Cars

To the untrained eye, it looks like almost any other New York Police Department cruiser combing the city’s streets—but this squad car has just as much brains as it does brawn. It is the department’s prototype “smart car,” outfitted with the latest gadgets in public safety. It has two infrared monitors mounted on the trunk Continue Reading →

If you’re looking forward to the day when electric cars rule the roads, you probably won’t like what the US Department of Energy has to say. The organization’s Energy Information Administration (EIA) is forecasting that the vast majority of cars will still use gasoline in the year 2040. According to the group’s 2014 Annual Energy Continue Reading →

Ford believes that cars of the future will be able to talk to each other and nearly drive themselves, and on Thursday it revealed a major research project that’ll help its vehicles get there. At an event last week, Ford unveiled the Fusion Hybrid research vehicle, a modified version of its Fusion Hybrid that’s able Continue Reading →

Venturi Automobiles has teamed up with Leonardo DiCaprio to form the tenth and final team on the grid for Formula E. And just like that, the world’s first fully-electric racing series is born. DiCaprio and Gildo Pallanca Pastor, the founder of the Monaco-based EV manufacturer, are just the latest big names to join the series. Continue Reading →

“A theft is a theft.” These are words that many a lawyer has used to justify condemning a thief to a sentence in the clink. They are also the words of a police officer in Chamblee, Ga., after a man was caught in the alleged commission of a heinous crime. Kaveh Kamooneh partook of 5 Continue Reading →

Volvo is to introduce 100 driverless cars on to public roads as part of the world’s first large-scale autonomous driving pilot. The cars will drive in normal, everyday road conditions, surrounded by pedestrians and other traffic, and will even be able to self-park, as the Swedish car-maker (which is now under Chinese ownership) attempts to Continue Reading →

The 2014 International CES (January 7-10 in Las Vegas) is around the corner. Thinking back to last year’s show, there were a few trends that stood out: The Goldilocks Screen-size Strategy If the 4″ iPhone screen was too small and the 5.7″ Samsung Galaxy Note screen was too big, perhaps the 4.7″ HTC One screen Continue Reading →

Half of all vehicle infotainment systems capable of smartphone-integration will use Apple’s upcoming “iOS in the Car” by 2018, according to a report by ABI Research. The iOS in the Car user interface, expected out next year, links Apple’s iOS 7 mobile operating system with vehicle infotainment systems to provide an optimized interface for messaging, Continue Reading →

I don’t know about you, but I’m digging the whole “quantified self” trend. I use Sleep Cycle, a great little iPhone app to find out exactly how well I sleep each night; I just pre-ordered the new Fitbit Force; and I’ve come dangerously close to dropping my money on the cheeky Spreadsheets app–but that’s where Continue Reading →

Driver error is the number one cause of automobile crashes so what would happen if you removed humans from the equation? According to independent research by the Eno Center for Transportation, vehicle-related injuries would drop by 90 percent and save the US economy roughly $450 billion each year. The group discovered that 40 percent of Continue Reading →