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Westend61 | Westend61 | Getty ImagesAccess to personal cars remains important to Americans despite the growing monthly cost of ownership. The average monthly auto payment reached $733, a new record, in the second quarter of the year, according to a report by auto site Edmunds.Seventy-eight percent of middle-income households earning between $47,000 to $142,000 rely on a vehicle to get to work, Santander Bank found in a new survey, and 74% are willing to make financial tradeoffs to maintain access to cars. For instance,…

Wild elephants attacking vehicles and destroying crops have become very common lately. We have come across several cases where these wild creatures are often seen roaming on roads and villages near the jungle. In some cases, the elephants have also attacked people and killed some too. Most of these attacks happen when these animals are out from the jungle looking for food. We have seen several videos in the past where people have narrowly escaped elephant attacks. Here we have one such video, where a truck driver’s…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Most navigation apps can show you the fastest possible route to your destination and some can even suggest an eco-friendly route calculated to produce the least amount of carbon emissions. But what if they could also map the safest route with the lowest possible…

A driver’s license for an electric bike? It could be coming soon in California, believe it or not. That’s if some state lawmakers who drafted Assembly Bill 530 get their way. The new bill has been proposed to create such a driver’s license in California. The move is in response to many young electric bike riders who often take to the streets without having tested for or received a typical driver’s license for a standard car. That means they are often ignorant of many traffic laws and safety…

Private bus owners have demanded the implementation of the Shakti scheme in private buses and reimbursement for women's tickets by the state government. (Image: KRTC)Over 20 organisations representing private bus operators, tourist operators, autorickshaw and taxi drivers have decided to observe a strike to press chief minister Siddaramaiah government to fulfill their demandsPrivate buses, autorickshaws, and taxis are likely to stay off the roads in Bengaluru on July 27 in protest against the Congress-led Karnataka…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeWriter and filmmaker Paul Schrader has described Oppenheimer as the “best” and “most important film of this century”.Directed by Christopher Nolan, the film follows the life of theoretical physicist J Robert Oppenheimer, who spearheaded the development of the first nuclear bomb. Schrader, 76, is best known as the writer of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver and for directing films such as…

Adam Driver’s significant star power is breathing new life into one of the actor’s biggest flops thanks to streaming. Though the sci-fi actioner 65 represents the worst-reviewed movie of Driver’s entire career, it apparently generated enough curiosity from audiences to still make a significant mark on its Netflix debut. 65 currently holds the number 2 spot on Netflix’s Top 10 movies this week. That represents quite the comeback for a movie that holds firmly in the mid-30s on Rotten Tomatoes, and barely eked past its…

The European Union's attempt to standardize its regulatory framework on artificial intelligence gets a half-hearted response as many Asian countries decide to take up a wait-and-see approach. In other news, an Indian legal tech startup CaseMine has launched the nation's first AI-powered legal assistant called Amicus. This and more in today's AI roundup. Let us take a closer look.CaseMine launches AI legal assistantA Delhi-NCR-based legal tech startup called CaseMine has launched India's first-ever AI-powered legal…

Last week, union transport minister Nitin Gadkari announced that he had approved the draft notification to mandate the installation of air-conditioning systems in the cabins of trucks belonging to categories N2 and N3. (Representational photo: PTI)A notification issued by the ministry says trucks manufactured after January 1, 2025, with maximum mass above 3.5 tonnes will have to be fitted with an air-conditioning system for cabinsTrucks manufactured after January 1, 2025, will have to be fitted with an air-conditioning…

With his high pompadour and a penchant for boxy leather jackets and bold patterned shirts, Joaquim Calçada looks like he has wandered straight out of a 1970s movie. His face, though not conventionally handsome, has a kind of cinematic quality that could have promised a fruitful career as a tough-guy character actor in a bygone era before Instagramified prettiness took over film casting. Perhaps inspired by Calçada’s distinctive looks, Susana Nobre’s intriguing docufiction brings a playful dose of smoke and mirrors to a…