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Your Tire Pressure Rose on the Highway. Put the Gauge Down Before Letting Air Out

The sticker inside the driver’s door says 35 PSI. After an hour on the highway, the dashboard says 39. Four extra pounds of pressure sounds like a problem. The tires were set correctly that morn

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The “B” on Your Hybrid Shifter Does Not Mean Battery, Boost or Better Economy

Park, Reverse, Neutral and Drive need little introduction. Then there is B. It sits on the shifter of many hybrids looking important but refusing to explain itself. Battery seems like the obvious

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Your Brake Rotors Turned Orange Overnight. Here Is When to Worry

The car looked spotless when it was parked. Then it rained overnight, or perhaps the wheels received an enthusiastic blast at the car wash. By morning, the shiny brake rotors had turned orange. Not sl

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Why Your Car Switches On the Air Conditioning When You Ask for Heat

It is a cold morning. The windshield is cloudy, the cabin feels like a refrigerator, and the defrost button has just been pressed with all the optimism available before coffee. Then the A/C light come

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That Little Lurch After Selecting Park Is Your Car Asking for the Parking Brake

Park on a slope, move the shifter to P, take a foot off the brake, and most automatic cars will perform a small, familiar shuffle. The body rolls a fraction of an inch, stops with a muted clunk, then

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Those Nearly New Tires May Be Much Older Than They Look

A tire can look almost offensively healthy for its age. The tread grooves are deep. There are no nails in sight. The sidewalls still turn glossy after a wash, and the car has covered so few miles th

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An EV Road Trip Can Go Great. It Can Also Go Sideways Faster Than a Gas-Car Driver Expects

A long road trip in a gas car is mostly about endurance.nA long road trip in an EV is about logistics. That is the real difference, and it is a bigger one than a lot of people realize until the

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The 70/30 Motorcycle Brake Rule Is Not a Magic Formula, and Thinking It Is Can Get You Hurt

A lot of motorcycle advice gets passed around in a way that makes it sound simpler than it really is. The 70/30 brake rule is a perfect example. People hear it and think, okay, easy, seventy pe

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Can You Actually Sleep at a New York Thruway Rest Stop Without Getting Towed?

Anyone who has ever hit that wall on a long drive knows the feeling. The music stops helping. Coffee stops helping. Rolling the window down stops helping. At some point, the smartest move is no

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Self-Driving Cars Are Running Real Routes in Real Cities Now — And the Safety Numbers Are Surprising

For a long time, self-driving cars felt like one of those technologies that was always five years away. There was a lot of demo footage, a lot of press releases, a lot of "the future is here"

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