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Voice activation can let a driver watch the road instead of dealing with buttons or touch-screen icons, but the systems still demand the driver's attention.

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Distracted by Tech While Driving? The Answer May Be More Tech

By PAUL STENQUIST

The most effective safety features may be the systems that are laying the foundation for the autonomous cars of the future.

Volkswagen

Souvenirs From Europe You Can't Sneak Through Customs

By STEPHEN WILLIAMS

French cheese or Spanish ham? Maybe. That sweet Citroën or Peugeot? Even if you can get it on a ship, it probably won't be allowed into the U.S.

Pininfarina's all-electric Battista will not be shown on the Javits Convention Center floor, but it got plenty of attention from automotive writers in town covering the show.

Tom Voelk

Before New York Auto Show, Cars Take Their Own Star Turns

By TOM VOELK

To stand out in this crowd, automakers have satellite events before the official reveals for the press at the Javits Convention Center.

A carburetor part made with a 3-D metal printer at HV3DWorks in Sewickley, Pa.

Kristian Thacker for The New York Times

New Parts for Old Cars May Keep Them Running, but Sink Their Value

By ROY FURCHGOTT

While technology like 3-D printing makes car collecting less expensive and more accessible, it has also made it harder to determine the actual value of a car.

'We Have a Lot of Questions': Doubts Over G.M. Plan for Lordstown Plant

General Motors confirmed on Wednesday that it planned to sell its Lordstown plant in Ohio to Workhorse, a small maker of electric vehicles and drones. Allison Farrand for The New York Times

By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ AND NEAL E. BOUDETTE

President Trump said he was helping to save jobs at the Ohio factory after General Motors ceased production there. But such promises have not always panned out.

Crash Scene Investigations, With Automakers on the Case

Volvo responds to auto accidents 24 hours a day within an hour's drive of the company's headquarters in Goteborg, Sweden. Volvo Cars

By TOM VOELK

Special teams dispatched by a number of manufacturers glean valuable information on what happens to vehicles and their occupants after a crash.

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Jim Hackett, Ford's chief executive, told employees that the company would cut 7,000 jobs by the end of August.

Ford Motor Will Cut 7,000 Jobs by August to Streamline Operations

By NEAL E. BOUDETTE

The company, which has struggled with slowing sales, said it was cutting salaried workers to reduce bureaucracy and speed up decision making.

A decision to impose auto tariffs would have been President Trump's most aggressive trade measure yet.<br /><br />

Trump Lifts Metal Tariffs and Delays Auto Levies, Limiting Global Trade Fight

By ANA SWANSON

President Trump said he would remove metal tariffs on Canada and Mexico and delay auto tariffs, stepping back from opening another front in a global trade war.

Elon Musk, Tesla's chief executive. The company said in a regulatory filing that it planned to raise about $2 billion in a combined bond offering and stock sale. Mr. Musk is expected to buy $10 million worth of the stock being sold.

Tesla Seeks to Raise $2 Billion in Sale of Stock and Debt

By PETER EAVIS

The plan, disclosed in a regulatory filing, comes after the carmaker announced a surprisingly sharp quarterly loss.

R.J. Scaringe, Rivian's chief executive, introducing the R1S electric sport utility vehicle in November. Ford hopes a partnership will hasten its own efforts to produce electric cars and trucks.

Ford to Invest $500 Million in Rivian, a Tesla Rival

By NEAL E. BOUDETTE

Rivian is developing a pickup and an S.U.V. on a chassis that Ford plans to use for models of its own. Two months ago, Amazon led a $700 million investment.

Alison Taylor sued the city of Saginaw, Mich., over the practice of chalking car tires to enforce parking limits. She had gotten 14 parking tickets in three years.

Lose the Chalk, Officer: Court Finds Marking Tires of Parked Cars Unconstitutional

By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON

The police in four states will have to drop an age-old method of telling whether a car has been parked too long: An appeals court says it violates the Fourth Amendment's ban on unreasonable searches.

In January Tesla started construction on a huge new factory near Shanghai, its first plant outside the United States.

Tesla to Investigate Car That Appeared to Burst Into Flames in Shanghai

By RAYMOND ZHONG

The fire, involving a Tesla sedan in a parking garage, left no one injured, the fire department said. The automaker said it had dispatched a team "at once."