Changing technologies means professionals who work on cars have to update their training from time to time to meet the growing demand of electronic, hybrid, and other emerging vehicle technologies. That’s just a part of the challenge of being an auto mechanic. New technology like regenerative braking, high voltage engines, and new fuel economy components [...]

Automotive technology just keeps getting better and better. Unless you are buying pre-owned vehicles, it is really difficult to a car today that isn’t equipped with digital technology. Virtually every new car on the road has some sort of digital technology, and it won’t be long before every vehicle driven will be full of such [...]

Rearview cameras have a long history. Would you believe the first one was introduced in 1956? Yes, in a Buick Centurion Motoroma. But it looks like 2013 is going to be the year of the rearview camera. Virtually every auto manufacturer is introducing some version of this fairly new technology. I say “fairly new” because [...]

The Association for the Advancement of Retired Persons (AARP) has highlighted several key automotive technologies that they consider important for senior drivers to embrace. These recommended auto technologies are important emerging auto technologies, many of which are being introduced by automakers and being embraced by mainstream auto drivers. Twelve of the most important auto technologies [...]

When one thinks about buying a new car, one doesn’t often think about improvements to headlight technology as the impetus for such a purchase, and few of us would probably reject a particular automobile if the headlights work properly. Nevertheless, with all the improvements to auto manufacturing going on right now, headlight improvements being among [...]

In 2010, according to one estimate, 5.4 million automobile crashes resulted in 33,000 deaths and 2.2 million injuries. That’s a ratio of more than 40% injuries to crashes. The good news is that industry experts are claiming that these numbers can be reduced with one simple technology: self-braking cars. Self-braking technology comes in varying degrees. [...]

Imagine driving a lighter vehicle that is network-connected. By that I mean your radio, your voice and audio controls, your GPS navigation, your back seat video viewer, and all of your digital in-car technology run off of one network and is powered by one central network brain. That’s what Cisco wants to do to your [...]

Ford Motor Company thinks you will. That’s why they’ve made an option for the best selling Ford Fusion to include an upgrade option in 2013 that will cost you $295 if you go for it. The option is an auto start-stop feature. Ford isn’t the first automaker to introduce this feature. Other cars that have [...]

A special type of flywheel was developed for Formula One racing cars but were never used in them due to rules changes in the racing circuit. But that doesn’t mean those flywheels can’t be used in other automobiles. Several European auto makers are considering those flywheels for use in on-road vehicles so that better fuel [...]

Auto safety is no laughing matter. Everyone wants driving to be more safe, not less. But for months we’ve heard critics of in-car technology, particularly technology that allows drivers to fiddle with gadgets while they are driving, proclaim that those technologies only serve to be driver distractions. Finally, a member of the auto dealers association [...]