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    Pedestrian Deaths in 2019 Were Highest in 30 Years, Report Says

    James AndrewsGetty Images The Governors Highway Safety Administration calculates that there were 6590 pedestrian fatalities in 2019 after making a preliminary analysis of the available data. If that estimate holds when numbers are released later this year, that would mark a 60 percent increase in fatalities since 2009. Meanwhile, all other traffic deaths only rose […] More

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    ICE Is Running Millions of Facial-Recognition Scans on Driver's-License Photos

    Colin Anderson Productions Getty Images The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency is using facial-recognition scans to identify potential undocumented immigrants without court or state oversight. Anyone with a Maryland license is now open to an ICE search, the Washington Post is reporting. Unchecked access to these types of databases has been abused before […] More

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    2022 Subaru WRX STI: What We Know So Far

    Illustration by Radovan VaricakCar and Driver There is all sorts of speculation swirling about the next-generation Subaru WRX STI. One report says it will have over 400 horsepower from a turbocharged 2.4-liter flat-four. We expect the new WRX models to arrive sometime in 2021 for the 2022 model year. We’ve been waiting for a new […] More

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    DS Aero Sport Lounge EV Offers French Design Mastery Plus 671 HP

    French luxury brand DS has unveiled its Aero Sport Lounge concept, a full-electric vehicle of SUV proportions. The concept is equipped with a 680-hp engine and a 110.0-kWh battery with a claimed range of just over 400 miles. Forget screens: infotainment is instead projected onto the car’s dashboard and works using gesture control. French luxury […] More

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    All-Wheel Drive on 2020 Toyota Camry Costs $1400 Extra

    Toyota announced that the 2020 Camry with all-wheel-drive will start at $27,325 for the Camry LE, compared with $25,925 for the front-wheel-drive Camry LE. AWD costs an additional $1400 on all trim levels. The all-wheel-drive system is available on the LE, SE, XLE, XSE, and Nightshade models. They’ll arrive starting in spring 2020, and the […] More

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    A New VW Golf GTI Always Makes Us Happy, and Here's the Mk 8

    The eighth-generation Volkswagen Golf GTI hot hatchback is here. It has a turbocharged 2.0-liter inline-four with 241 horsepower and 273 lb-ft of torque. Europe will get the new GTI this fall, but Americans will likely have to wait until the fourth quarter of 2021 for it to arrive. As the former owner of two second-generation […] More