Are New Infotainment Systems Dangerously Distracting?
As a car's features and capabilities continue to evolve, is safety being pushed aside in favour of entertainment?
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Jul 173 min read
Electric Vehicles Not Selling
Are consumers pulling the plug on electric vehicles? Between charging challenges and high prices, here's why demand has plummeted
May 20, 20202 min read
A Shift Towards an Automated Future?
In the aftermath of COVID-19, it's likely that we will begin rethinking things that were a normal part of the fabric of society before...
May 1, 20202 min read
The Impact of COVID on Vehicle Design
Many things are being re-evaulated in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, and in the auto industry, this has included the design of...
Mar 20, 20202 min read
The Self-Driving Car in a Corona World
As systems around the world adapt to reality of life under COVID-19, things are changing quickly and drastically. The virus is already...
Mar 6, 20202 min read
Your Car Has a Autonomous Level - Do You Know What It Is?
As we discussed in an earlier post, many of the latest vehicle models are outfitted with autonomous driving capabilities, some of which...
Mar 5, 20202 min read
The Unseen Women Who Shaped the Auto Industry
When we recount the history of the car, it's almost always a male-dominated narrative. Figures like Henry Ford, Karl Benz, and Walter...
Feb 7, 20202 min read
Wearable Warnings: Technology to Help Combat Trucker Fatigue
Truck driving is an arduous job, involving long hours across long distances, in varying weather and types of terrain. One of the biggest...
Feb 7, 20202 min read
The Price of Safety Technology
The technologies that keep drivers safe behind the wheel are becoming more sophisticated with each passing year, and the more...
Dec 20, 20192 min read
Reconsidering Safety Compromises?
The dangers of using technology while driving have been well established, but since the introduction of tech into our vehicles, creative...
Dec 20, 20192 min read
The Future is Driverless
It's still early days when it comes to self-driving cars, which means that a lot of the focus is on how the technology will work, what...
Dec 20, 20192 min read
Does Surveillance Lead to Safety?
When you are a teenager, getting your license (and having access to a car) can be synonymous with freedom. For the first time, you don't...
Dec 20, 20192 min read
The Long and Winding (Electric) Road
With increased concern over climate change and with governments the world over focusing more heavily on how to decrease CO2 emissions,...
Dec 20, 20192 min read
Keeping Up With Safety
Advanced safety technology is developing at a breakneck speed; safety features that seemed out of reach even five years ago are now...
Dec 16, 20192 min read
The Emotional Lives of Cars
The future lies in smart technology, but the question of what that smart technology looks like, and will look like, when it comes to...
Nov 25, 20191 min read
Everyday Legacies of Race Cars
The sensible cars that we associate with the daily commute to work feel miles away from the race cars that screech around a track going...
Nov 25, 20191 min read
Zipping Into the Merging Future?
Frustrations over the slow pace of traffic can make merging fraught business. That's especially true when you're stuck in a slow moving...
Nov 25, 20191 min read
Airbags... For the Outside of Your Car?
Driving is an expensive enterprise, and for many of us, the car we drive may be one of the most expensive things we own. One German...
Nov 25, 20191 min read
Will Self-Driving Cars Be Green?
Self-driving cars have gone from being the car of the future to being the car of the present. We're in a period of exponential discovery...
Nov 25, 20192 min read
The Future is Brighter... Hopefully
A new report from the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety has found that there is a problem with the state of headlights in the United...
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