There’s nothing unusual about taking a cab ride in New York. Aside from the subway, cabs have long been one of the most common ways to get around the city, although in recent years, cabs have increasingly given way ride-hailing. This weekend I used…

Daimler and Bosch said in July that would launch their first automated ride-hailing pilot program somewhere in Silicon Valley in 2019. That somewhere has now been identified as San Jose where a small fleet of automated S-Class sedans will start…

When Acura launched the TLX sport sedan in 2015 as a replacement for its outgoing TL, it became the last new model from the brand to feature the much derided shield grille. At April’s New York Auto Show, an updated 2018 TLX will debut with the new…

In recent years as the number of traffic fatalities started to edge back up again after years of decline, the category with the largest increase was pedestrians. While there is plenty of debate over the root cause of more pedestrian deaths, there was…

As General Motors spiraled toward bankruptcy in 2008 and 2009, the brand that launched the once dominant automaker was perilously close to joining Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Saturn and Hummer on the scrap heap. Two things saved Buick from extinction, China…

In response to German officials asking Tesla to stop using the term AutoPilot for its driver assistance system, the automaker commissioned a survey of owners to gauge what they really understood. The good news from the results is that the glass is…

Back when Ford still owned Land Rover and Jaguar, there always seemed to be rumors that Jaguar was going to add an SUV to its lineup of sedans and GT coupes. The assumption was Jaguar would create a badge-engineered version of a Range Rover. This…

In the wake of Tesla’s recent announcement of 2015 financial results and a Bloomberg report that the upcoming Model 3 could cost as little as $25,000, it’s worth taking a looking at the prospects for the more affordable electric car with a somewhat…

Recently, video surfaced of a Tesla TSLA plowing into a stationary object. In this case, it was an overturned truck blocking two full lanes of a highway in Taiwan. As usual the immediate speculation was that this was another failure of Tesla’s…

Sir James Dyson has made his fortune over the past couple of decades selling rather pricey bits of hardware designed specifically to move a lot of air. From vacuum cleaners to blow dryers, his company has developed some very interesting projects. Now…