Safety and Technology

It will be the first car in the world with the technology

When BMW announced that the i8 Concept would have laser headlights back in 2011, it was met with confusion, but two years later BMW is finally explaining how the technology works and its benefits. When it goes on sale in late 2014, it will be the ...

It also has new engines and technology coming to its cars

Ford has big product plans worldwide for 2014. It plans to launch three new factories worldwide and 23 new cars that will be sold globally. It is the most vehicles that Ford will launch in one year in over a century. Among the new vehicles 16 ...

Daimler is working with the German government to build a hydrogen infrastructure

German Minister President Winfried Kretschmann have received a Mercedes B-Class F-Cell has his official vehicle when he performs government duties in Berlin. It is meant to show that the car’s technology is ready for the real world. &quo...

A consumer version could be ready in a year

Autonomous cars are coming. There is no denying it. Nissan and Mercedes-Benz have already announced that they will have autonomous cars on the road by 2020. Ford says that its autonomous tech will be on sale by 2025. One more name to the list is R...

The company thinks that it will have the technology ready for 2025

Ford has teamed up with the University of Michigan and State Farm Insurance to create an autonomous test version of a Ford Fusion Hybrid. Ford believes that it will have autonomous cars on sale by 2025. “We see a future of connected cars...

The car offers limited autonomous braking and steering

Mercedes has hired Michael Schumacher to test the safety systems of the new C-Class head of its imminent reveal. Mercedes has a test site that it calls SimCity where it can put safety systems through their paces. Mercedes calls its suite of ne...

It has been engineered to work with safety systems

Volvo is promising that its new Scalable Product Architecture (SPA) platform will be its safest ever when it debuts on the next generation XC90 in 2014. The modular platform has been engineered to work with the car’s safety and assistance sy...

It will begin with a test in Renault Zoes.

Renault is partnering with telecommunications company Orange to bring 4G/LTE to its cars. The rollout will start with a research project between the companies with the intention of having 4G in cars in a few years. Orange has rolled out 4G at ...

It strapped a GoPro camera to a car as it was built at the factory

Seat is showing what it takes to build a Leon ST in a new video. The Spanish automaker strapped a GoPro camera to the chassis of a Leon ST as it went through all phases of construction at its Martorell factory. The Leon ST takes 19 hours to bu...

Its first safety test was rolling a DKW off a hill

Audi performed its first auto safety test 75 years ago when a group of DKW engineers rolled an F7 off a hill in Golm, Germany, in 1938 to see how it would hold up. To show that they were proud of the car, they did it in front of the public and med...