Set the cruise control to 70 mph and glance at the navigation screen. It may insist the car is traveling at 67. Increase the cruise setting to 71. GPS grudgingly moves to 68. The two displays can sp
There was a time when changing the temperature in a car took half a second. You reached down, turned a knob, and somehow civilization survived. Now, in some cars, the same job feels like openin
A lot of used-car shopping happens in a weird little fog. You are scrolling listings, comparing photos, trying to decide whether two cars that look basically identical are actually identical, a
Most drivers assume they would know if something serious was wrong with their car. That seems fair. If a vehicle has a safety problem, surely someone would call, email, text, send a giant red enve
Here is a number that will probably annoy somebody you know. iPhone and Apple CarPlay users are more than twice as likely as Android users to video chat, scroll Instagram, stream Netflix or Hulu, and
A couple years ago, it honestly felt like gas cars were being sent to the retirement home. Every commercial was about EVs. Every automaker had a giant electrification plan. Politicians were thr
AI cars used to sound like movie nonsense. Then the 2026 Beijing Auto Show happened, and suddenly it did not feel so far away anymore. This year’s show was huge, with more than 1,400 vehicles
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
Volkswagen didn’t go for a full redesign with the ID.3, but it didn’t leave it alone either. The Neo is more of a proper update, keeping the same base from 2019 but trying to make the car
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.