– Beyond their obvious round and black traits, tires are paragons of mystery. Over the years, we’ve helped you decode the secrets with stories on how to read a sidewall, how to make your tires last longer, and how to know if your vehicle rides on manufacturer-specific rubber. We’ve conducted tire comparison tests and sliced open tires to explain what’s inside. But tires evolve as quickly as cars do, so
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– Say what you will about season two of the HBO series True Detective, but of all the show’s implausible over-complication, and as Wired points out, its impossible driving timelines, it did get one unexpected thing so very, very right. All season, those on staff watching the show have wondered how the various cop-spec Dodge Chargers driven by Detective Velcoro (played by Colin Farrell) could possibly sound so bad-ass. There’s
-Digital security researcher Samy Kamkar has been on a car-hacking kick lately. Last week, he revealed a homebuilt device that can intercept signals from the General Motors OnStar smartphone app to track, unlock, and remote-start a car connected to the app. Now, he’s showing off something even more sinister: A $30 device that can copy the coded signal from just about any car’s remote key fob, allowing him to lock or
-Digital security researcher Samy Kamkar has been on a car-hacking kick lately. Last week, he revealed a homebuilt device that can intercept signals from the General Motors OnStar smartphone app to track, unlock, and remote-start a car connected to the app. Now, he’s showing off something even more sinister: A $30 device that can copy the coded signal from just about any car’s remote key fob, allowing him to lock or
“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.”-— Jack Kerouac, On The Road – While the automobile may have spent the better part of the last century as an avatar for hope and a better tomorrow, it’s the road trip that serves as the catalyst for adventure and freedom. Back in 1915, nobody knew this better than a then 21-year-old Edsel Ford, who, along with a group of like-minded young men,
-The refreshed 2016 Honda Accord has big shoes to fill—its own. After all, the Accord has landed on our 10Best Cars list 29 times, and it has remained one of America’s favorite family shuttles in terms of annual sales. Even as the market migrates to crossovers, the Accord remains hugely important to Honda. So for 2016, Honda has added some new ingredients (covered in detail here), to its winning recipe.
“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.”-— Jack Kerouac, On The Road – While the automobile may have spent the better part of the last century as an avatar for hope and a better tomorrow, it’s the road trip that serves as the catalyst for adventure and freedom. Back in 1915, nobody knew this better than a then 21-year-old Edsel Ford, who, along with a group of like-minded young men,
“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.”-— Jack Kerouac, On The Road – While the automobile may have spent the better part of the last century as an avatar for hope and a better tomorrow, it’s the road trip that serves as the catalyst for adventure and freedom. Back in 1915, nobody knew this better than a then 21-year-old Edsel Ford, who, along with a group of like-minded young men,