The Most Googled Cars Of 2014

Google just published its year-end "Trends" reports; outlining what people searched for in 2014. Here's the breakdown of what people wanted to know about in the "cars" category, and where they were searching from. Regional Interest represents "search volume relative to the highest point on the map, which is always...

May 2, 2025

Mercedes To Unveil Exciting New Autonomous Egg-Car Concept

In the future, we will all own giant eggs, and the eggs will drive themselves. Maybe. That's what could happen if the vision of tomorrow set to be unveiled by Mercedes-Benz at next month's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas comes true. No details on this autonomous concept car have...

May 2, 2025

​Volkswagen Put Some Big Ass Touchscreens In The Golf R

We're champing at the bit to get our paws on , but before it's unleashed in the U.S., VW used it as a platform to show off some massive touchscreens, a new interface, and gesture controls, because… uh… CES? The Golf R Touch concept is basically the standard Golf R...

May 2, 2025

Autonomous Audi A7 Drives From SF To Vegas, Probably Now Counting Cards

Audi's autonomous A7 Sportback named 'Jack' has successfully completed the 560 mile drive from San Francisco to Las Vegas. Audi tried last year to have a robot car drive to CES in Vegas, but a driver was forced to take over. This year, however, the car pulled it off and...

May 2, 2025

​Audi Now Has Its Own Branded Smartwatch And Tablet

The consumer electronics convergence is complete. Audi has developed its own tablet for backseat passengers in the Q7 and partnered to create its own smartwatch. It's lifestyle branding in the digital age. Part of Audi's piloted driving A7 prototype is smartwatch integration, allowing drivers to call the car from their...

May 2, 2025

NASA And Nissan Are Teaming Up To Make Robo-Cars Of The Future

Now that everyone's getting on the autonomous car bandwagon, each manufacturer needs its own angle. Audi takes its cars to the , Mercedes makes its cars look like , and Google's cars just have a . Nissan, however, has gone with the betterment-of-humanity route, and just teamed up with NASA....

May 2, 2025

World's Biggest Supplier Plans Cars With Full Autopilot By 2025

They may not look like neon silver bean-eggs like the , but the autonomous cars are coming, and they're coming soon. How soon? If Bosch gets their way, then cars will have full autopilot by 2025. This matters because Germany's Robert Bosch GmbH happens to be the largest automotive parts...

May 2, 2025

The Designer Behind Nest, iPod Could Design Your First Self-Driving Car

Self-driving cars have to be easy if they're going to catch on. Yes, they have to be safe, but they also need to be approachable. Tony Fadell – the creator of the Nest thermostat and one of the guys behind the iPod and iPhone – might be the man to...

May 2, 2025

​This Is Microsoft's Vision For The Future Of DIY Repairs

Microsoft showed off a new faceputer today, and while I could quibble about the real-world usability of strapping a honking piece of plastic to your head or the misuse of the word "hologram", I'm way more intrigued with the possibility of someone telling me how I'm screwing up my suspension...

May 2, 2025

​Part Of The Autobahn Is Being Developed For Self-Driving Cars

Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz have made it clear that or other companies to develop self-driving technology or the data that's involved, and now the German government is stepping in to facilitate things with a plan to establish a section of the autobahn for autonomous vehicle testing. Germany's Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt...

May 2, 2025

​Uber Is Opening A Robotics Lab To Start Work On Self-Driving Cars

Uber is reportedly building a robotics research lab in Pittsburgh, PA – home of Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute – to "kickstart autonomous tax fleet development." So it begins... : Here's , which states: Uber and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) are announcing today a strategic partnership that includes the creation...

May 2, 2025

​Ford Wants To Let You Open Your Car With Your Eyeballs

A patent filed by Ford details how it could use finger prints, retinal scans, and voice recognition to make your car keys obsolete. Sounds good. But what about security? The patent, , outlines a system that uses a smartphone (or Personal Communication Device) to connect to a car's controller over...

May 2, 2025

America's Transportation System Could Be Terrifying By 2045, Feds Say

Imagine Los Angeles-like traffic in Omaha, Nebraska, or getting passed by train after train as you wait at a Long Island Rail Road stop because the cars are too full, or shipments of food unable to get where it needs to go thanks to endless highway gridlock. This is how...

May 2, 2025

​Feds Want Technology To Fix Transportation Problems They've Created

The Department of Transportation is out with . It's also telling that U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx sat down with Google's Eric Schmidt to introduce the report, because the feds are hoping technology is going to pick up the ball they keep dropping. Reading and it's clear that the DOT...

May 2, 2025

Volvo Is Going To Let The Actual Public Operate Its Autonomous Cars

Volvo announced this morning that it's about to let 100 real, actual, normal members of the public sit behind the wheel of new — and not drive them. That's because these cars are completely autonomous, and only in the virtual hands of the inept and mechanical-ham-fisted public can robo-cars truly...

May 2, 2025