Safety and Technology

The Puretech engine family starts as a 1.0-liter and 1.2-liter

Citroën has announced a new family of small petrol, three-cylinder engines that it calls Puretech that will be 25% cleaner than the engines that it replaces. The new family meets 2020 emissions rules already and will be offered in the C3, DS3...

It’s here to stay

Earlier this year I drove what is probably the car of 2012: Toyota’s GT86. It’s bloody fantastic but one element in particular made me wonder…steering feel. The day before the GT86 arrived on the drive, and then failed to le...

For the competitive automotive market, constant technological innovation is the key to commercial success. No wonder then, many of the most prosperous and longest-living brands invest large shares of their budgets into the development of new ideas...

Ford and the University of Michigan has teamed up to make cars cleaner, but not cleaner in an aesthetic sense, they want to makes automotive interiors more anti-microbial. The two groups are searching for where microbes in cars are most prevalent ...

Ford is making its Active City Stop emergency braking system available as an option on the Fiesta but only in Europe for now. When activated, the system examines 50 images roughly every second, and it can prevent collisions at less than 15km/h and...

You no longer need to worry about your car being hot wired and stolen but protect your keys. UK insurance company LV has found that only 1 in 50 (2%) cars stolen today are hot wired.  The popularity of hot wiring cars has been on the wane...

Ford has patented a new technology that it calls EV+ that learns a vehicle's frequent destinations and automatically switches the car into EV mode when they are nearby. The system IS packaged as part of the Smart Gauge that comes on the C-Max ...

Dutch companies Studio Roosegaarde and Heijmans Infrastructure are responsible for the Netherlands' Smart Highways Project and will implement a first-of-its-kind upgrade to the country's roads - glow-in-the-dark road lines. The glowing...

Many insects travel using simple, logical rules that determine where they go and why, but these rules are often implemented to create very complicated behaviors. A traffic researcher at Carnegie Mellon University has applied this knowledge to huma...

Toyota has developed an accident avoidance system that works at up to 80km/h (49mph). The system uses front-mounted, millimeter-wave radar to detect impending rear-end collisions with the car ahead. First, it warns the driver with an audible w...