.
Continue reading Motorcycle cop tickets a self-driving car in San Francisco
Motorcycle cop tickets a self-driving car in San Francisco originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 30 Mar 2018 10:25:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The United Auto Workers added new members for the ninth consecutive year in 2017 and the union remained in the black, but overall dues fell versus the previous year, according to the union's annual filing with the U.S. Department of Labor on Thursday.
Continue reading UAW added members in 2017, but union dues fell
UAW added members in 2017, but union dues fell originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 30 Mar 2018 09:50:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Continue reading Ford CEO Jim Hackett gets $16M as he tries to turn things around
Ford CEO Jim Hackett gets $16M as he tries to turn things around originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 30 Mar 2018 09:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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When it was first introduced in 2007, there was nothing like the original Ford Sync system, since it allowed car owners to connect and use a portable device better than anything that came before it. It took competitors awhile to catch up. But now Ford is the one playing catchup.
Continue reading Would you pay $17 a month to give your older Ford connectivity?
Would you pay $17 a month to give your older Ford connectivity? originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 30 Mar 2018 09:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tesla shares rose on Thursday ahead of the expected release next week of the company's quarterly auto production data, while a senior executive urged workers at the automaker to hit a weekly production target of 2,500 Model 3 sedans by the end of March.
Continue reading Tesla stock recovers a bit as company pushes to hit Model 3 target
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Tesla Inc said on Thursday it was voluntarily recalling Model S sedans built before April 2016 in order to replace bolts in the power steering component.
Continue reading Tesla voluntarily recalls early Model S cars over power steering bolts
Tesla voluntarily recalls early Model S cars over power steering bolts originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 30 Mar 2018 08:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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You might have heard: A lawsuit filed in Delaware earlier this month claimed Alden Global Capital was siphoning millions of dollars from Digital First Media, and investing the money in “speculative ventures” (DFM Workers)
But did you know: In a court filing, Alden Global Capital discloses using millions of dollars from Digital First Media in its other investments (DFM Workers)
In court filings last week, Alden Global Capital denies many of the allegations made against it, but does disclose that it used cash from the Digital First Media newspaper chain for Alden-managed investments. Julie Reynolds writes, for a critical site run by the company’s labor union, that this was happening at the same time that thousands of workers were being laid off from DFM. In the filings, Alden says $10 million was invested in December 2014 in Alden Global CRE Opportunities Master Fund LP, which Reynolds says later invested $80 million in Homex, “a bankrupt developer charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with committing the biggest real estate fraud in Mexican history.” The filings also say DFM has invested $248.5 million of workers’ pension funds in Alden-controlled affiliates as of June 2016.
+ CJR profiles Julie Reynolds, a freelance reporter in the Monterey Bay area and a Center for Investigative Reporting alum who’s covering Alden and DFM for a site run by Guild-represented employees of DFM (CJR)
+ Noted: Facebook outlines steps to protect elections, including removing fake accounts, increasing transparency around ads and reducing the spread of false news (Facebook Newsroom); Facebook also starts allowing fact-checking partners to review photos and videos, and flag stories before being prompted (TechCrunch); Conservative publishers say Facebook’s algorithm change unfairly targeted their traffic, but traffic declines could be attributed to readers labeling the outlets as untrustworthy (Politico); The Dallas Morning News will feature more sponsored content “paid for by companies to focus on corporate social responsibility” (Dallas Morning News); WSJ employees say a senior editor tried to pull a story on economic recovery in the U.S. that was “not politically palatable” (Huffington Post)
The week in fact-checking
As part of our fact-checking journalism project, Jane Elizabeth and Poynter’s Alexios Mantzarlis and Daniel Funke highlight stories worth noting related to truth in politics and on the Internet. This week’s round-up includes fact-checking that focuses on issues rather than statements, how to celebrate International Fact-Checking Day, and why “fake news” may get more sinister.
Lessons from 2 years of The Guardian’s Mobile Innovation Lab: Think about how your innovation projects fit into readers’ lives (Nieman Lab)
Two years after its launch, The Guardian’s Mobile Innovation Lab is winding down, and shared the lessons it learned at an event on Monday. The Mobile Innovation Lab was funded by a $2.6 million grant from the Knight Foundation. Here are some of the things they talked about on Monday: What does “innovation” mean in a newsroom on a practical level? What should the relationship between journalists and developers look like? And, what makes up an effective experiment?
+ A framework from El Tímpano for how to ask your community what information they want and need (Madeleine Bair, Medium)
Product-centric thinking may stave off innovation, rather than encourage it (BBC News Labs)
At BBC News Labs’s Media Innovation Unconference, organizers encouraged participants to think about the challenges facing legacy news outlets, and how innovators can optimize their processes to provide the most value to their newsrooms. Here, BBC News Labs shares three major takeaways from the event. One of those ideas is that product-centric thinking may actually be a barrier to innovation: “Because a good product is stripped of functionality that isn’t essential to achieving its end goal, elements that might be useful in future experiments are often shaved away early in the process. … Because you’ve eliminated that capability from the scope of the initial product, you’ve set back future experiments.”
Slack will soon be able to tell you whether you speak to men and women differently (Quartz)
After Quartz published a story late last year on how men and women use Slack differently, Slack has started to think about the gender dynamics in its product. One product it’s creating around this is analytics on how people interact with different demographics — for example, do you speak to women or people of color differently? “These are analytics that no one else has access to you except for you,” Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield explains. “And they don’t present you with any real moral value either way, but [they answer questions like], do you talk to men differently than you talk to women? Do you speak to support groups differently than you speak to superiors? Do you speak in public differently than you speak in private?”
Covering criticism of Google and Facebook is personal for journalists, because many blame the platforms for the industry’s problems (Axios)
“Outrage over Facebook’s misuse of user data and failure to rein in election fraud is real,” Scott Rosenberg writes. “But the zeal that media outlets bring to their Facebook coverage is personal, too. It’s turbocharged because journalists, individually and collectively, blame Facebook — along with other tech giants, like Google, and the internet itself — for seducing their readers, impoverishing their employers, and killing off their jobs. … Media companies stand to gain now from a public and regulatory backlash against social media that knocks Facebook and Google down a peg or two.”
+ “[Facebook tries] to use as much free material as possible to get people to stay on their platform,” Kara Swisher says. “They don’t care what does that. They pretend to care. They give speeches, and go to media organizations and sell that vision.” (Digiday)
Chrome’s mobile article recommendations are turning into a major traffic driver for publishers — but publishers don’t know why their articles get chosen (Nieman Lab)
Article recommendations in Chrome’s mobile browser are emerging as a major referral source for publishers, data from Chartbeat suggests. Chartbeat’s data shows that the recommendations are one of the fastest growing sources of publisher traffic on the Internet: “Articles for You” grew 2,100 percent in 2017, going from 15 million visits per month to 341 million visits per month. But publishers are unsure why their stories do or do not get chosen as recommendations: There’s a preference for AMP stories, but Google has revealed little info on how a user’s browsing habits and other factors play into the recommendations.
+ Is journalism a form of activism? Danielle Tcholakian takes a look at the definition of “activism,” and how journalism fits into that: “If you’re a female journalist and you’re reporting on Roe v. Wade or abortion access, that is something that affects you personally. You don’t have ‘the view from nowhere.’ The privilege of the view from nowhere was set up by white men,” CJR’s Karen Ho says. “[But] if I’m going to make an argument, I’m always going to back it up with studies.” (Longreads)
+ “People like me generally do not make it that far in journalism, because it’s not very well-paid, generally speaking, and it’s not something we always have access to; it almost seems like a luxury to be able to write and tell stories for a living,” says Tanzina Vega, the new host of WNYC’s The Takeaway. “I think we as newsrooms have to examine who we’re hiring, why we’re hiring, why we’re not opening the doors to people who don’t go to Ivy League schools as much as we are to people who do.” (CJR)
+ Trump seems obsessed with crushing Amazon — but Jonathan Chait argues that this obsession is more about wanting to crush The Washington Post (Daily Intelligencer)
+ Attacks against the Parkland high school students from the right show how intense media polarization is becoming, Margaret Sullivan writes (Washington Post)
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To raise awareness of fact–checking, the world will mark International Fact-Checking Day, held each year on April 2 — the day after April Fool’s Day. This week, the International Fact–Checking Network launched Factcheckingday.com, a resource for citizens, readers and educators seeking to examine the validity of information, especially online.
International Fact–Checking Day is a rallying cry for more facts in politics, journalism and everyday life. Learn more in this press release, check out Factcheckingday.com for fact–checking games and lesson plans, and don’t forget to use #FactCheckIt and #FactCheckingDay on Twitter throughout the week.
The Texas Observer published an in-depth look at who reported good and bad information about the bombings in Austin last week.
Officials in the European Union are calling on journalists to help in the fight against fake news. // People are fact–checking President Trump’s grammar and spelling. // What’s missing from academic literature on fake news. // This hoax co-opted an old Britney Spears photo in an attempt to smear #NeverAgain activist Emma González. // Tumblr tackles its fake news problem, finally. // Was Jesus the “original target of fake news?” // Here’s a fun story about “liars tables” where people actually speak the truth. // Psychology Today fact-checks the science behind two new movies about abduction. // Two French public radio networks are teaming up to launch a podcast about fake news. // BuzzFeed News debunked a video of Snickers bars being burned in a pit. // This new project from the right-leaning Media Research Center aims to “fact-check the fact-checkers” and expose “liberal partisans.” // Egypt’s government now has a hotline for WhatsApp misinformation. // Men’s Health magazine is fact–checking shaky science stories with a video series. // Facebook published a “fact check” of reports about it collecting data on users’ text and call history. There’s just one problem: It’s not really a fact check.
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Continue reading Honda Civic Type R not enough for you? Hondata's Type R tune is here
Honda Civic Type R not enough for you? Hondata's Type R tune is here originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 29 Mar 2018 19:45:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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File this information away in your brain under the heading: What to do if a wild cheetah climbs in your car. The answer: Stay perfectly still, show respect by not looking directly at the cheetah, and if you can possibly keep your hands from shaking, roll some video.
Continue reading Cheetah mistakes a Land Rover for a Jaguar
Cheetah mistakes a Land Rover for a Jaguar originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 29 Mar 2018 17:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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We've seen all that there is to see at the 2018 New York Auto Show, and we won't be walking away disappointed. We saw pure concepts, concepts that clearly point the way for future production models, and comprehensive refreshes of some of the best-selling vehicles in America.
Continue reading We obsessively covered the 2018 New York Auto Show
We obsessively covered the 2018 New York Auto Show originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 29 Mar 2018 17:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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