Automakers Are Finally Starting to Catch Up with Tesla's Remote Updates

Back in 2012, the revolutionary went into production, designed in such a way that much of the software and hardware functionality could be tweaked, fixed or updated remotely. Seven years later, the rest of the industry is just starting to catch up. Tesla had a really good reason to develop...

Sep 13, 2025

Volvo Wants You to Stop From Texting While Driving by Monitoring You With an In-Car Camera [UPDATED]

Volvo is very committed to the idea of ending all fatalities in cars it builds, and it’s even willing to watch you like a hawk and snitch on you to make that happen. it will employ in-car cameras to detect when a driver is drunk or distracted, and its cars...

Sep 13, 2025

New York City Is Getting An Autonomous Shuttle. Would You Use It?

New York City is getting its first autonomous shuttle, as self-driving company will debut autonomous shuttles in the Brooklyn Navy Yard sometime in the second quarter of 2019, as and other outlets. Optimus Ride, a Boston-based company spun off from MIT, focuses on geo-fenced, fixed-route shuttles. Unlike AVs being tested...

Sep 13, 2025

I Have Seen the Future of Mobility and It Is These Dudes Moving a Couch With Two E-Scooters

Moving sucks, and everyone knows it sucks less with a buddy around to help. Luckily, this duo in St. Louis had both the brawn and the brains to get a full size couch moved from A to B without all that pesky truck rental. Ivana Iness Bosnjak posted this video...

Sep 13, 2025

Beat The Big City Traffic By Just Becoming A Human Meteor

Yesterday on Twitter a few people noticed a stream of light above the evening Los Angeles skyline. Some called it a UFO, others thought it was a meteor. Either way, it was seen all over the city flying down directly into downtown, some even thought it hit a building. In...

Sep 13, 2025

Fighting an Electric Vehicle Fire Is Still a New and Dangerous Concept

When an electric car , you can’t treat it like an internal combustion car. You need a lot more water and you can’t store the car afterwards in a similar manner, either. Dealing with EV fires is something that more and more firefighters are going to have to learn as...

Sep 13, 2025

Touchscreens in Cars Have Been a Failure

I’ve been trying to be more positive these days, after a rough few years, though that positivity takes a hit every time I get into a car with a touchscreen. That’s because touchscreens in cars are bad and even dangerous—a failed experiment. Admittedly, we’ve had some mixed opinions on touchscreens...

Sep 13, 2025

Firefighters Drop Smoking BMW i8 Into a Giant Tub of Water

When a at a showroom in the Dutch province of Brabant began smoking yesterday morning, firefighters there had just the solution. Google translates the Facebook post thusly: This morning an electric car in a showroom started smoking. Due to quick acting from the employees of the garage and the fire...

Sep 13, 2025

And This Is Why Car Keys Are Still The Best

Near the end of about its new P30 smart phone in Paris earlier today, and just before announcing a pearl pink glamour case embedded with Swarovski crystals, Huawei CEO Richard Yu mentions that the new phone is constructed to work as an entry key for your car. While it would...

Sep 13, 2025

The 2020 Ford Explorer's 'Mindful Mode' Sounds Goofy But I Wish Every Car Had It

I had to double check that the describing the vehicle’s Calm Screen, dubbed “Mindful Mode,”wasn’t an April Fools’ Day joke. But after confirming it’s real, I really like the idea of being able to strip superfluous information from your gauge cluster with a few clicks. The Calm Screen basically just...

Sep 13, 2025

The New Ford Bronco Might Actually Have Better Removable Doors Than Jeep

Everybody’s pretty much convinced that the will be the enthusiasts are hoping for, complete with . Some Ford patent images making the rounds right now could be taken as further evidence of that, and the design is actually exceptionally clever. published on Jan. 30, 2019 and discovered by this week...

Sep 13, 2025

What Happens When We Become Alarmingly Comfortable Driving with Cameras and Screens?

Practically every new car on the road today is sold with some sort of camera apparatus or parking assistant, like a backup camera, one of those fancy bird’s-eye-view setups, proximity sensors and now, camera-based rear-view mirrors. I’m increasingly warming up to these things—but I wonder if I should be...

Sep 13, 2025

Tesla Autopilot Will Now Change Lanes With Zero Driver Input

Last November, Tesla introduced Navigate on Autopilot technology, which will use the car’s navigation system to calculate when lane changes are necessary for seamless onramp to offramp highway driving. The system was a step in the right direction if toward autonomous cars, but still required an attentive driver to...

Sep 13, 2025

The 2019 Audi E-Tron's Range Is Pretty Disappointing At 204 Miles

When Audi first unveiled specs for the all-electric SUV, its claimed zero-to-60 time of 5.5 seconds was pretty impressive. But now that we’ve learned about its range? We’re less impressed. Despite some , Audi has announced the start of E-Tron deliveries in May. It also provided the car’s EPA-estimated...

Sep 13, 2025

Here's How the Koenigsegg Jesko's 1,600 Horsepower Twin-Turbo V8 Is Even Better Than the Regera's

The is blazingly fast and . Which means you or I won’t be getting our hands on it, probably ever. We can still awe at the mechanical bits, though, including what might be Koenigsegg’s last 100 percent internal combustion motor. Our pal Jason Fenske gets into the details in...

Sep 13, 2025