The Rimac Nevera Has Broken the Production EV Nurburgring Lap Record(thedrive.com)

31 points by clouddrover 3 years ago | 13 comments

Tesla Could Be Fined Daily over Autopilot’s Nag-Free ‘Elon Mode’(thedrive.com)

35 points by sschueller 3 years ago | 17 comments

Rivian R1T Fender Bender Turns into $42,000 Repair Bill(thedrive.com)

41 points by clouddrover 3 years ago | 39 comments

Watch a 7k-LB Rivian R1T Destroy a Guardrail in Eyebrow-Raising Test(thedrive.com)

21 points by ourmandave 2 years ago | 29 comments

Kia, Hyundai Blame Mass Car Thefts on ‘Lax Policing’ in Court Defense(thedrive.com)

34 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 24 comments

Oregon finally legalizes pumping your own gas(thedrive.com)

389 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 420 comments

The Drive news article reporting that Oregon has legalized self-service gas pumping after a 72-year ban.

Dust from car brakes more harmful than exhaust, study finds(e360.yale.edu)

363 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 333 comments

Yale Environment 360 digest article reporting a study finding that dust from car brake pads is more harmful to lungs than exhaust emissions.

Study finds billions of nanoplastics released when microwaving containers(news.unl.edu)

426 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 301 comments

University of Nebraska–Lincoln news article on a study finding microwaving plastic baby food containers releases billions of nanoplastics that harm cultured kidney cells.

Electric cars produce less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars(modernengineeringmarvels.com)

480 points by tzs 1 year ago | 680 comments

Article on how electric cars, through regenerative braking, produce less brake dust and non-exhaust pollution than combustion cars, improving urban air quality.

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics(news.umich.edu)

537 points by giuliomagnifico 7 months ago | 242 comments

University of Michigan news release on a study finding nitrile and latex gloves can contaminate samples and cause overestimation of microplastics.

New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste(rochester.edu)

490 points by speckx 4 months ago | 202 comments

University of Rochester news article about a new desalination method that turns ocean water into drinking water without producing waste brine.

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.