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New Uber App Feature Could Track Erratic Driving

New Uber App Feature Could Track Erratic Driving

No one likes a driver that drives with two feet (unless that person is driving a manual), especially when it’s someone you’re paying to take you from Point A to Point B. To make sure its customers get the best drivers—and the smoothest rides—possible, Uber has decided to pilot test a new app feature throughout […]

 Kurt Verlin

Apple CarPlay & Android Auto: Bailing Automakers Out of Making Proper Infotainment Systems

Apple CarPlay & Android Auto: Bailing Automakers Out of Making Proper Infotainment Systems

Ever since Ford introduced SYNC at the start of 2007, just about every automaker on the face of the planet has followed suit by creating their own infotainment systems for their cars. These days, cars have to be able to do a bit of everything. Navigation and audio go without saying, but then there’s parking […]

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Garfield the Cat Appears in Korean Ads for the Hyundai IONIQ

Garfield the Cat Appears in Korean Ads for the Hyundai IONIQ

If there’s one cartoon character who embodies our laziness and pessimism about the world, it’s Garfield the cat. Despite his comfortable lifestyle, this orange tabby cat created by Jim Davis is known for his lovably droll observations and lethargic tendencies. Yet, despite his reputation, the furry feline still makes the occasional appearance as a mascot […]

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Car Tech Explained: Android Auto and Apple CarPlay

Car Tech Explained: Android Auto and Apple CarPlay

With the introduction of the iPhone and Android smartphone in the late 2000s, the cell phone went from a device that was mostly used to send and receive calls, and transformed into a sophisticated mobile operating system that could be used to stream the internet and run software applications. In an effort to keep up […]

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Enter Our Giveaway: Hi-Tech ZUS Phone Charger & Car Finder

Enter Our Giveaway: Hi-Tech ZUS Phone Charger & Car Finder

UPDATE: THE GIVEAWAY HAS ENDED. LOOK FOR MORE GIVEAWAYS FROM THE NEWS WHEEL. These days, keeping your smartphone charged while on the go is essential for staying connected. But only the ZUS Smart Car Charger from NoNDA uses Bluetooth to connect to your phone and tell you where you left your car. Made of top-quality, military-grade […]

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People Are More Likely to Pay Uber’s Surge Pricing If Their Phone Is Dying

People Are More Likely to Pay Uber’s Surge Pricing If Their Phone Is Dying

Every smartphone user—heck, every cell phone owner—understands the sense of panic that overcomes you when your phone is clinging to its battery life. The moment when you notice your little battery display turn red, the feeling that your life is over hits. Now, it looks like Uber has found that its users are more likely […]

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BMW Ready to Integrate Apple CarPlay

BMW Ready to Integrate Apple CarPlay

Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are becoming more and more common in vehicle infotainment systems, especially as automakers admit that it’s easier to integrate the smartphone manufacturers’ systems into their cars than to adapt their own programs to interface with each new operating systems version as its released. Later this year, BMW will begin to integrate […]

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Opel Announces Features for myOpel App

Opel Announces Features for myOpel App

Opel has now made it possible for drivers to remotely set destinations for navigating through the use of the myOpel app, which interacts with an Opel vehicle’s onboard navigation system without a user needing to even be in the vehicle. Through myOpel, a user can enter their desired destination on their smartphone and send it […]

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Kia Now Offers Apple CarPlay with UVO Services

Kia Now Offers Apple CarPlay with UVO Services

Kia is keeping up with the industry’s technological advances, giving consumers exactly what they want—Apple CarPlay®. The South Korean carmaker recently announced that the 2017 Kia Sportage and 2016 Kia Optima models (which will arrive at dealers during the second quarter) will come with CarPlay® compatibility when the models are equipped with a compatible navigation […]

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German City Installs In-Pavement Traffic Lights to Warn Smartphone-Enthralled Pedestrians

German City Installs In-Pavement Traffic Lights to Warn Smartphone-Enthralled Pedestrians

Smartphones are attention-grabbers (as we have discussed before). So many people have begun focusing their attention on their phones while walking around that the young people of Germany have come up with their own word for these shambling walkers: smombie (aka smartphone zombie). This phenomenon can be funny when you see someone walk right into […]

 Patrick Grieve

Honda Releases #PhoneDownEyesUp Videos to Discourage Texting While Driving… or Doing Anything, Really

Honda Releases #PhoneDownEyesUp Videos to Discourage Texting While Driving… or Doing Anything, Really

Honda’s marketing team has created a new anti-texting-and-driving campaign called #PhoneDownEyesUp, proving that they are as committed to automotive safety as they are to reminding us all of an old (NSFW) 2 Live Crew song. As part of the social media campaign, Honda has been releasing videos that compare the dangers of texting and driving […]

 Kyle Johnson

Commoners Need Not Apply: Ford’s GT Application, Step-by-Step

Commoners Need Not Apply: Ford’s GT Application, Step-by-Step

On Wednesday, Ford began accepting applications for its 2017 GT supercar. While Ford is not charging a fee to fill out the form—though it probably very well could have given both the superlative hype and the extremely limited quantities in which it will be sold—the presumed $400,000 price is enough in and of itself to knock […]

 Timothy Moore

New Toyota uBox Designed by Students to Appeal to Gen-Z

New Toyota uBox Designed by Students to Appeal to Gen-Z

Automakers are still struggling to appeal to millennials. They are competing with ideas of environmental activism, rideshare programs, and the preference of Uber over car ownership. Some automakers have made Hillary Clinton-esque attempts at appealing to the commonly oversimplified generation—take Chevy’s emoji campaign or Toyota’s failed Scion brand, for instance. But no automaker has truly […]

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Android Music App Integration Coming To BMW

Android Music App Integration Coming To BMW

The BMW iDrive System allows BMW owners to concentrate on the road while still navigating technology in their vehicles. The infotainment system is pretty cutting edge, and drivers who want to add to what it can already do can download the BMW Connected app from their smartphone’s store and use it to share information between the car […]

 Caitlin Moran

Latest European Kia Models Receive Android Auto and Apple CarPlay

Latest European Kia Models Receive Android Auto and Apple CarPlay

In today’s society, “technology” is a major buzzword for those shopping for a new car—and Kia is certainly not stingy when it comes to offering the best tech available in the industry. Now, the South Korean carmaker’s technology offerings are about to get a major boost. Kia is launching Apple CarPlay™ and Android Auto™ in […]

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How to Use the Honda Road Readers App [VIDEO]

How to Use the Honda Road Readers App [VIDEO]

Last December, Honda announced the introduction of the Honda Road Readers app, which enables Honda owners to download free children’s audiobooks for family drives. Today the automaker released a video explaining how to use the Honda Road Readers app. As the video explains, Honda owners are able to download up to four free audiobooks per […]

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Check Out This Smartphone-Integrated Go-Kart That Runs on Electricity and Imagination

Check Out This Smartphone-Integrated Go-Kart That Runs on Electricity and Imagination

Actev Motor's Arrow Smart-Kart brings go-karts into the 21st century

As mainstream production automobiles become increasingly futuristic, so do the toys that our children play with. Even connected technology is reaching off the streets and onto local roadways where children play–from miniature race cars now to go-karts. Over the weekend, the Arrow Smart-Kart was unveiled, which employs cutting-edge connected technology found in today’s leading automobiles in […]

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Uber to Use Cell Phone Data to Monitor Drivers

Uber to Use Cell Phone Data to Monitor Drivers

Put on your tin-foil hats and mutter about how you don’t trust the corporations, everyone, because Uber, the ride-hailing app, is considering using your smartphone’s gyrometer and GPS data to make sure you aren’t driving like a maniac. Basically, Uber said that it would do this as a sort of filter for the passengers’ and […]

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