Detroit carjackings are up 40 percent compared to last year - and the ages of the kids doing them – have become unbelievable. A Tennessee man stands accused of carjacking his Tinder date at gunpoint last year and trying to sell her car back to her for $500. Elijah Darius Scott, 25, of Memphis, Tennessee, landed in the Shelby County Jail on Tuesday after being charged with carjacking and aggravated robbery, as well as employment of a firearm during a dangerous felony, according to local outlet WREG. The alleged victim informed officers that after agreeing to meet a man she knew only as Darius, Scott entered the passenger side of the vehicle, placed a gun next to her and demanded her phone and money while threatening to shoot her. Elijah Darius Scott, 25, allegedly carjacked a Memphis woman and offered to sell her car back to her for $500.

When a customer said they had driven across three US states, from Texas to North Carolina, to get their car fixed, Tesla servicer Jason Hughes knew something must be up. It turned out to be an unusual problem: the Model S had lost a third of its battery range in an instant, while it was parked on a driveway. One of the US electric carmaker's big selling points is that it is constantly connected to its vehicles via mobile networks, offering software updates and entertainment downloads "over the air", or OTA. That remote connection could be revolutionary for the industry, opening the door for self-driving features to be downloaded and TV shows to be livestreamed in high definition. But the connected car is having teething problems.