BMW Teams Up With Intel And Mobileye For Self-Driving Cars
It’s hard to read the news about cars and not see something about autonomous driving. If the forecasts are to be believed, we could be seeing cars that drive themselves on the road in the very near future. While many automakers are rolling out technology to guide cars on the highways, BMW is looking further […]
Is Driving a Car Difficult for a Left-Handed Person?
Although I, like many people, am right-handed, I’ve often wondered if driving a car is different for a left-handed person than it is for a right-handed driver. Are there aspects of the driver’s console that have been optimized more for right-handed drivers? Are left-handers at an advantage when driving on the right side of the road? Is learning to drive more […]
Toyota Prius v is the Only Car with Good Headlights, IIHS Finds
Ever find yourself struggling to see down the road at night, even though you’re behind the wheel of a brand new car? You’re not alone. The NHTSA and IIHS test all sorts of things to determine vehicle safety—including how they perform in frontal collisions, rollovers, and side crashes, as well as quality of their crash […]
Driver Hits Police Car While Playing Pokémon Go
It may seem a no-brainer that playing Pokémon Go while driving is a bad idea—and by “bad” we mean unsafe for you and everyone around you. Still, the urge to find a Vaporeon or a Zapdos (good luck with that) is apparently too strong to overcome for some. It’s not the first accident we’ve seen […]
Germany Mulls Over Bill to Put Black Boxes in Autonomous Cars
If late-night action movies have taught us anything, it is that when an aircraft goes down, it is almost always survived by the Black Box: a device that records crucial information for determining the cause of the crash. Well, in the automotive industry, the problem of determining the cause of a crash is especially troubling […]
Chevy Racecar Driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. to Miss NASCAR Race Due to Concussion
Team Chevy driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. has won NASCAR’s Most Popular Driver award for 13 consecutive years, but his fans will not get the chance to see him race at the July 17th event at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Earnhardt Jr. has been involved in multiple crashes this summer, which have reportedly taken a toll […]
First Pokémon Go Car Accident with Injuries Reported
It has finally happened. Pokémon Go has caused a fairly serious car accident, with Auburn, New York, being the unlucky host city. According to police, who have not identified who was behind the wheel, the driver was distracted by the very popular app and drove his car off of the road and into a tree. […]
New Study Finds UK Car Consumers Put Connectivity Before Safety
In a world where technology is king, a recent survey has discovered that car consumers in the United Kingdom would prefer connectivity technology, such as Apple CarPlay or Android Auto, more than an advanced safety system. Color me surprised. The survey, which was completed by Autocar and its sister title What Car? was taken by […]
Ford Driver Brad Keselowski Picks Up NASCAR Victory at Kentucky
In 2015, former NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Brad Keselowski only managed to win one race. In 2016, he has already quadrupled his win total and there are still 18 races left remaining. The 32-year-old Keselowski managed to use fuel strategy to pick up his latest victory in the No. 2 Ford Fusion racecar. While […]
Review: Formula Motor Racing Card Game from GMT Games
A racing-themed board game doesn’t have to be seriously involved or take a lot of time to play. There are times when you need a light, easy-to-learn title to fit your gaming fix, and that’s what Formula Motor Racing (FMR) aims to deliver. FMR was first released in 1995 by English designer Reiner Knizia and […]
Venezuelan Car Market Goes Belly-Up in Economic Crisis
You guys remember Venezuela. It’s a country in South America with some of the largest oil reserves in the world, wildly squandered by a government so corrupt that in the face of economic and medical disaster it continued to funnel tens of millions of dollars into its homegrown Formula 1 racer Pastor Maldonado (who, ironically, […]
Toyota Adds Children Models to Crash Test Software
Toyota has announced it has added three new crash test models to its Total Human Model for Safety (THUMS) software that represent children aged three, six, and ten. As you might have expected, automakers don’t rely only on physical crash testing to determine the safety of their cars. A far cheaper approach—and one more convenient […]
Jay Leno Crashes in Iconic Hemi Under Glass Plymouth Barracuda
Like many car enthusiasts, Jay Leno has had a thing for the Hurst Hemi Under Glass Plymouth Barracuda since he was a kid. This vehicle, which has a Hemi engine tucked back under the rear glass, has the perfect rear weight bias that allows it to be a great wheel-stander. This vehicle is known for […]
Driverless Car Has IBM’s Watson As Its Copilot
Autonomous driving is the hot topic in the automotive world, with drivers and governments alike discussing how this technology can be harnessed to make our roadways safer than ever. Skeptics are concerned that since computers are certainly not human, the vehicles might not react correctly in certain situations and crash. One company has an idea […]
NHTSA Will Put Crash-Test Dummies in Backseats Thanks to Uber, Lyft
The automotive safety industry has come a long way since the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) first introduced its current safety rating system for cars in 1978. Seat belts have become a mandatory safety requirement. Driver assistance technologies have practically exploded in popularity. And now, the NHTSA will be putting crash-test dummies in the […]
The Tragic Story of the SS Senator, the Sunken Tanker Full of Historic Nash Cars
October of 1929 was a tragedy of drastic economic impact with the very beginning of the Great Depression, starting with the infamous Black Thursday stock market crash. However, there was another tragedy that occurred a few days later on Lake Michigan. As night fell and thick fog rolled in on Halloween that year, the SS […]
This Was No Accident; This Was a Crash – Safety Advocates Push for Language Change
Let’s talk about language for a moment. We all know that the words we choose are influenced by what we think about whatever we are talking about. For example, if you are at your mother’s house for dinner, whether you describe the steaks as “burned” or “well-done” reflects whether you liked it or not, as […]
Google Patents People Catcher Glue to Stick Collision Victims to the Car to Prevent More Injury
Let’s begin with an action film scenario: our debonair hero is running from something. Maybe the hero knows that there is an explosion about to happen, or maybe he’s running before a rampaging herd of some animal that has decided that straight lines are the only lines. Suddenly, our hero spies a complication: an innocent […]