National Transportation Safety Board chair Jennifer Homendy sharply criticized federal regulators Thursday for not doing enough to monitor and test automatic driving technologies. She spoke at an ...

Modern car buyers face a crucial transmission choice: torque-converter automatics, CVTs, or DCTs. Each offers a distinct ...

The Automatic smart driving monitor is a small dongle you attach to the diagnostic port under your car's dashboard. The dongle talks via Bluetooth to your smartphone to transmit data about your ...

Tesla's FSD (Supervised) feature is one of the most advanced semi-autonomous driving features available. FSD (Supervised) is trained on the cumulative driving experience of all Tesla EVs that use the ...

Learning to drive in the UK isn’t like learning to drive in the U.S., and not only because drivers sit on different sides of the car. If British drivers want to drive a car with a manual transmission ...

According to the 2024 EPA Automotive Trends report, nearly 35% of all new vehicle models sold in 1980 were equipped with a manual transmission — but for 2024, that number has shrunk to below 1%. Yet ...

Xiaomi is really making a big move into the automobile industry. The company set up a new facility in Beijing, which includes the R&D and sales headquarters, and is aiming to release its first car by ...

The best small automatic cars combine compact dimensions with a self-shifting gearbox for ultimate inner-city ease of use.

Renault has been granted a patent for a navigation device that includes own vehicle position detection, route setting, matching, and driving lane detection units. The device sets a guidance route ...

Faith Bottum writes of a few reasons to commend a stick shift (“The Dying Art of Driving a Stick Shift,” op-ed, March 28), such as lower cost and less theft, largely because there are few people left ...

Shifting between Drive and Reverse before the vehicle comes to a complete halt places heavy stress on transmission components. The sudden change in power direction while the wheels are still moving ...