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Highway Rumble Strips Are Designed to Sound Awful, but Making Them Quieter Could Save Lives Too

One tire wanders across the painted line and the previously quiet cabin erupts with a harsh mechanical growl. The steering wheel trembles, the seat vibrates and, for half a second, it feels as if some

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Your Brake Rotors Turned Orange Overnight. They Probably Did Not Wear Out Overnight

Wash a car in the evening and look through its wheels the next morning. The brake rotors may have turned bright orange. The change can happen quickly enough to feel impossible. The discs looked cle

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Your Brake Pedal Started Fighting Back, but It May Be Trying to Help

There is no graceful way to discover how ABS feels for the first time. Something enters the road. The brake pedal goes down hard. Then, at precisely the moment when calm would be useful, the pedal beg

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The Skidding-Car Button Should Stay On, Except When It Is Keeping You Stuck

There is something wonderfully unhelpful about the traction-control symbol. It shows a car wriggling across the road, which makes the button beside it look like the obvious thing to press when the roa

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Buying Only Two New Tires? They May Belong on the Opposite End of Your Car

At the tire shop, the choice seems too obvious to question. The front tires on a front-wheel-drive car handle the steering, put the power down, and do most of the braking. They usually wear out first.

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The World's Smartest Self-Driving Cars Have One Tiny Problem. They Keep Trying to Swim.

The Waymo flood recall might be the most awkward story in self-driving right now, and it just got worse. If you live in Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, Houston, or San Antonio, your robotaxi is on pause.

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Your Foggy Headlights Are a Safety Hazard. Here's the $10 Fix You Can Do in Your Driveway

If your car is old enough to have a few parking-lot scars and one mystery rattle you’ve decided to ignore, go look at the headlights. There’s a good chance they’re not clear a

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Your Dad’s Car Advice Might Be Costing You Money

A lot of bad car advice survives because somebody said it with confidence. Maybe it was a dad, an uncle, a neighbor, or the guy at the quick-lube place who slapped a sticker on the windshield and t

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The $90K Camera Car: Porsche Apprentices Built a 345 HP 3-Seat 718 Boxster S

Cars and cameras have been a thing forever. Whether it's capturing design details or high-speed track action, motorsport photography has come a long way from those giant, clunky cameras to the tin

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Driving in a Weather Warning? Your Insurance is Still Valid

Despite what your Facebook feed might tell you, driving during weather warnings won't magically void your coverage. So there's another snowstorm headed your way, and suddenly everyone's

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