off road vehicles
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Here’s an Excellent Demonstration of How Off-road Traction Control Works
Technology like traction control is making cars safer and giving more vehicles greater capability. Now, everyday all-wheel drive crossovers can be decent off-road. Our alum Wes Siler thinks the auto industry doesn’t really do a good job explaining how this tech works, so he put together this excellent demonstration.
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NASA’s ‘Lunar Backpack’ Could Prevent Astronauts From Getting Lost on the Moon
The Moon is not the kind of place where you want to get lost, but it can get a little tricky trying to retrace your dusty footsteps without a GPS system in place. Thankfully, space engineers may have found a way around this limitation, designing a portable backpack meant to generate a real-time, 3D map…
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The Dongfeng M18 Is China’s Answer To America’s Oversized Electric Off-Roader, The Hummer EV
The Chinese automaker Dongfeng is back with another familiar model that borrows its design from an American vehicle, but this time it’s taking more than the look — it’s going for the attitude, too. Dongfeng Motors is making an oversized and overpowered off-road EV called the M18 that’s more or less the Chinese copy of…
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Reminder: Pre-Ordering A Car You’ve Never Driven Is A Bad Idea
We get article suggestions all of the time, and often they’re fantastic ideas because, as you know, our readers are very smart. And devastatingly attractive. And while I’m sure that’s the case with this particular article-suggestor, the article suggested isn’t the one I think they had in mind. It involves a new 2021 First Edition…