This Tech Could Tell Cars When A Pedestrian Will Run Into The Street

For self-driving cars to work, they've got to do it all, and that includes navigating city streets where one of the biggest issues isn't just other cars, it's pedestrians. Humans have a sense of what a person will do based on their movements. Computers, not so much. Toyota has an...

May 3, 2025

Porsche Will Put Navigation Into Your Classic 911 If You Really Want It

I feel like if you're driving , your experience should be about the journey, not the destination. But if you really have somewhere to be and don't want to get lost, and are tired of fumbling with your smartphone when you're driving, Porsche has a new-school solution for your old-school...

May 3, 2025

Why Automakers Still Can't Get Bluetooth To Work

J.D. Power is out with , and while continue to be an issue, Bluetooth problems are now at the top of the list. The annual report catalogs the number of issues original owners of cars built in 2012 experienced over a year, and both voice-recognition and Bluetooth connectivity were the...

May 3, 2025

Ten Car Parts That Need To Be Totally Redesigned

Some of these parts have been more or less unchanged for the entire history of the car, so maybe it's time for a rethink Modern cars have all sorts of LCD displays in the gauge cluster and in the dashboard, and yet ? It just seems incongruous in the age...

May 3, 2025

​Honda, Nissan, And Toyota To Team Up On Self-Driving Car Tech

Japan's largest automakers are teaming up with the government, local universities, and electronics companies to make a concerted go at developing and standardizing self-driving car technology beginning later this year. The that the consortium is being spearheaded by the Japanese government, which is pitching it as more of a business...

May 3, 2025

What Technology Isn't On Cars But Should Be?

I know we all like to bitch and moan about how cars aren't simple, stripped-out, super light machines we can all fix in our own garages with a starter set of tools. I do it too. But a lot of new car technology is actually pretty useful, and successful in...

May 3, 2025

Mercedes Self-Driving Car Seems To Have Gone Rogue In San Francisco

First of all, I implore everyone to remain calm. Chances are, we'll all make it out of this mess okay, but only if we all just keep it together. What it wants is for us to panic, and we can't give it that. Here's the deal: the has been seen...

May 3, 2025

​Check Out This Brilliantly Simple Rethink Of Gauges

Screens are slowly usurping traditional gauges, but automakers still insist on using analog approximations despite the freedom of a digital canvas. The designers at Ustwo took a hard look at exactly what drivers need and , and it's brilliant, if not exactly sexy. Ustwo, which is best known for Frank...

May 3, 2025

​This Autonomous Audi Is About To Drive Itself Across The Country

The auto supplier Delphi is out to prove its autonomous car technology is up to snuff with a 3,500-mile trek that will take its heavily modified Audi SQ5 from San Francisco to New York. The Audi, a few engineers, and its "driver" are leaving SF on March 22, with plans...

May 3, 2025

​Elon Musk Thinks Drivers Could Be Outlawed In The Future

Elon Musk envisions self-driving cars being taken to their logical conclusion: crashes eliminated and drivers outlawed. After all, "You don't want a person driving a two-ton death machine," says Musk. [UPDATE] At the opening keynote of the NVIDIA GPU conference in San Jose, CA, Musk joined NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang...

May 3, 2025

​How Better WiFi Could Come At The Expense Of Driver Safety

Everyone wants better WiFi. It’s an easy thing for people to get behind, particularly legislators. But if a bi-partisan bill reintroduced by two Senators makes it into law, it could have a disastrous affects on one of the next great safety innovations. Senate Bill 424, the , is the latest...

May 3, 2025

​GM Thinks It Can Make Over $350 Million On LTE In Its Cars

General Motors has equipped over 30 of its models in North America with 4G LTE and plans to offer every 2016 model with the high-speed wireless data service. Why? Convenience. And money. Around $350 million worth, says GM, although it’s not saying exactly how. Chuck Stevens, GM’s executive VP and...

May 3, 2025

​HTC Rumored To Be Testing A System To Take On Android Auto

Phone maker HTC has been apparently working on a new system codenamed "Cello" that links up with everything from navigation to night vision in a bid to provide a much more robust alternative to . The release notes for the project , where the software was listed alongside "Sense Automotive"...

May 3, 2025

They Drove Cross-Country In An Autonomous Minivan Without GPS. In 1995.

(Think Delphi’s cross-country voyage in an autonomous is impressive? Try doing it with 90s tech, without GPS navigation, and in a salvaged Pontiac minivan. That’s what Carnegie Mellon research scientist Dean Pomerleau and then-Ph.D. student Todd Jochem did in 1995. Here’s the story of their journey as it appeared on...

May 3, 2025

The Renault Clio Gives You The Fake Engine Sounds Of Your Choice

We’ve been talking about speaker engine sounds a little bit lately, thanks to the news that the will get that system for the 2016 model year. Everybody on the right way to do this, but I think Nissan’s corporate cousin Renault is already doing it right. For the past few...

May 3, 2025