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STORY HIGHLIGHTS Consumers moving at a slower pace toward technology adoption Car owners content with modest technology improvements Safety features are favored among autonomous technologies Drivers are challenging the current industry narrative Self-driving vehicles? Electric/hybrids? Ridesharing? All are headed our…
STORY HIGHLIGHTS My car does what? An extra set of eyes Are you finding it difficult to keep up with the speedy advances in vehicle safety technology? If so, you’re not alone. Designed to make driving safer and easier, these…
Kids and cars. Most parents just can’t read those words without thinking child safety. September is a good month for that, seemingly as full of reminders as it is: Child Passenger Safety Week and Childhood Injury Prevention Week, National Seat…
Cars have never been more loaded with computer technology than right now. And, it’s possible that drivers have never been more confused. That technology includes adaptive cruise control, tire-pressure monitoring, curve-speed warning and two dozen other systems, according to the…
You’ve probably seen the TV commercials by now. A driver not paying attention to the road ahead and his car automatically braking to avoid an accident –Volkswagen Passat’s “Dad, Stop!” and Hyundai’s “Dad’s Sixth Sense” come to mind. But those…
SUVs are big on safety, and small SUVs apparently are the biggest of all. SUVs overall represented more than one-third of this year’s 61 Tops Safety Pick award winners selected by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) and the…