The fundamental problem with asking whether automated vehicles are safe is that there are currently no commonly accepted methods of even evaluating this new technology. Any company that claims its system is safe is doing so based on its own…

Thirty years on from the launch of the Lexus brand, Toyota’s luxury unit is now firmly ensconced in the premium automotive firmament. While the Lexus lineup has grown substantially over the years, especially on the SUV side with everything from the…

For the past several years, any time that Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang has taken the stage for a keynote at CES or one of the company’s numerous GPU technology conferences around the world, there has generally been some news about automated…

It’s been just over 29 months since General Motors announced that it would launch 20 zero-emission vehicles by 2023. Since that time exactly zero of those vehicles have actually arrived at dealerships. In fact, we’ve lost two of the plug-in vehicles…

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It’s been said that doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity. By that definition any supplier that works with Tesla may be downright bonkers.
Never in my three decades in the auto…

It could be reasonably argued that Jeep invented the premium SUV. At the very least, the original Jeep Wagoneer arrived eight years before the first Range Rover. You could also make the case that the Wagoneer in any of its forms never really ascended…

There was time in the not so distant past when the pickup truck tailgate was a remarkably simple device. It was little more than a steel flap with a simple latch and a pair of hinge pins. Pull the handle to open the latch and swung down. Lift and…

For more than a decade following the demise of the old rear-wheel-drive Chevrolet Caprice Ford absolutely dominated the American market for police vehicles with the Crown Victoria. Despite its already advanced age by the time the 21st century…

As the software required to make a vehicle safely drive itself becomes ever more complex, it takes significantly more computing power to process the data pouring out of sensors and make decisions. Until recently, Nvidia and Intel (including its…

One of the most surprising automotive success stories of the past half decade comes Fiat Chrysler Automobiles in the form of an engine nicknamed Hellcat. Originally developed to pump some mid-lifecycle excitement into the Dodge Challenger sport…