Welcome to our weekly round-up of the biggest breaking stories on Driving.ca from this past week. Get caught up and ready to get on with the weekend, because it’s hard keeping pace in a digital traffic jam.Here’s what you missed while you were away.Watch the Tesla Cybertruck lean through a left (and crush a pylon)Whos driving @ElonMusk or the Auto-Pilot?$TSLA pic.twitter.com/xvmyHPG8Ol GuruLeaks (@Guruleaks1) December 8, 2019Elon Musk took the Cybertruck out for a drive in Los Angeles recently, grabbing a bite to eat at Nobu and a bunch of press coverage while he was at it.A TMZ video of the truck leaving the restaurant shows it accelerating out across the intersection and leaning pretty hard in the corner, despite the heavy battery packs lining the floor. Hopefully that gets ironed out before production. The truck also levels a plastic parking sign as it leaves the lot. Was that Elon showing off, teenager-style, or does he just not know how to drive his own truck? Chevy reveals 2021 Suburban and TahoeThe 2021 Suburban and Chevrolet Tahoe had their debut this week, revealing big changes inside and out, including new platforms. The solid rear axle and old chassis is gone, replaced by GM’s T1 platform, which has helped Chevy capitalize on the interior space the big families that own these things require. There’s more cargo space and improved access to the third row (the Tahoe expanded nearly seven inches in length, with three inches more legroom in the second row and 10 in the third). Check out our coverage of the debut, including photo galleries of both vehicles. The Hollywood Walk of Fame just gave the Chevy Suburban its own starThe more than 2,600 pink-terrazzo-stone-and-brass-stars that make up the Hollywood Walk of Fame have been honouring Tinseltown’s most-talented for decades. Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Bryan Adams and Harrison Ford (he’s got two) have all been immortalized in stone along the 2.1-km strip that runs east to west along Hollywood Boulevard. This week, a new star stone was unveiled: one for the Chevrolet Suburban. The SUV has appeared in at least one movie per year since 1960. There are other non-humans that have made the Walk, including the LAPD, the Dodgers, even Victoria’s Secret, but Chevy is the first-ever vehicle to make the cut. French man runs out of gas while evading policeIf you’re ever planning to ditch a police officer, make sure you’ve got enough gas for the chase. A French man tried to ditch the fuzz rather than face up to a speeding ticket, but instead of evading the law, he wound up losing his license for the next six months.The officer had clocked the driver, who was behind the wheel of a Mercedes-AMG C63, going 206 km/h in a 130-km/h zone, and as he was about to issue him a “red card,” the driver fled. The pursuit continued, but not for long: the Mercedes drained its fuel tank and the cops found the driver sitting in the back seat, claiming he’d been left behind by a different driver. Hm, ‘A’ for effort.Shelby F-150 Super Snake will make 770 horsepowerMost concepts don’t go beyond just that, the concept stage, remaining cool in theory, but not really made for real life. Earlier this year in Vegas at SEMA, the world laid eyes on the Shelby F-150 Super Snake Sport concept truck for the first time, and following the public’s overwhelming positive reaction, it’s been given the green light for production. Not only that, but the automaker announced 250 of the 2020 models (there are two powertrains — a 395-horsepower naturally aspirated V8 and a 770-horsepower supercharged V8) will be built for both the U.S. market as well as Canada. LISTEN: Harvey Soicher embarked on a two-month adventure that saw him drive his brand new Audi e-tron 55 quattro Technik across Canada and then back home through the States. The logistics were daunting, particularly with the northern route Harvey had chosen, where electric charging infrastructure is by no means established. But with the helpful assistance of plugshare.com, he mapped out a route that kept him charging forward. Plugged In is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and Google Podcasts.Is the player not working? Click
Origin: News Roundup: the Cybertruck’s mean lean, the Suburban’s Hollywood Star and Shelby’s 770-hp F-150
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Incoming U.S. regulations mean Teslas could fart at you
Tesla Model 3 Starting September 2020, electric vehicles sold in the U.S. will be required to make an artificial noise while traveling under 30 km/h, for the safety of pedestrians who may otherwise not hear the near-silent vehicles.While most car companies will probably fit their EVs with some kind of whirring or fake engine noise, its well-noted Tesla CEO Elon Musk thinks normal is just a setting on a washing machine.That explains why Musk said in a Tweet that Tesla vehicles will be able to make much more fun noises, like coconuts being used to imitate horse clip-clops; goat bleats; and, er farts.💨 🐐 sounds too (also, of course) Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 6, 2019The coconuts mention is a reference Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail; in the dry British comedy, King Arthurs servant clicks two coconut half-shells together in lieu of Arthur riding a real horse. As for the farts, were not sure theres a real impetus for their inclusion, other than the fact theyre hilarious, as are goats bleating.The feature was added to the Model 3 last month, and the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recently proposed new rules that would allow the customization of the sounds used. On top of these heads-up noises, Tesla car horn sounds may similarly be made customizable, The Verge reports. Laws vary state to state, but most suggest as long as the horn can be heard from 200 feet away and arent an unreasonably loud or harsh sound or a whistle, youre okay.That theoretically means you can make your car fart constantly or on command win-win!While everybody is having fun in North America, it seems like the Europeans will have to do with much more boring options, as usual. While their rules will come into place in 2021, they state electric vehicles should sound similar to the sound of a vehicle of the same category equipped with an internal combustion engine, prompting us to make a fart of a different
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#WeTheCongested: What do the Raptors’ wins mean for Toronto traffic?
In this file photo, vehicles makes their way into and out of downtown Toronto along the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto.Nathan Denette / The Canadian Press Are you an up-and-coming fair-weather basketball fan? You might want to get yourself some comfortable walking shoes—with the state of Toronto’s roads, and the team’s winning streak, the growing Raptors bandwagon ain’t going nowhere any time soon. Following the Eastern Conference victory Saturday night, fans everywhere were celebrating like never before. The honking traffic didn’t start driving around our mid-Toronto neighbourhood until after midnight, probably because the drivers simply couldn’t move before then. Recall this publication recently reported that 600 or so Toronto roads are getting the time-out this summer for around 140 km of roadworks. Consequently, Toronto’s current traffic functions as well as the Raptors’ defence circa 1998, or the Jays’ circa May 2019. Mind, you can’t accuse the city of not trying. This year, over $1 billion (a.k.a. Kawhi’s signing bonus) is being spent to remedy the situation. The gist? You probably won’t hear traveling called much throughout the finals in TO. Perhaps presciently, the Raps secured their first-ever finals run on the day following the kickoff of Hogtown’s annual Bike to Work Month. But with hilariously poetic timing, one of the city’s most vital bike paths, Bloor Street between Bathurst and Spadina, is being shredded today. The expected end date? Sometime in December. By then, invincibly optimistic Leaf fans (you know the sort) estimate their Buds will already have secured a spot in next year’s playoffs. So, what days will TO traffic reach its nadir, creating a Jurassic parking lot? Having won more games than Golden State this season, the Raptors enjoy home court advantage during these finals, which means at least two games will further clog our already Jurassic-ally clogged streets. The first game is this Thursday, May 30 at 9 pm; and the second three days later, Sunday, June 2, at 8 pm. If you worry that you or someone you love just ever-so-possibly may need to hurry to the hospital on either afternoon, evening or late night, consider arranging to be out of town. Or inflate the tire on your wheelbarrow because the ambulance is likely to be ambulatory. Now, not to get too far ahead of ourselves, but you also have to wonder what a victory parade would look like given the state of the city’s roads. There’s not much to compare it to: the closest we’ve got is the 1967 Leafs’ victory parade from the Gardens (which no longer exists) to City Hall (which was brand-new and actually capable of supporting fans on its now-crumbling grounds) to celebrate the Stanley Cup (which is what again?). A simple march from Scotiabank Arena to City Hall could be even more fraught. The population was 700,000 in 1967. Today it’s two million more than that. An undoctored screen capture of today’s road restrictions in Toronto. Steve Bochenek Will any parading Raps in size-20 kicks slip into one of the city’s as-yet unrepaired T-Rex-sized potholes and break an ankle? Stay tuned, sports fans! Don’t get us wrong. Of course, this victory is good for the city’s image. Tourism will flourish. And heaven knows Toronto’s long-suffering sports fans deserve a nod from God. But there’s one GTA collective who’ve suffered even more. We The Congested have endured a hell of a bad ride since long before Nick Nurse was even a candy striper, or Kawhi emitted his first awkward
Origin: #WeTheCongested: What do the Raptors’ wins mean for Toronto traffic?
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