A third brake light is remarkably easy to ignore. It sits in the rear window or above the tailgate, performs one job and receives considerably less attention than the lamps surrounding it. That ano
Speed has become ridiculously easy to buy. A modern electric crossover can pin its passengers to the seats while carrying three children, a week’s shopping and a suspicious amount of sports equi
Select Reverse, walk behind the car and one white lamp comes on. The other stays dark. The rear light clusters look symmetrical. Both contain clear and red sections. Surely one bulb has fail
Watch the back of two cars at the same intersection and you might notice something odd. The first car hits the brakes, then one of its red brake lights starts flashing. The second car does the
A self-driving car getting confused in a parking lot is annoying. A self-driving car getting confused near a fire truck, police cruiser, or ambulance is something else entirely. That is
There was a time when changing the temperature in a car took half a second. You reached down, turned a knob, and somehow civilization survived. Now, in some cars, the same job feels like openin
Roundabouts are supposed to be the cure. That is the whole pitch. Fewer hard stops, smoother traffic flow, less waiting around at a red light while nobody moves, less chaos than a traditional i
Quick answer? You're fine. Nobody is getting arrested for flicking on the cabin light to dig through a glovebox at midnight. Not in any of the fifty states. There simply isn't a law on the boo
Most people think of a car as something that reacts to what is right in front of it. See the brake lights, then brake. See the danger, then respond. V2X changes that whole idea. It lets a ca
Turn signals are one of the earliest car safety features. Early 1900s, some cars had mechanical arm "trafficators" that popped out of either side to show a turn. In 1908 Italian inventor Alf