The DRAM chip shortage is hitting cars in 2026 in a way most buyers never saw coming. You have probably heard about AI changing everything. What you probably have not heard is that it is quietly makin
Knowing how to jump-start a car is one of those skills everybody assumes they have until their battery actually dies. Then you are standing in a parking lot, hood up, staring at a pair of jumper cable
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
We drove from Austin to Dallas a few weeks ago, and somewhere around Waco I started paying attention to what was around us on I-35. Trucks. SUVs. Crossovers. More trucks. We kept counting fo
Nobody really thinks of a car as a computer until it starts acting like one. It unlocks from an app. It gets updates while parked. It remembers routes, phones, settings, payments, sometimes even wh
There was a time when buying a car was simple in one very specific way. What you drove off the lot was what you had. No surprises later. No upgrades showing up out of nowhere. No features quietly chan
Ford is not just updating cars; it is changing how they are put together in the first place. The scale of it is pretty large. By 2029, 70 percent of its global lineup will be refreshed. In North Am
Most parents probably assume car seats are already tested for everything that matters. That would be nice. But apparently, that has not fully been the case. A big federal update is finally c
For a while, the car industry talked like the future had already been decided. Gas was on the way out, EVs were the next obvious step, and hybrids were just the awkward in-between phase people would m
For years, electric trucks have had one big problem. They kept showing up with prices that made them feel less like work vehicles and more like luxury tech experiments. That is why Slate is getting