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Way.com is pleased to announce that it has been recognized as one of the winners of the 2026 MOTOR Top 20 Awards Competition.
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Way Repair Tech, the winning solution, is an AI-powered shop management and growth platform for independent auto repair shops. It brings repair orders, estimates, digital inspections, scheduling, inventory, invoicing, payments, and customer communication into one system. Parts pricing, labor times, and repair procedures are built in. Shops can send estimates, invoices, and receipts by text or email. Customers can approve work right from their phones. Everything is saved automatically, so no work is lost.
Way Repair Tech also goes beyond the back office. It is the only shop software with a built-in customer acquisition engine. Every shop gets a verified listing on the Way marketplace, where more than 11 million drivers already search for auto services. The Way Repair Tech AI assistant powers guided digital inspections and repair recommendations. The AI Receptionist answers every call, even after hours, so shops never miss out on new business. Native marketing tools send automated service reminders and win back emails to lapsed customers. They also promote local specials. No third-party add-ons are required.
“The Way Repair Tech team is honored to receive a 2026 MOTOR Top 20 Award,” said Arnold Gold, Executive Vice President, Way. “This recognition reflects our commitment to using advanced technology to solve real challenges for automotive repair shops. It inspires us to keep delivering software that helps shop owners not just run their businesses, but grow them.”
Way.com is honored to participate in the competition and receive this recognition from MOTOR Information Systems. Each year, the MOTOR Top 20 Awards highlight twenty new solutions that advance the automotive aftermarket. Winners are chosen by public online vote. This is the first time Way.com has received the honor. The 2026 winners will be recognized at AAPEX, November 3-5, 2026, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
To learn more about the MOTOR Top 20 Awards and view all the 2026 winners, visit: https://www.motor.com/motor-gps/top-20-awards/.
About Way.com
Way.com is the all-in-one car ownership platform. More than 11 million drivers use Way to book and manage parking, car washes, EV charging, and auto maintenance and repair from a single app. Way brings that same technology and consumer audience to auto repair shops and car washes. Its AI-powered software helps them run and grow their operations. Way.com is headquartered in Fremont, California. Learn more at way.com/auto-repair-software.
About MOTOR Information Systems
Founded in 1903, MOTOR Information Systems is one of the world's premier suppliers of automotive data. MOTOR empowers the industry with trusted, comprehensive solutions spanning service and repair information, parts data, labor times, vehicle configurations, and market insights. A Hearst company, MOTOR continues to drive innovation and efficiency across the automotive ecosystem. Learn more at MOTOR.COM.
Way.com Recognized as a 2026 MOTOR Top 20 Awards Winner
PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — Jury deliberations resumed for a fifth day Wednesday in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, after the judge questioned jurors one by one about a woman who was arrested and charged with filming them as they left the courthouse the previous day, Clancy's lawyer said.
A former labor and delivery nurse, Clancy doesn’t deny strangling her three young children at the family's Massachusetts home in 2023, but she says postpartum psychosis led to her actions. Prosecutors argue that she knew what she was doing. Clancy, 36, has pleaded not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility.
Clancy’s livestreamed trial has generated intense interest, with reporters and spectators packing the courtroom. The case has also sparked deep public divisions over her culpability and the issues around maternal mental health after childbirth.
The jurors told Judge William Sullivan on Tuesday morning that they were unable to reach a unanimous decision, but he instructed them to keep trying — a common instruction in criminal trials when juries say they're having trouble reaching a verdict.
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Dawn Light, 56, of Sutton, Massachusetts, was arraigned Wednesday at the same courthouse in Plymouth, south of Boston.
Surrounded by reporters while going to her car, Light was asked why she filmed outside the courthouse Tuesday.
“To see Lindsay. And I did see her. She was getting picked up by the van,” Light said.
Light’s attorney, Jennifer White, called it a “misunderstanding” and said Light, a retired nurse, was only trying to take a photo of Clancy and “not interact with the jurors.”
She was charged with intimidation of a witness, jurors or person furnishing information in connection with criminal proceedings. A not-guilty plea was entered on her behalf and she was released without having to post bail, but was ordered to stay away from the court, the jurors and any witnesses.
Assistant District Attorney Nicole Piacentini said Light was parked in a restricted area behind the courthouse and is accused of filming the jurors as they left court. Light told state police that she was waiting to film Clancy and denied recording jurors, however, troopers found video of jurors in her phone's deleted-files folder, Piacentini said.
“The sanctity of the judicial system is at risk because of her actions,” Piacentini told a judge during the arraignment.
Sullivan opened Wednesday’s proceedings with a warning to the courtroom about following his orders.
“Everybody should be well aware that the order and that statute is being enforced,” he said.
The order bars people from photographing or filming a jury until the case ends, and prohibits anyone from following, contacting, harassing or tampering with a jury.
Before deliberations resumed, Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, said that Sullivan had asked jurors about the woman’s arrest. The judge’s questions could not be heard from the gallery and he didn't disclose what he asked.
Jurors have heard testimony from relatives and doctors about how Clancy's mental health declined in the months before the killings and how her treatment included several medications and a short stay in a psychiatric hospital. Medical experts hired by the prosecution and the defense reached sharply different conclusions about her psychiatric state when she killed the children.
If jurors ultimately can’t agree on a verdict, the judge could declare a mistrial. Prosecutors would then have to decide whether to put Clancy on trial again, drop the charges or try to negotiate a plea deal with her lawyer.
After court ended Tuesday, Clancy’s attorney said it was a good sign that the jury kept working.
“The fact that they have not said that they’re done is very, very heartening,” Reddington said. “Obviously, they’re working very hard.”
If the jury decides Clancy was criminally responsible for her actions, it could convict her of either murder or manslaughter. If she is acquitted, a judge could still order her confined to a mental health facility if an evaluation determines that she poses a danger to the public.
Clancy killed the children with exercise bands in their home's basement, then jumped from a second-floor window. She remains paralyzed from the waist down. Her lawyers say she heard a voice telling her to kill the children so she could end her own life.
Associated Press writer Dave Collins in Hartford, Connecticut, contributed.
In this photo taken with a smartphone Dawn Light is questioned by reporters as she leaves her arraignment where she was charged with intimidation in connection with the Lindsay Clancy's murder trial in Plymouth, Mass., Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Leah Willingham)
Dawn Light attends her arraignment on a charge of intimidation in connection with the Lindsay Clancy's murder trial at Plymouth District Court in Plymouth, Mass., Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)
Judge William Sullivan speaks to the press and spectators in the courtroom during Lindsay Clancy's murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Mass., Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)
A diet soda sits in Lindsay Clancy's wheelchair as the jury resumes deliberations during her murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Mass., Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)
Lindsay Clancy reacts to news that a woman was arrested for recording images of the jury at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Mass., Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)
Lindsay Clancy looks to her lawyer Kevin Reddington as the jury keeps deliberating at her murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Mass., Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)
