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A new product on the market billing itself as the “Ziplock bag” for cars is saving many vehicles from flood damage caused by major natural disasters.

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she thinks the internal combustion engines that are the mainstay of her country’s auto industry will eventually have to be phased out.

HELSINKI (AP) — Volvo will begin producing electric motors on all its cars from 2019, becoming the first major automaker to forgo traditional engines that rely exclusively on internal combustion.

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has arrived in Washington for a long day of talks with his American counterpart President Donald Trump, which the pair will follow with a casual visit to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

On Saturday, Gov. Jerry Brown signed AB 797, the Right to Rescue Act, allowing Californians to break into vehicles in order to rescue animals trapped inside of hot cars.

TEL AVIV – Israel GPS app Waze has added a feature reminding parents to check they haven’t accidentally left their children in the backseat before exiting the car.

In a video posted by PJ Media, Marco Rubio answers 46 rapid fire questions on multiple topics, including pop culture, cars, yoga, music, and the zombie apocalypse.

Video of last week’s flash flood and mudslides north of Los Angeles shows the first hand account of several occupants inside a vehicle caught up in a sweeping flow of sludge on October 15.

The “anti-religious” messages carved into several parked cars outside an apartment complex on the University of California Davis campus on Saturday turn out to have been swastikas.

An ongoing investigation into the security of Chrysler vehicles bears some pretty startling conclusions. In a couple of weeks, security researchers will reveal the details of a zero-day exploit that affects some 471,000 cars. Put bluntly: Hackers can take complete control of the cars from thousands of miles away.

In a national poll, more than 1 in 4 Americans said they would support limits on humans driving cars in the near future, given the fact that robotic self-driving cars could be safer.

Taxi unions are not the only government protected industry that ride-sharing companies are overhauling. Auto dealerships are indirectly feeling the heat, as American teens skip getting their driver’s license. Once an established past-time in American culture, in the last 30 years, the number of 16-year-olds with driver’s licenses has plummeted 40%, according to a 2012 article published in the journal of Traffic Injury Prevention.

On Tuesday, Akron police finally got a solid lead on the man who has pooped on roughly 20 cars over the last three years.

Researchers are saying that “virtual traffic lights” that appear on a driver’s dashboard could revolutionize traffic patterns and make our drives faster and safer.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has called for streets to be reclaimed for pedestrians. The recommendation comes in a list of ten “geometric principles” designed to relearn from traditional approaches to architecture, which place human beings and nature