Automotive safety technology might save your life… but it might not save you much money on your car insurance, study finds
Research organizations such as the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety are now compiling evidence that automotive safety technology features like blind-spot monitoring and lane departure...
Vintage car with no Bluetooth? The Amazon Echo Auto could be a good solution.
Amazon announced a new device last week, the Amazon Echo Auto, that could expand smartphone connectivity options to those of us who drive older cars...
‘Off-road cruise control?’ Ford’s new Trail Control feature for the F-150 Raptor actually sounds like a good idea—but maybe they should position it a little differently
If you’re like me, you use cruise control as a means of restraint in higher-speed situations, to try to keep the velocity a little lower...
Fear the pinch: The market for technology to keep us safe from the hazards of automotive power windows is growing 10 percent per year, report says.
Infographic: Technavio. If you’re like me, you sometimes feel a little ambivalent about all the technology that, while convenient and helpful in many ways, can...
So which U.S. automaker might be getting ready to make motorcycles with enhanced location-based services?
Dodge Tomahawk concept motorcycle. Photo: Elambeth (posted to Wikimedia Commons). Yesterday, a technology company called Comtech Telecommunications Corp issued a press release boasting about a...
Connected-vehicle tech company Autotalks scores a reported ‘several million dollar’ investment from Hyundai.
Photo: Hyundai media center. In April we ran a story on Autotalks, an Israel-based semiconductor company focused on the vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications...
Does size matter when it comes to safety? MINI Hardtop 2 Door bags IIHS safety award for criteria that include ‘nearly avoiding’ a collision, BMW Group says.
Photo: BMW Group media website. When it comes to factors that affect crashworthiness as well as lighting and driver assist technologies, size might not matter...
Drivers of new Cadillacs will soon be able to say, ‘Look, Ma—no hands!’
Photo: GM media website. Soon, when your baby drives off in a brand new Cadillac, he or she might not even have hands on the...
To sell the new Focus lineup, Ford is asking Europeans to talk to a sign.
Photo: Ford Media Center. Although Ford announced in April that that they will discontinue U.S. sales of all of the Focus lineup except the Focus...
A (partially, I hope) driverless future and the emergence of ‘autonomous car as marketing platform’
Not long after we published our post yesterday on what the “money trails” of the automotive and financial industries are telling us about the future...
BMW launches wireless plug-in hybrid charging for German market, with other regions soon to follow.
Photo: BMW Group PressClub Global. The BMW Group announced today that a touchless charging station is now available as a lease option in Germany for...
New Toyota Research Facility to Test Automated Driving Scenarios ‘Too Dangerous for Public Roads’
Photo: Toyota media website. Toyota revealed Thursday that one of the automaker’s research and development divisions, the Toyota Research Institute (TRI), is building a new,...
Autonomous Vehicles and Smart Highways: Author Bennecke’s Fictional Vision Sorts Out the Worst—And Best—Possible Futures
Especially after a wave of tragic incidents, opinions of self-driving cars and other automated transportation technologies are, to say the least, ambivalent. This holds true...
“Alexa, Warm Up My Car”: Kia Adds Amazon Alexa Remote Voice Controls to Several Models
Kia Optima Hybrid. Photo: Kia media website. If you’ve been waiting anxiously to be able to control your Kia from an Alexa-powered Amazon device, your...
Mazda Scores Innovation Award for SKYACTIVE-X Compression-Ignition Engine
From our perspective, there are two key ways that Mazda is strongly distinguishing itself within the automotive today’s automotive industry The first is car model...
Get Ready to Say Buh-Bye to That Lead-Acid Battery in Your Car—if Mazda Has Their Way
Photo: Towel401 (Wikimedia commons). Mazda Motor Corporation, ELIIY Power Co., Ltd. and Ube Industries, Ltd. have agreed to jointly develop lithium-ion batteries for use in...