Steve DaSilva

Elon Musk claimed it could serve as a boat, but did he mean it to be used in salt water?

The second-generation Tesla Roadster is back in the news after Elon Musk announced that the car would hit 60 miles an hour in less than a second (about 96km/h). This is nearly a full second faster than the current record-holder, which got me wondering: Is it actually possible? I crunched some numbers to get the…

It’s been 16 years since Ford introduced Active Park Assist, the one-button automatic parallel parking feature that saved drivers across the globe entire minutes of mild embarrassment while parking on crowded streets. Now, though, it seems that halcyon era of mitigated self-consciousness may be coming to an end. Ford, apparently, is tired of shelling out…

The raid is the latest in a string of miseries at Toyota.