Professor Steers Driverless Car Programmers Toward Ethical Questions October 14, 2015 By Keith Naughton It’s nothing more than a dune buggy on a cordoned-off street but it’s headed for trouble. A jumble of sawhorses...
U.S. Missing Life-Saving Opportunity of Driver Assistance Technologies September 30, 2015 By Keith Naughton New auto safety technologies such as automatic braking and sensors that keep a car in its lane could prevent almost...
Shopping, Banking from Car Dashboards Opens Door to Identity Theft September 1, 2015 By Keith Naughton and Olga Kharif Hackers can already take control of a car. And as vehicles become rolling shopping malls, cybercriminals will have an opportunity...
M City: Where All Cars Are Driverless July 21, 2015 By Keith Naughton A simulated city opened Monday on the north campus of the University of Michigan to test how self-driving cars will...
Driverless, Shared Cars to Cut Vehicle Ownership by Half: Barclays May 19, 2015 By Keith Naughton U.S. auto sales may drop about 40 percent in the next 25 years because of shared driverless cars, forcing mass-market...
Exit Ramp Rollovers Kill Hundreds of Truckers a Year March 31, 2015 By Keith Naughton It was almost midnight when Walter Price eased his 18-wheeler into the right lane on Interstate 75 near Atlanta. As...
Driverless Car to Make First Coast-to-Coast Highway Trip March 16, 2015 By Keith Naughton Delphi Automotive Plc, a supplier of car electronics, is undertaking the longest test of a driverless auto, going coast to...
How Much Will Drivers Pay for High-Tech Devices? January 5, 2015 By Keith Naughton A majority of U.S. drivers are willing to pay as much as $1,499 to have high-tech entertainment and safety devices...
Foreign Accents Drive Smart Cars’ Voice Technology Crazy September 11, 2014 By Keith Naughton Colin and Rachel Britton have a failure to communicate when they slip into their $95,000 Mercedes GL500. Not with each...
2017 Cadillacs to Feature Hands-Free Driving, V2V Technology September 8, 2014 By Keith Naughton General Motors Co., the largest U.S. automaker, will introduce a Cadillac model in two years that can travel on the...