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05/17/2018 / By Ethan Huff

Why do Tesla electric cars keep bursting into flames and colliding with other vehicles?

Are they the present embodiment of the “vehicle of the future,” or are they flawed death traps that could kill you or others at any moment as they traverse roads and highways? Many people are asking themselves this disturbing and dichotomous question after three Tesla cars reportedly crashed or exploded – or both in a […]

03/17/2018 / By David Williams

Ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft cause increased traffic congestion in cities, research finds

It’s taken ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft less than a decade to become majorly disruptive market forces. But it looks like the market isn’t the only thing getting disrupted. Executives at either company have long maintained that their services help improve traffic in cities where they are available by virtue of the fact that […]

02/07/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

Lyfting your private data: Ride company’s employees brag about spying on users and execs

Lyft employees have been abusing their access to customers’ private data. Thanks to their high access clearances, they’ve been able to stalk people they’d just met and look up trip data for Hollywood actresses and porn stars. At least one employee has bragged about having Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg’s phone number. These were just some […]

12/10/2017 / By Jayson Veley

Join the truckers to oppose electronic surveillance and tyranny over the trucking industry

It’s always refreshing to see a group of hardworking, patriotic Americans coming together to advance liberty. On Monday, truckers across the country gathered together to voice their strong opposition to the electronic logging device mandate currently making its way through the halls of Congress. Part of a so-called “ELD Media Blitz,” the effort to require […]

10/01/2017 / By Michelle Simmons

Would you ride in a drone? Self-flying taxi will have parachutes but no driver

From self-driving cars to…self-flying taxis? The advancements in technology around the world continue as the world’s first self-flying taxi was tested in Sept. in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, as reported by The Daily Mail. The unmanned flying vehicle looks and flies similarly to a helicopter, except it is smaller with only two seats and has […]

07/29/2017 / By Jayson Veley

Elon Musk totally fabricates absurd claim that he has “verbal approval” to build massive underground transportation infrastructure in five East Coast cities

On Thursday, July 20, Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to social media and made an announcement that left many just as confused as they were shocked. “Just received verbal govt approval for The Boring Company to build an underground NY-Phil-Balt-DC Hyperloop. NY-DC in 29 minutes,” Musk wrote on Twitter. In a follow up post, the […]

10/16/2015 / By glitchnews

UBER’s ghost cars: The scam to appear abundant

Ever wonder why there always seems to be a ride nearby when you pull up your UBER app on your phone? Well, it turns out that the company has been knowingly populating fake cars in their app, to give the appearance of wide-scale availability. Alex Rosenblat, a New York-based data researcher, discovered this after doing […]

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