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
Here’s the part that feels almost unbelievable: for decades, car safety was built around a body that looked mostly like an average man. Not a small woman. Not a pregnant woman. Not the person
Car design used to move slowly. You sketch, pass it on, wait, and then come back and refine it. GM still starts the same way, with designers drawing by hand. From there, though, things move much fa
Long drives don’t usually come with backup plans when things go wrong. If you’re stuck in traffic and can’t pull over, you’re just out of options. Seres thinks that gap is wort
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
A lot of people hear “AI is changing the car industry” and assume it means smarter voice assistants, self-driving features, or dashboards that talk too much. But there is a less obvious
There was a time when opening your garage door from your car was the simplest thing in the world. Press a button, door goes up. That was it. No apps, no subscriptions, no thinking required.
Concept cars are what happen when car companies stop being practical for a minute. No one is worrying about cupholders, resale value, or whether the average buyer will understand the design. It is
It started with a story that was hard to shake. A child died after being caught in the power seat mechanism of a Hyundai Palisade. The seat kept folding and sliding without properly sensing contact
Some cars are remembered for their engines. Others for their shape. But every now and then, it is the wheels that people never forget. Car design is funny like that. You can have a beautiful body,