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Swedish ebike maker Vässla has announced the US launch of its award-winning Pedal model, which was released in Europe last year. Now up for pre-order nationwide, New Yorkers are also being invited to join a subscription service where they can ride out for $109 per month.The Pedal was designed in collaboration with Munich-based Christian Zanzotti, and has notched up Gold in the 2023 German Design Awards.The wide top tube of the ebike's aluminum frame is angled for easier rider access, and is home to the removable 360-Wh…

A deadly Tesla crash in China last November, which at the time was subject to swirling social media rumors that blamed it on Autopilot or brake failure or too-powerful electric motors, turns out to have just been another example of pedal confusion. But now, data from the car’s Event Data Recorder has been posted to the internet by Xiao Te, a Tesla owner in China. And the data shows that in the seconds before the crash, the accelerator pedal was held at 100%, with no brakes applied. Further,…

IK Multimedia has been in the guitar rig emulation game for a long time. It released the first version of AmpliTube way back in 2002. And while the company has branched out quite a bit since then into synths, microphones and studio monitors, it hasn't given up on the world of guitar just yet. In September it released Amplitude ToneX, an AI-powered update to its long-running modeling software. And now it's combining that cutting edge software with its line of AmpliTube effects pedals to make a play at the increasingly…

Royal Enfield is a very popular and aspirational motorcycle brand for many in India. They have a variety of models in the market and Classic 350 is one of the popular among them. Royal Enfield motorcycles are popular in the modification circle too. We have seen several examples of neatly modified Royal Enfield motorcycles from different parts of the country. Some of them are modified to such an extent that the bike does not even look like Royal Enfield anymore. Here we have a very different-looking Royal Enfield…

Electric bikes, which provide motor assistance to make pedaling easier, have seen surging popularity over the past decade as a fun and efficient alternative form of transportation. One of the biggest successes of the e-bike movement has been creating new riders out of drivers that wouldn’t have otherwise considered switching from a car to a pedal bike. Now, a new study is showing just how much more efficient (and fun) e-bikes are than pedal bikes. The study, titled “It’s electric! Measuring…

Eventide declared the H9 the "one pedal to rule them all." But that was over eight years ago. It was the definition of cutting edge digital effects 2013. Things change though, and in 2022 the company is finally introducing a proper successor — the H90 Harmonizer.  The H90 is built on the same high-end ARM architecture as Eventide's $8,000 rack mount H9000. While the company doesn't get any more specific about the tech specs than that, it's safe to assume it's not the same exact setup in this $900 stompbox. There are 62…

SpaceX Chief Engineer Elon Musk takes part in a joint news conference with T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert (not pictured) at the SpaceX Starbase, in Brownsville, Texas, U.S., August 25, 2022.Adrees Latif | ReutersElon Musk sees elements of a recession in China and Europe and says that the U.S. Federal Reserve is raising interest rates by too much.But when asked on Tesla's third-quarter earnings call on Wednesday how his electric car company will fare in a potential recession, the world's wealthiest person expressed little…

We have to admit that being able to plug a guitar cable into a vinyl record to tap into onboard effects hasn't really been on our wishlist. But now that Romanus Records and ADD Pedals have actually built such a thing to mark the release of Brother O Brother's Skin Walker album, we so want one.Based in Indianapolis, the fuzz-rock duo Brother O Brother is no stranger to, well, strange limited-edition formats for its vinyl releases on Romanus Records. The band's Neon Native album was treated to its own LED light show in…

The Vässla Pedal has just launched as the Swedish mobility startup’s latest futuristic-looking electric bike, complete with high performance parts like torque-sensing pedal assist functionality. The Swedes have never been one to shy away from bold two-wheeler designs, and the Vässla Pedal isn’t about to change that tradition. The design is both minimalist and striking, lacking exposed wires or buttons and using a single frame tube instead of a conventional front triangle. The new launch also comes just in time for…

Tesla claims Autopilot is currently preventing about 40 crashes per day just by correcting drivers pressing the wrong pedal, something that has led Tesla to be accused of sudden acceleration in the past. Over the years, Tesla vehicles have often been accused of accelerating on their own, resulting in crashes. These events are called “sudden unintended acceleration,” which can be due to a defect or a driver’s mistake, more often than not from pressing the wrong pedal. We reported that the National Highway Traffic…