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
Anyone who has ever hit that wall on a long drive knows the feeling. The music stops helping. Coffee stops helping. Rolling the window down stops helping. At some point, the smartest move is no
For a long time, self-driving cars felt like one of those technologies that was always five years away. There was a lot of demo footage, a lot of press releases, a lot of "the future is here"
You're driving along minding your business, maybe halfway through a podcast, maybe thinking about literally nothing, and suddenly your car decides the apocalypse is happening. BAM. T
Car accidents are strange. One second you’re thinking about dinner or traffic or whether you remembered to answer that email, and the next there’s crunching metal, airbags, smoke ma
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
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
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
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