A research firm is predicting the death of auto insurance due to new and emerging technologies in the auto industry. Those technologies specifically include collision avoidance technology, telematics, automated traffic enforcement, and self-driving cars. Google has been experimenting with the latter technology for at least a couple of years now and has even gone so [...]

May has been declared National Youth Traffic Safety Month. One company in Irvine, California is partnering with a Dallas-Fort Worth TV station to bring awareness to safe teen driving practices. Location Based Technologies is a GPS services provider. In conjunction with NBC 5, a TV station in DFW, the company is making public safety announcements [...]

Eventually, all things must die. But must all things be transported in a funeral car? The owners and managers of one movie theater in East Greenville, Pennsylvania think so. The Grand Theater, like many other movie theaters across the country, are lamenting the loss of the 35mm film projector. In a move that’s come to [...]

In Europe where gas prices have been at $6 per gallon for years, people drive diesel cars. I mean, you see them everywhere. And there’s a reason. Diesel engines are clean and efficient. Plus, they save money for the drive. Americans are starting to figure that out now. Diesel car sales have jumped 35% in [...]

Every now and then an auto manufacturer will get a notion to remake one of its models. Sometimes that works out and sometimes it doesn’t. In the case of Nissan, the plan is to take the Altima from the No. 2 position in its class to the No. 1 position, currently held by the Toyota [...]

Guess who’s nosing in on the funeral car market. Rolls Royce. When you think about Rolls Royce, what’s the first thing that comes to your mind? I bet it isn’t funeral processions and caskets. It’s probably luxury and style. That’s what I think about when the RR brand is mentioned. Well, not any more. The [...]

Ten years ago, a company called SpaceX was founded with the goal of helping make the human race a multi-planetary species. Today, SpaceX remains firmly committed to this goal and plans to do everything within its power to help make this happen. Although we have not covered SpaceX here on our blog, we have been [...]

Remember George Jetson? How we marveled over the fact that his car could fly? And we wanted one too. Well, now you can have your very own flying car. If you have the money and a pilot’s license. The Terrafugia Transition seats two passengers and was built by trained engineers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [...]

Older drivers were taught to drive safely before the use of airbags. But now that airbags are common and are installed in every new vehicle before it is sold, you may be driving wrong. That’s what safety experts are saying. The new case study makes mention of two specific driving habits that are outdated: The [...]

How do you solve the energy crisis and the transportation problem in one whack? An inventor named Scott Brusaw has the answer: Solar roadways. Solar roadways involve taking scraps from landfills and converting it, along with other materials, into an infrastructure of roadways that are in essence made of glass and operate as solar panels. [...]