New Cars

Filed under: Etc., Government/Legal, Safety

The script for selling one of these “automated revenue enhancement devices” to a municipality might go something like “and the best feature of the Robthepopulace 3000 is that it never makes a mistake – machines don’t lie!” Tell that to Thomas, who received a citation in the mail after a South [...]

Filed under: Maintenance, Etc., Safety, Videos

Sure, they’ll say it’s for safety, driving on excessively worn tires is dangerous, but something more sinister is afoot. German firm ProContour has developed a tire tread depth measuring system that beams a laser at the wheels of passing vehicles and takes 430 million measurements per second to develop a [...]