Summer is just around the corner in most parts of the world, and the impending arrival of the season’s first month is reason enough to start making vacation plans and drawing up the routes to be taken this year. For decades now, vacations in general and summer ones in particular have...
Over just a decade or so, the auto industry radically changed thanks to the rise of the electric vehicle (EV) in all its forms. And with the advent of this new type of car came new businesses, new ideas and, most of all, new needs. For customers, switching from an internal combustion car (ICE) to...
As the auto industry inches closer and closer to the official rollout of self-driving vehicles, the current generation of drivers witness the first versions of the technologies that will shape our future. And in this respect, there’s no other system more advanced and closer to full...
When the new Aston Martin DB11 was introduced in 2016, it brought with it an innovative system meant to generate enough downforce for the car to keep to the road at high speeds. Since then, the system has evolved to be included on DB11’s offshoot DBS Superleggera, including the recently...
Starting the end of the first week of April, Tesla owners in the United States have begun receiving an update for the carmaker’s Navigate on Autopilot, one supposed to make for “a more seamless active guidance experience.” In reality, the update is nothing more than another step...
In its 2017 Crime report, the FBI revealed there were 773,139 thefts of motor vehicles reported in the United States. That amounted to a financial loss of around $6 billion, with an average loss per stolen vehicle of $7,708. No figures are yet available for 2018 but don’t expect to see the...
Airport parking has long been a challenge for both the airports themselves and the people who use them, mostly because it all boils down to two things: the lack of space, and the long term parking necessities. Whereas there is not much that can be done about the long term parking necessities of...
As per its own claims, Toyota has been researching automated driving technologies since the 1990s. But aside for some otherwise very useful assistance systems developed by the Japanese, no true self-driving car was ever presented by Toyota, or any other carmaker for that matter. Since the 1990s,...
The rapid rise to power of the electric drivetrain was until recently only marginally regarded as a thing likely to take hold. Although most carmakers have been talking about EVs for years, most actually did little to convince the industry this is the way they’ll eventually go. That changed...
Try driving, not riding Despite the wide variety of tips and trick, and even gadgets, it's likely we'll never be able to cure motion sickness. So use whatever trick works for you, in the hope that at least the symptoms are alleviated. Despite the wide variety of tips and trick, and...
The first gasoline engine was built 140 years ago, but the unit still shares its operating principle with the power plants of today. The central idea is that gas is still introduced into the combustion chamber with just the right amount of air, and then it's ignited by a spark. Some things...
As the reports showing the dire state of our planet continue to surface, most of the industries that keep humanity running are trying to find the culprit and eliminate it from the equation. In the auto world, one of the main targets of this environmental purge is fuel, especially diesel. Already a...
There is no such thing as one size fits all, especially when it comes to cars. America is a land where the automobile gave ultimate freedom to the free. It’s a place where one can drive across the continent if he so desires. Cargo capacity is one of the most important metrics for those in...
Using the Sun’s power to generate electricity for cars is not a new idea. Carmakers have toyed with the concept ever since the 1950s when a so-called Sunmobile was presented in Chicago. For various reasons, the technology never stuck, and solar powered cars are seen as eccentric builds of...
A sight dreaded by drivers even more than traffic policemen, speed cameras have not been around for a long time, yet they have shortly become one of the favorite pub, media and home topics for drivers and non-drivers alike. Are they useful? Are they accurate? Should they be used? Do they interfere...
