Suckers List
How Allstate’s secret auto insurance algorithm squeezes big spenders.
Cars
'There's No Such Thing As Cold Hard Reality'
Meet the Hyperloop’s truest believers.
Inside the Twisted, Worldwide Hunt for a $7 Million Stolen Car
Joe Ford, car detective, searches the world for stolen rare automobiles on the black market.
Driven
How a 22-year-old mother became the first woman to drive cross-country.
Demon Underneath
The rise and fall of fraudster John DeLorean.
Bikes vs. Cars: The Deadly War Nobody's Winning
Riding along with the cycling lawyer who’s trying to change that.
Mad Genius Behind the Wheel
Tackling North America’s longest continuous off-road race in an ’80s VW Bug.
Inside Alabama’s Auto Jobs Boom
Cheap wages, little training, and crushed limbs.
A Journey and a Race at 80 mph
Five cars (all bought with $3,000 or less) containing 13 men (some in costume) race from New York City to California.
The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers
On the battle between Google, Apple, Uber, and Tesla to own the driverless car market, which could be worth more than $30 billion a year.
Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—With Me in It
The men who are trying to find out if wireless carjacking is possible.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Stick Shift"
A girl's interaction before her Coming Out dance.
"I had no idea about myself, whether I was pretty or different or what. That I had not yet attracted a boyfriend was a failure that weighed on my mind. If I was pretty, I figured, I would have one already. But if I was different, a fresh idea for me, that would explain the problem, for I thought that boys didn’t like girls who weren’t the same as every other girl they knew. I didn’t play varsity sports and look like it, and I wasn’t fey, I didn’t play an instrument or go in for the arts. I was smart, though. “Boys are intimidated by your intellect,” my married sister once told me, meaning it as a compliment. But I didn’t act nearly as smart as I was, so I couldn’t believe that was true."
How General Motors Silenced a Whistle-Blower
Courtland Kelley knew there was a problem more than a decade ago. He tried to speak up. He sued. He lost.
A Broken Place: The Spectacular Failure of the Startup That Was Going to Change the World
Shai Agassi had nearly $1 billion in funding and a dream to replace gas guzzlers with electric cars. All he was missing was a plan.
The Mysterious Story of the Battery Startup that Promised GM a 200-Mile Electric Car
How an up-and-coming company went bust.
Auto Correct
The long road to Google’s self-driving car.
The Pedal-to-the-Metal, Totally Illegal, Cross-Country Sprint for Glory
How to drive across America in less than 32 hours and 7 minutes.
How to Build an American Car
The people behind “the only American luxury compact sport sedan.”
Let the Robot Drive
The autonomous car of the future is here:
I was briefly nervous when Urmson first took his hands off the wheel and a synthy woman’s voice announced coolly, “Autodrive.” But after a few minutes, the idea of a computer-driven car seemed much less terrifying than the panorama of indecision, BlackBerry-fumbling, rule-flouting, and other vagaries of the humans around us—including the weaving driver who struggles to film us as he passes.
