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    "The Most Manual Driving Ever"

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    Bluetooth Battery Monitor (BLE Battery Monitor) Warning - Major Spyware

    I was thinking of buying some of these for some cars that are rarely driven... You need to install an app on your phone to use these. It turns out that the app is pretty abusive. The product collects GPS co-ordinates, cell phone tower data and nearby Wifi beacons Location data is sent over the...
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    Who needs a truck, when you can use your Porsche

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    Sludge inside a crankshaft

    I kid you not... skip to about 1:28 in the video:
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    The FBI is looking at Kaspersky Labs

    http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fbi-...rky-lab-n777571 Quote: "I wouldn't put their stuff on my computer if you paid me," said a former senior U.S. intelligence official.
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    Fan falls during race against the Freeze

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    Rock Solid Jack Stands

    https://twitter.com/NHPSouthernComm/status/876937902088781824
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    Roundup/Glyphosate probably safe after all

    http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/glyphosate-cancer-data/ Quote: When Aaron Blair sat down to chair a week-long meeting of 17 specialists at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in France in March 2015, there was something he wasn’t telling them. The epidemiologist...
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    Iridium plugs at 300,434 miles

    These are off the rear bank of my dad's 2005 Toyota Sienna. 3.3 liter V6 (3MZ-FE). What a PITA it was (you have to take off the cowl and the intake plenum to get to the plugs). Anyway, the car set a P0300 code (Cylinder 1 misfire) at 295,777 miles. I reset the code then, and it hadn't come back...
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    Motorcyclist jumps over 60 freeway Moreno Valley

    More complete video of the jump here: https://twitter.com/abc7robmcmillan/status/839183075175100416
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    Ars Technica Article - Red Light Camera Ticket

    A law professor goes up against the man when he gets a red light camera ticket and wasn't driving the car at the time. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/...of-the-century/ Some highlights: The City Attorney could not answer his basic question of whether this was a civil case or a...
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    The Barnacle (alternative to the Denver Boot)

    http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-na-car-barnacle-snap-story.html It's a big plate that suction cups to your windshield.
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    Liberty Media buys F1 for $8 billion

    http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-formula-one-liberty-media-20160907-snap-story.html
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    LoJack warning

    One of my friends recently had her car stolen and while it had a LoJack, it was useless. Turns out that a LoJack has a battery backup in it, but it's not rechargeable. So, for example, if your car mechanic does some work on the car and leaves the battery unplugged for an extended period of...
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    Honda loses small claims court lawsuit re Hybrid

    http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-honda-loses-civic-lawsuit-20120201,0,6604197.story Los Angeles County Superior Court Commissioner Douglas Carnahan ruled that the giant automaker mislead Civic owner Heather Peters when it claimed that the hybrid could achieve as much as 50 miles...
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