Technology/Autonomous Vehicles

Keep your head up! That’s the best way to enjoy one of the Kona’s most advanced features. Head-up display (HUD) is a technology initially developed for the aviation sector that progressively migrated to the car industry. First popularized by General Motors in the late 1990s, then by exotic brands such …

Driving one of the newer Mazda cars and SUVs is to be pointlessly deafened by its Blind Spot Monitoring system. What gives? In terms of automotive technology, we can say that Mazda is going at it alone. The modest Japanese car manufacturer hasn’t resisted the turbocharging trend, does not really …

The revamped interface of the SYNC 3 multimedia system aboard the brand’s largest SUV has essentially been developed near Ottawa by QNX, a company now owned by BlackBerry. In 2018, we can say Ford has been pretty lucky with its Lincoln brand. Not unlike its rival Buick, it almost disappeared …

All that for nothing? Diesel engines were supposed to help us transition to an all-electric transportation system, but it turns out it was too little, too late. The Volkswagen debacle badly hurt diesel technology during, these past few years. The German carmaker has gone full-reverse and has become one of …

The star of the show in New York this week is not one you’d expect, but one which you already know very well. Apple and its CarPlay interface are featured in most, if not all, the new models on display at the show. In the meantime, it seems as though …

In the video promoting its NX compact utility vehicle, Lexus insists on how the embarked technology helps avoid imminent collisions and traffic jams. As they say, to err is human. If only the vehicle itself did not help commit errors in the first place… Being distracted while driving takes many …

Are parking spots too narrow? Or are modern vehicles simply too large? BMW’s answer to both these questions is: indeed. The German manufacturer was in Montreal in mid-January to premiere the new and fairly large 6 Series Gran Turismo hatchback. It also unveiled a smart key which partly solves that …

Would you drive a car controlled only by a joystick? What has so far been a fantasy embodied by concept cars could very well become a reality, judging by the new technologies in vehicles like the 2018 Nissan LEAF. The ePedal system found in the second-generation LEAF wants you to …

At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nissan chairman of the board and CEO Carlos Ghosn laid out the basics of the company’s plans for future mobility, autonomous driving and a strategy for zero fatalities on the road. His keynote concentrated on five major announcements. A technology called …

The industry is slowly turning toward electric propulsion, but internal combustion engines continue to be updated since they still make up the majority of the automotive world's powertrains. Mercedes-Benz just announced their newest engines, which includes four, six and eight cylinders. They will share some technologies and, in some cases, …