Tag: Cars

Each case is different. But there’s always that awful moment when the parent realizes what they’ve done. There’s a desperate sprint to the car. A nightmarish discovery. A gut-wrenching call to 911. Each incident has its own painful backstory. In Florida this past month, an 11-mo...

The two material things I wanted when I escaped rural Oklahoma (formerly the Muscogee Creek Nation) were a place to live with lights and plumbing built in and a car that always started. Not to say I had a car that failed to start. I had no car, but I was car-crazy, like most teens of the day, on or ...

Over the recent years, and more particularly since the success of the Darpa Grand Challenge competitions a decade ago, the race towards the development of fully autonomous vehicles has accelerated tremendously. Many components make up an autonomous vehicle, and some of its most critical on...

I want to preface this article by asking you to forget anything you may have read about the Apple Car, and to leave behind any design concepts you’ve seen before (Ironically, including the one I included above). In order to attempt and imagine what Apple’s Car will be, we very well may n...

1. Fully functional office space We make the most of long drives by making work calls or listening to podcasts; However, that will change soon. In the near future, driverless cars will function as a fully functional mobile company. Equipped with Wi-Fi and served by a 5G network, these cars o...

When big automakers shift from making polluting, gasoline-burning cars to cleaner electric vehicles, they’re cheered. Similarly, fossil-fuel companies are praised when invest in solar or wind power to help drive the transition to renewable energy. Yet when tobacco companies develop safer...

Toyota recently did something they should have done years ago: wrap their hybrid technology in futuristic styling with a solid power boost. Hybrids have acquired a rather unfortunate image of being a slow and boring compromise for the environment. When Tesla’s exciting electric cars came al...