Hey Bob: My car has a fast-charging port, but my phone won’t charge from it, even though it charges normally from the charger at home. I’ve tried multiple cables, but no dice. However, my wife’s phone charges just fine from the same cable in the same port in the car that won’t charge my phone. What can I do? —Sincerely, Flummoxed in Finleyville.

Dear Flummoxed: You will never figure out what the problem is. You will ask AI bots, and they will tell you to check the cable. You will ask the phone’s manufacturer, and you will get an AI bot telling you to check the cable. When you tell the AI bot that you’ve used multiple cables, and anyway the cables all work with a different phone, you will be told that most cars don’t have the right voltage for charging phones, even though you already specifically said that your car has a fast-charging port labeled “fast-charging port.” Hundreds of thousands of people have this same problem, and they never get an answer. Your best bet is to throw your phone away and get a new one, and if that one doesn’t work, throw it away and get a new one, and keep doing that until you find one at random that does what it’s supposed to do. Hope this helps.