Uber Drops Mandatory Arbitration for Sexual Assault Claims
Responding to mounting criticism about how it handles sexual assault and sexual harassment claims, Uber will no longer require arbitration for these complaints. The new policy, which applies to...
View ArticleFlixBus Brings Its Uber-Style Bus Service to The U.S.
Long before Uber and Lyft, there existed an easy-accessible form of shared transportation: The bus. Since 2013, FlixBus has tried to apply an Uber-like business model to bus service in Europe,...
View ArticleDJI Air Vs. GDU O2 Comparison Test: A Compact Drone Face-Off
Since it entered the consumer drone market, DJI has been consistently the brand to beat—so much so, in fact, that many of its competitors just gave up, focusing instead on toy-grade quadcopters or...
View ArticleHonda Civic Type R Sets FWD Lap Record at Magny-Cours GP Circuit in France
The Honda Civic Type R just broke another lap record. This time, it clocked a 2:01.51 sec lap at the Magny-Cours GP circuit in France—the fastest for a front-wheel-drive production car around the...
View ArticleThe Drive at Indy: Reporting Directly From the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Practice for the 102nd running of the Indianapolis 500 begins Tuesday, and with it, a tidal wave of announcements regarding the 35 racing drivers that will attempt to claim one of the 33 spots...
View ArticleA-10 Warthogs May Stop Firing Controversial Depleted Uranium Ammunition For Good
The U.S. Air Force is looking to get new ammunition for the A-10 Warthog’s iconic GAU-8/A Avenger cannon and is debating whether it should buy rounds with armor-piercing cores that don’t contain...
View ArticleThe Mystery of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 May Never Be Solved—But We...
It’s been four years since Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 vanished from the skies with 239 souls on board. Since then, searchers have combed hundreds of thousands of square miles of ocean looking for...
View ArticleRodents Are Feasting On Newer Cars' Soy-Based Wiring Insulation
In an effort to be more friendly to the environment, companies are making more and more automotive components out of renewable materials, such as soy or even cannabis. Unfortunately, a side effect of...
View ArticleFelipe Massa Will Race in Formula E Next Season
Despite expressing an interest in Formula E, nobody but Felipe Massa himself knew if he would return to motorsport after retiring from Formula 1 at the end of the 2017 season. As of Tuesday, however,...
View Article2019 Hyundai Veloster Starts at $18,500, Veloster Turbo Goes for $22,900
After the car's debut at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit last January, Hyundai has finally revealed pricing and options for the 2019 Veloster. With a new face, premium interior...
View Article2019 Bentley Continental GT First Drive Review: The New Bentley Is Almost...
Such is my life that on an otherwise humdrum Tuesday in May, while former Porsche performance design genius Wolfgang Hatz rots in a German jail, federal indictments hound Volkswagen’s...
View ArticleNorth Korea Threatens To Scrap Summit With The United States Over Military...
North Korea's premier Kim Jong Un and his regime appear to be trying to use a summit with U.S. President Donald Trump as leverage to force the United States and South Korea to cancel a combined...
View ArticleToyota Patents Off-the-Wall Telescoping Tail Feature
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, the division of Toyota that works to make new cars and technologies, allegedly filed a patent for a telescoping device design to improve the...
View ArticleMcLaren Releases New Brand Lifestyle Smartphone Application
McLaren has launched a new smartphone application for screen-obsessed McLaren lovers that puts all of the brand's news and vehicle information right at your fingertips. This customizable lifestyle app...
View ArticleThe YF-23's Air Inlet Design Was Its Most Exotic Feature You Never Heard Of
The loser to Lockheed's YF-22 for the Advanced Tactical Fighter competition, Northrop's YF-23, has turned into a mythical beast of sorts within military aviation circles. Not only do throngs of...
View ArticleSmall, Manually Operated Drone Services are Being Squashed by Big Business
Professional drone pilots who get paid to capture aerial imagery or other data for clients are currently in the middle of an existential crisis, according to a report by Bloomberg. As corporations are...
View ArticleLucky Road Rally Participants Survive Brutal, High-Speed Crash in a McLaren 720S
Two people who were participants in the Corsa Rally West were involved in a high-speed crash while at the wheel of a new McLaren 720S. The massive wreckage was found near the Lake Mead recreational...
View ArticleWhy Did Squirrels Fill A Dodge With 50 Pounds of Pinecones?
Last week, Kellen Moore of Gaylord, Michigan woke up to a peculiar occurrence in the engine bay of their Dodge Journey minivan. For whatever reason, they decided to open up the engine bay of their...
View ArticleTextron's VTOL X5-55 Drone is Agile, Modular, Quickly Switches From Vertical...
Textron Systems Unmanned Systems just unveiled its new X5-55 drone as the foundation for the company’s next generation of UAV engineering and testing. According to Drone DJ, this particular UAV was...
View ArticleDaimler Files Tsunami of Trademarks in Advance of 'EQ' EV Debut
Daimler AG and its main vehicular marque Mercedes-Benz are gearing up for the launch of its "EQ" electrified sub-brand later this year, which will arrive with the debut of the EQC electric crossover....
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