​Of Course Driving While Texting With Google Glass Is Distracting

Researchers at the University of Central Florida have pitted traditional texting against voice texting using Google Glass and – surprise! – . The crew from UCF put 40 twenty-somethings into a simulator and tasked them with texting about a math problem using either smartphones or . When they weren't expecting...

May 2, 2025

​BMW Is Testing Autonomous Cars In China Because It's Nuts

If you want to put your autonomous technology through the ringer, China is the obvious choice (India comes in a close second). That's where BMW is headed, teaming up with China's largest search engine – – to test its self-driving tech in Beijing and Shanghai. The program is set to...

May 2, 2025

​Cadillac CT6 Is A Plug-In Hybrid With Streaming Video Interior Mirror

GM president Mark Reuss is showing off a host of new products to investors today, including the long-awaited Cadillac flagship. Details of the are beginning to trickle out and that includes a 0-60 time of under six seconds, a plug-in hybrid drivetrain, and an interior mirror that displays streaming video...

May 2, 2025

This Last Generation Of Human-Driven Cars Will Be Better Than Any Before

We're seeing a surprising amount of new, dramatic, and exciting stuff coming out of the Paris Auto Show — VW's remarkable , the , the new , and they're all production cars. In fact, I think we may in the beginning of the last generation of human-driven cars. Better enjoy...

May 2, 2025

​Tesla's 'Something Else' Is Supposedly Automated-Driving

We're pretty sure we've figured out the first half of. The D stands for "dual" motor, making the Model S all-wheel-drive. But the "something else" has kept us guessing, and as expected, it appears to be some version of auto-pilot. Bloomberg reports that Tesla will announce its first stab at...

May 2, 2025

A Driverless Audi RS7 Will Do A Lap At A German Touring Car Race

On October 19, at the Hockenheimring during a break in the racing before the final round of the German DTM Touring Car Championship, a self-driving Audi's hoping for a lap time of right around two minutes and expects to see 149 MPH. Other autonomous cars have been on tracks before...

May 2, 2025

​What Would You Do With Programmable Carbon Fiber?

Making intricate carbon fiber forms is an arduous, expensive process. And when they're complete, they stay that shape forever. But scientists at MIT have managed to literally bend carbon fiber – along with wood and plastic – to their will, and do it on-demand. The project was born out of...

May 2, 2025

Cops Use 'Find My iPhone' To Locate Crashed Car After OnStar Glitch

A woman who crashed into a ravine near Mount Hamilton, east of San Jose, CA, was found after 19 hours, not by the OnStar system in her Chevy Cruze, but by a cop who guessed the password on her iPad and discovered her location using the Find My iPhone app....

May 2, 2025

Apple Wants To Replace Your Key With Your iPhone And Proximity Sensors

Apple was just granted a patent that would use your iPhone and a -equipped car to unlock the doors, pop the trunk, and even flick on the seat heaters. And do it all without pulling your phone from your pocket. Rather than simply replacing your key fob with an app...

May 2, 2025

​Over 2 Million License Plates Were Scanned At The Mall Of America

A dozen cameras have been placed around our great monument to consumerism, the Mall of America, and over the last 3 months, they've managed to scan 2,275,357 license plates. Big Brother knows that you've got a serious Hotdog On A Stick problem. Of the 2+ million scanned plates, 12,216 were...

May 2, 2025

This Touch Screen Car Interior Is A Realistic Vision Of The Near Future

Today at the Los Angeles Auto Show, Audi showed off a big, sleek coupe called the that will be the source of all their future designs. But as good as the Prologue looks, the real story might just be inside. What does that concept say about the future of car...

May 2, 2025

Mercedes' 'Interior Of The Future' Will Have A Coffee Table

Cars probably won't fly in our lifetimes, but . That's pretty much a lock at this point. Nearly every automaker is working to advance their self-driving technology. But one thing that doesn't get much consideration is this: With no need for human control, what will the interior of the future...

May 2, 2025

Rinspeed Understands What Autonomous Cars Need To Be

I have to hand it to . The Swiss company that's usually best known for creating delightfully bonkers concept cars has a new concept for an . And, while it's still a bit bonkers, it realizes something about autonomous cars that most carmakers still haven't accepted: An first, a car...

May 2, 2025

Hey Rich Idiots! Come Buy Your Stupid $6,000 Lambo Phone

There's such a fine line between "I'm rich and own a very exclusive product" and "I'm a rich idiot who just got taken." That line is the Tauri 88 smartphone from Tonino Lamborghini, which costs $6,000. Even if they could, most people would never spend $6,000 on a smartphone. Then...

May 2, 2025

Here's The Replacement For Ford's Hated MyFordTouch Infotainment System

Clunky, badly designed and poorly performing have caused some of the biggest hits to automakers' quality and reliability rankings over the past few years. Perhaps chief among them was Ford's , one of the most loathed systems on the market. Today at an end-of-year event in Dearborn, Ford announced that...

May 2, 2025