Is This What Your Car's Cockpit Will Look Like In 2025?

Audi says their is a pretty big deal. Set to debut on the all-new and then , it eliminates the center screen and gauge cluster for a display right in front of the driver. But what will instrumentation look like in 10 years? Audi has an idea about that too,...

May 1, 2025

Volvo Just Declared War On Winter With Technology

Was today really the start of spring? Could the end of this brutal and obscene winter finally be upon us? I almost feel like it's too good to be true, and that's why I'm glad is working on something that could put bad weather in its place. By now, you're...

May 1, 2025

Autonomous Cars Could Actually Make Car Sharing Work

like Zipcar have made living without a car in a city more manageable, but it's far from perfect. So what if, in the future, you borrow a driverless car to get where you're going? That might actually stop a lot of unnecessary cars from clogging the roads. reported on a...

May 1, 2025

What Car Has The Easiest Infotainment System To Use?

In-car infotainment systems are too damn hard to use these days. And that's not just for the Olds, that notion goes for everyone, as Patrick . But maybe it doesn't have to be this way. Maybe a brighter, easier future is ahead. And maybe you've got that infotainment system right...

May 1, 2025

Formula 1's Advanced Hybrid System Is Coming To Your Next Car

That may look like an ordinary Volvo S60, but it's far from it. Inside that handsome but inoffensive Swedish body is the same technology that helped make Formula One cars so fast in the last few years — the hybrid . That's good news if you like efficiency and speed....

May 1, 2025

This Is The Worst New Trend In Car Interior Design

I have accepted that center-mounted displays screens in cars, touch or otherwise, are not going anywhere. But why do so many of them look like they've just been tacked on as an afterthought? It looks terrible. While touring the cars on display at the , I was struck by how...

May 1, 2025

The GM Ignition Recall May Doom The Car Key Once And For All

Honestly, I can't even remember the last newer-ish car I drove that had an actual key instead of a fob and a push-button start. And in light of the , the end of car keys may come sooner than we expected. reports that GM may make the push-button start a...

May 1, 2025

Good Guy OnStar Dispatcher Helps Save Woman's Life

OnStar — it's not just anymore! (Does anyone remember that? No? Okay, forget it.) And one woman says she's glad she had the system on her car after an OnStar dispatcher found a clever way to save her life last year when she wasn't able to communicate. it went down...

May 1, 2025

The 'Sport Mode' Button Is Crap Most Of The Time

The "Sport Mode" button: Useless or fantastic? In this era where every function on your car is regulated by a computer, they have become an almost ubiquitous presence on everything from humble economy cars to high-end luxury and sports cars. But do they really add anything to the car? A...

May 1, 2025

You Can Now License A Robo-Car In ​California

After nearly a year of deliberation, the California DMV has released rules that govern autonomous vehicle testing in the state. And all it takes is a $150 application fee and a $5 million insurance policy. The rules are both clear and, shockingly for a state agency, seem to be rooted...

May 1, 2025

Google's New Self-Driving Car Doesn't Have A Steering Wheel

Google just unveiled its latest autonomous car, and it's a bulbous two-seater, with no steering wheel, gas or brake. This is the future, pod people. Unlike the Prius and Lexus hybrids in Google's fleet, this was designed from the ground-up as a complete reimagining of what transportation could be. It's...

May 1, 2025

What Do You Fear Most About The Google Car?

New technology is scary, and the idea of a car is certainly very new. So let's get our worst fantasies out of the way — what do you fear most about the Google Car? I love the idea of a car that drives me around. I've had enough soul-crushing highway...

May 1, 2025

The Best Google Car Photoshops

The is a sweet-looking car. Not sweet-looking like a high-boy gasser '55 Chev looks sweet, but sweet-looking like a buttercup filled with plucked daisies looks sweet. With such an expressive, scared widdle face, the photoshop opportunities abound. Show us your very best below. ...

May 1, 2025

Thermal Imaging Pit Stops Are The Best Pit Stops

Everyone loves Formula One's fancy because it shows the exact role that heat and friction play during racing. Also, it looks really, really neat. Now we get to see what it looks like when it's applied to touring car racing. This video is from an infrared camera shot of the...

May 1, 2025

Of Course Uber Is Planning To Make All Its Cars Autonomous

Less than 24 hours after Google showed off its , the CEO of Uber confirmed what we all assumed: its on-demand car service will go autonomous. Speaking at the Code conference – the same place Google's Sergey Brin debuted its squishing pod mobile – Uber's CEO Travis Kalanick said, "When...

May 1, 2025