Most people have seen their car’s VIN number a hundred times and never once cared about it. It’s just... there. Sitting at the bottom corner of the windshield collecting dust while
Jump starting a car used to feel almost idiot-proof. Battery dies, somebody pulls up with jumper cables, hoods go up, clamps go on, everybody stands around pretending they fully understand elec
If your car is old enough to have a few parking-lot scars and one mystery rattle you’ve decided to ignore, go look at the headlights. There’s a good chance they’re not clear a
Driver assistance systems are everywhere now, but figuring out which ones actually work well can still be surprisingly difficult. That’s why the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
If you haven’t looked at your car insurance bill in a while, go find it. Seriously. The average full-coverage policy in the U.S. is now over $2,000 a year, and in some places it feels much worse
Nobody thinks they need a car emergency kit until they’re standing on the shoulder of a highway at 11 pm with a dead battery and a phone that’s about to die too. It happens more often t
Slate kind of came out of nowhere last year with a very clear idea. A cheap electric truck, under $20k with incentives and no extra fluff. That alone was enough to get people paying attention fast. Si
Okay, this one feels like something from a movie, except it is already being shown in real life. A new system shown at the Beijing Auto Show can check whether a driver has been drinking through a c
Some cars barely leave the driveway anymore. One owner works from home. Another keeps a second car for weekends. Someone else leaves town for a few weeks and comes back expecting the car to start like
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