Car Tech

The company is researching actuators in seats that could stimulate muscles to avoid the health risks associated with sitting for too long.

Drag race, slalom, and braking tests show how much better winter tires perform in snowy conditions, and their limitations in the summer.

Audi's next-generation infotainment system features new hardware and processor speeds ten times quicker than today's system.

A speakerless audio system from Continental and Sennheiser uses actuators within car interior surfaces to create the frequencies that create sound.

Lamborghini will integrate voice commands for vehicle functions via Amazon's voice-recognition system.

Hyundai is teaming with Uber to create flying taxis and self-driving pods.

The visor can block parts of the driver's vision where the driver's vision could be affected by sunlight.

A look at the chassis systems that make the 2020 Porsche Cayenne Turbo S E-Hybrid so fun to drive.

For those with traditional internal-combustion engines in their cars, there's no such thing as "one-pedal" driving. For those with experience driving a plug-in hybrid or purely battery-electric car, it's a unique benefit. To explain what exactly one-pedal driving is, Jason Fenske of Engineering...

Instead of the warning lights normally used by blind spot monitors, this new system can show you the full image of the road on either side of your vehicle.

When it enters production in 2020, Rivian's R1T battery-electric pickup truck might have a different tailgate design to what you'd normally find on a pickup. A patent filed by Rivian in the World Intellectual Property Organization database shows a tailgate with two methods for lowering. One method...

Pirelli's Cyber Tire will be able to warn other cars about slippery road conditions thanks to 5G and vehicle-to-infrastructure technologies.

When heading off-road, it's easy to get distracted and forget your way home, especially if there are no signs to guide you. Ford has come up with a technology to alleviate the issue. Called Satnav Breadcrumbs, the feature leaves a virtual pin roughly every 650 feet along the driven path so that it...

In a world where cars are able to drive themselves, the question of how they will be refueled often comes up. In the case of electric cars, we've already seen some solutions for automatic charging, and now Volkswagen has thrown its hat into the ring. The automaker on Thursday unveiled a concept for...

The blades can defrost a windshield in just four minutes, according to Lincoln.

We're now less than two months away from the redesigned Escalade's reveal.

In the fall of 1959, Turin, Italy, staged its 41st Salone dell’Automobile, a major international auto show featuring 65 automakers. The star cars of the show were the Maserati 5000 GT and the Ghia Selene concept. In addition to car companies, nearly 500 other exhibitors took part, including...

Audi will replace knobs and buttons in future vehicles with more screens and augmented reality.

The service is on a trial basis at present and open to select users only.

Sometimes, water isn't enough. The Tesla braintrust earlier this year filed a patent application in the U.S. for debris-cleaning lasers, which could be used on Tesla's driver-assistance hardware susceptible to weather and dirt. The patent was first reported on by Car and Driver in November...