Think back to the cars on your wall when you were a kid. Those posters held so much promise. Freedom of the open road, wind whipping through the window, incredible speed, all right there on your bedro
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
America's full of roads with terrifying names. Dead Man's Curve. Tail of the Dragon. Shades of Death Road. Blood Alley. You'd think one of those would be the deadliest 10-mile stretch in t
Car theft has been around as long as street parking. Before cars, people stole horses. In 18th-century Pennsylvania, horse thieves got branded with the letters H and T on their foreheads after being s
Stuck in traffic, watching someone cut you off for the third time in five minutes, it's pretty easy to assume your state is full of the worst drivers on earth. But some states actually are worse t
Remember those viral videos about roads that generate electricity while you drive? Roads with glowing LED lights and surfaces that melt snow automatically? That was solar roadways, and back in 2014 it
The Takata airbag crisis remains one of the biggest safety failures in automotive history. It started with a Honda recall back in 2008 and has since snowballed into more than 67 million recalled airba
EVs and winter don't always play nice. Batteries hate the cold, cabin heaters suck down power like crazy, and those perfect range numbers from the EPA start looking like fairy tales once temps dro
Most people don't think much about tires until they need new ones. But the type matters a lot more than just grabbing whatever's on sale. All-season and all-terrain are what most folks end
Electric cars have come a crazy long way since the late 2000s when they were basically just weird experiments on wheels. Now they're everywhere, and honestly for good reason. Most modern EVs can g