Toyota Is Doubling-Down On Humans

Toyota announced the development of its new driver assistance technology at CES today called Toyota Guardian, which was modeled after the way pilots fly modern fighter jets to back up driver inputs with advanced vehicle safety features. As Toyota describes Guardian, it’s a fully autonomous safety system that can scale...

Sep 13, 2025

Confirmed: This Is the End

Look, we at Jalopnik aren’t here to scare you, and we’re not a front for a scheme selling underground bunkers for . Definitely none of that going on. But we do like to look at things realistically, and this “” concept realistically look like something from the War of the...

Sep 13, 2025

Hyundai's Future Heads-Up Displays Could Tell You More Than You Ever Wanted to Know

As cars become rolling computers , automakers aren’t stopping the tech at safety sensors and complicated infotainment screens. The windshield is up for grabs, too, and has ideas for it—ideas that include augmented reality and telling a driver about nearby activities in real time. Hyundai and its new partner WayRay...

Sep 13, 2025

The Truth About Brake Pad Replacement in Teslas And Other EVs

The day after Christmas, Tesla CEO Elon Musk . Brake pads on Teslas would “literally never” need to be replaced, he said, thanks in part to the electric car’s regenerative brakes cutting way down on brake pad use compared to a conventional car. That seemed a little too good to...

Sep 13, 2025

Of Course That Stupid Tesla-On-Autopilot Hitting A Robot Video Is Very Likely Bullshit

I’m sure by now you’ve seen the and about how a “” drove into and severely injured an innocent robot from the Russian company Promobot during CES in Philadelphia. While it may be fun to think of this as one of the historic first cases of robot car-on-humanoid robot violence...

Sep 13, 2025

Even Tesla Seems to Be Getting Real About Self-Driving Car Tech in 2019

You’d barely even know it, but just happened this week. In the last couple years the big technology trade show was very much a car show, where automakers and startups alike showed off the latest in hopeful self-driving systems always billed as just “a few years away.” In 2019? Barely...

Sep 13, 2025

Elon Musk Tweets Again About Tesla Roadster Rocket Engines But He's Going In A Weird Direction

You might recall that around six months ago, that he was planning an option package for the next Tesla Roadster that would replace the rear seats with equipment for a SpaceX-developed system of rocket thrusters. Initially, Musk described the system as “dramatically improve acceleration, top speed, braking & cornering,” and...

Sep 13, 2025

This Amazing Chevy Video from 1935 Uses an Abandoned House to Explain Why Strong Car Frames Are Good

The Internet can be a terrible wasteland of a place, but every so often, you stumble on some real gems. Recently, I’ve fallen down a rabbit hole of neat old car videos from back in the 1930s and 40s—including a ten minute long video titled “No Ghosts”. The premise of...

Sep 13, 2025

Here's What's New and Awesome Inside the 2020 Porsche 911

The may not be a huge revolution over the car it replaces (they still put the engine in the back of these, one hears) but under the skin it’s a totally new car. That’s true inside it, too. Let’s climb behind the wheel of the new Porsche 911—virtually, of course....

Sep 13, 2025

BMW Teamed With The North Face to Make a Tent With Tweels

The North Face is aiming to make obsolete with a new fabric called “Futurelight” that is waterproof, but still breathable. In order to show off the capabilities of such a product, co-developed with BMW’s Designworks team, TNF arrived at CES with an ultra lightweight two-wheeled camping trailer with a carbon...

Sep 13, 2025

If You Can Hack Into This Tesla Model 3, It's Yours

Pwn2Own is a hacking conference with a very simple premise: Hack into the device, and it’s yours. All sorts of computers and browsers and devices have been featured over the years, but for the first time ever, there will be a car. Specifically, . Hackers will try their best to...

Sep 13, 2025

Here's Why NASCAR Still Uses a Four-Speed Gearbox

Drifting is intentionally hard on a car. You’ll be tearing down, a hundred miles an hour, pull the handbrake, your wheel speed drops to zero, then bam, back to a hundred, clutch kick, zero to a hundred again in a fraction of a second. To survive a pro drift run...

Sep 13, 2025

Porsche Is Smart for Making the 2020 911 Hybrid-Ready

Through all of the rumors of the new going hybrid, I finally got a chance to sit down with Porsche itself to get a straight yes or no answer. And that answer is technically yes, there can be a hybrid 911. The stage is set for one, anyway. During a...

Sep 13, 2025

Uber Is Considering Autonomous Scooters and it's Probably as Dumb as You're Thinking

When it comes to innovations nobody’s been really asking for, right after self-masticating ham, there has to be the idea of self-driving bikes and scooters. I mean, I guess self-driving anything has some sort of appeal, but when it comes to scooters and bikes, why lobotomize out the one aspect...

Sep 13, 2025

Decoding the New Toyota Supra's BMW Engine

The new is, under the skin, a BMW. As such, it has a BMW engine, and that means a confusing series of letters and numbers strewn together that just have to mean something, though it’s never clear what. Thankfully, though, we have a neat explanation of the B58M30 01 courtesy...

Sep 13, 2025