Safety and Technology

Honda will add a performance-oriented, 1.6-liter Earth Dreams diesel engine to the European Civic in early 2013. Later in the year, the CR-V will also get the engine.  It produces 120hp, 300Nm of torque, makes 94g/km of CO2 and uses 3.6l/...

Volvo's SARTE program allowed trains of vehicles traveling close together at up to 90km/h. This technology will see it first availability to consumer vehicles in 2014 when Volvo offers automatic vehicle following at up to 50km/h. Volvo calls t...

Some parents don’t want to buy their children a car that is ten years old or something that hasn’t been through the latest crash tests, and can you blame them? So, where do we look for reliability and technology? Japan of course (there...

We already know that Nissan is going to equip some high-end Infiniti models with a steer-by-wire system next year. The goal for the system is to eventually allow autonomous steering in certain situations, and NIssan is in advanced testing of this ...

Volvo has been equipping cars with airbags for the last 25 years. Since then, it has been the first manufacturer in the world to build cars with side curtain airbags, seat-mounted side airbags and pedestrian airbags.  "The benefit of...

Women are twice as likely to suffer whiplash-related injuries in car accidents, but most automakers still use crash dummies based on men when safety testing their cars. A new crash dummy developed at the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothen...

Nissan will install steer-by-wire technology on some high-end Infiniti models starting next year. The technology means that there is no physical steering linkage between the steering wheel and the wheels. It will be the first time that the technol...

This week for our look at cars of the future, we examine what people want from their car's technology in the future. In he last five years in-car automotive technology has evolved into much more than just a radio and maybe hands-free calling. ...

BMW is working with 29 other groups from the EU including automotive, IT and communications companies to solve a problem plaguing consumer hardware and software makers - compatibility. The project is called "webinos." It began in Septemb...

During the Composites Europe exhibition in Dusseldorf, Germany, Ford is showing a very normal looking Ford Focus that might change the company. Ford Europe and Dow Automotive Systems have been developing carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) comp...