Rental cars may be tracking you

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That incredibly cheap rental deliberately hides a small tracking device underneath the dashboard. They secretly monitor your chaotic driving habits to wildly penalize your wallet later.

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Automobile safety regulations require modern cars to be incredibly massive compared to their older counterparts to cram in all the heavy protective roll cages and impact crumple zones.

How a rental car mistake can get you arrested

First car to break the sound barrier, ThrustSSC in 1997, showed that engines designed for fighter jets could power wheels beyond imagination.

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