Touchscreens in Cars Have Been a Failure
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Fighting an Electric Vehicle Fire Is Still a New and Dangerous Concept
When an electric car catches fire, you can’t treat it like an internal combustion car. You need a lot more water and…
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…
Automakers Are Finally Starting to Catch Up with Tesla's Remote Updates
Back in 2012, the revolutionary Tesla Model S went into production, designed in such a way that much of the software…
The Original Chevy Volt Had a Genius Second Horn
One of the bright selling points of electric cars is that they’re silent, but that’s also a potential safety hazard for…
Everybody Is Designing Electric Car Chargers Wrong, But I Have an Idea
You’ve seen a normal electric car charging station, right? The charging infrastructure isn’t really there yet, but it’s…
Watch Tesla's Sentry Mode Catch Thieves Breaking In On Camera
Tesla’s new Sentry Mode, which is designed to use the car’s cameras to catch thieves in the act of breaking into the…
This Traffic-Ending Technology Would Have Worked, as Long as You Ignore the Reasons It Wouldn't
You can be forgiven if you don’t remember Arrivo, a shuttered Hyperloop-esque company founded by the former Hyperloop…
Toyota Patented a Fragrance Dispenser That Can Also Hit a Potential Car Thief With Tear Gas
Some of us still like to live by the motto that manual transmissions defer car theft—a good, if dying, sentiment. But…
Tesla Employees Call 'Bullshit' On Online Sales Claims Amid Retail Closure Chaos
Derek was working at home from his sales job at a Tesla store on February 28. He wanted to have a leg up on some leads…
Volkswagen Could Have the Best Electric Lineup—and It's All Thanks to Dieselgate
You may recall the other day we told you about a new Volkswagen concept electric dune buggy, one heavily inspired by…
Volvo's Testing Autonomous Buses in Singapore
Singapore may only be about 280 square miles in size and regularly beset by monsoon, but for those reasons and more…
Scientists Just Figured Out How to Weld Metal to Glass Which Could Revolutionize Car Manufacturing
This is one of those things that just doesn’t sound like it should work at all: Somehow melting together glass and…
Here's How Much the Tesla Model 3 Performance Saves In Fuel Costs Versus a Regular Car
Everybody likes to talk about how electric cars like the Tesla Model 3 are much more cost-efficient to own compared to…
You Can't Even See the Coolest Part of McLaren's 720S Spider
The 2020 McLaren 720S Spider is cool in many ways. It has a sci-fi instrument cluster, see-through buttresses and a powe…
Again With This Completely Self-Driving Shit from Elon Musk
Just in case you thought you could connect a couple of PalmPilots and cameras to your car and have it drive itself, I…
The BMW X1's Automatic Emergency Braking System Is Terrible: IIHS
Pedestrian crashes are one of the more urgent transportation problems, since if you’re a pedestrian and you’re hit by a…
Quick Question: At What Size Is an Engine 'Big?'
So in reading over the comments in the recent episode of Jason Drives, I was surprised to find something that was…
Jaguar Land Rover Brings Back The Inline-Six With Twin-Charged Hybrid Power
FACT: The inline-six is the best engine. I’d say V8s come a very close second, but nothing beats the silky smooth…
Ford Is Using Auto Tech to Keep Bed Hogs in Their Place
Lane hogs are the worst. Whether it’s someone holding down the fort five under the speed limit in the left-and-middle…