• The Honda Accord arrives for 2026 with a larger standard touchscreen with wireless smartphone connectivity
• The Accord's hybrid powertrain is as powerful as it is efficient.
• 2026's Honda Accord starts at $29,590

The Accord is Honda's midsize sedan, and it offers a strong argument against the usual family SUV. That's largely thanks to the Accord's big trunk, roomy rear seats, and a hybrid powertrain with plenty of power and pleasing efficiency. The Accord doesn't offer all-wheel drive like the Toyota Camry, though its EPA figures in no small part make up for that omission.

Read all of our 2026 Honda Accord content:
2025 Honda Accord: All Trim Levels Explained
2026 Honda Accord Gets a Bigger Touchscreen, New Wheels and Not Much Else

The 2026 Honda Accord continues the sedan's hot streak with solid cargo capacity, tons of rear legroom, and great visibility.

The 2026 model year brings these new 19-inch wheels to the roster, which offer a sportier look.

The Accord's ride quality is worthy of a luxury car.

Hybrid versions like this Sport-L trim offer peppy acceleration thanks to a total system output of 204 horsepower.

The Accord cuts a very modern, minimalist silhouette.

Inside, the Accord retains plenty of easy-to-use physical switchgear.

The Accord doesn't pack the latest connected technology, but its new, larger touchscreen helps to close the gap a bit.

Honda also offers a few interesting hues for the sedan, like the Canyon River Blue seen on our test car.

The Accord's hybrid powertrain nets impressive fuel economy, with an EPA-estimated fuel economy of up to 48 mpg combined.

Honda also offers a turbocharged four-cylinder engine.

Screwdriver handles are sneakily well-designed for a variety of different uses.

I mean, who thinks about a screwdriver? But if you look at the handles, well, that’s a complicated shape. And it lets you do a lot. It’s comfortable to hold, but it won’t roll off your bench. And you can turn it one-handed or use both hands. And you get a couple of different grips. That’s a good design.

In this video, woodworker & tool enthusiast Rex Krueger walks us through the design history of the screwdriver and how it came to have such a distinctive and useful handle.

I grew up helping my dad out in the garage with all sorts of projects, mostly cars, and until watching this video, I had no idea that you could slip a standard wrench over the handle of a screwdriver as a cheater bar. 🤯 (via unsung)

Tags: design · Rex Krueger · video

“Podcast sloplords” are flooding the zone with AI-generated podcasts. By one count, almost 40% of new podcasts are written by AI chatbots and presented by “AI voice synthesizers [that] can sound eerily humanlike”.

Nowhere on XKCD’s map of The Contiguous 41 States does it say that you need to find the missing seven states, but that’s immediately where my mind went. And it was a little more challenging than I anticipated — all of New England is present & accounted for somehow?

The answer key is here, along with this tidbit:

The United States did have exactly 41 states for a few days in 1889, from the admission of Montana, the 41st state, on November 8, to the admission of Washington (the state, not DC), the 42nd state, on November 11.

See also this super-sized US map with 64 states.

And then after I wrote all of the above, I decided to check and of course I’d posted about this map before, soon after it came out. *sigh*

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