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Our Vergecast Hotline is up and running

Every Wednesday and Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast, where our editors make sense of the week’s most important technology news. On Wednesdays, editor-at-large David Pierce leads a selection of The Verge’s expert staffers in an exploration of how gadgets and software affect our lives — and which ones you should bring…

EV owners won’t be able to pick their own low-speed noise after NHTSA scraps proposal

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Well, that’s a bummer. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration won’t be moving forward with a proposal to let electric vehicle owners pick their own low-speed sounds, citing a lack of “supportable data.” The move was first reported by Reuters. Back in 2019, NHTSA introduced a proposed rule-making…