How to Understand Car Noises
29 Jan 2010, 15:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / You don't need to be a mechanic to understand the basic needs of your car, even when they make themselves known via noises
How Speed Cameras Work
15 Mar 2010, 15:37 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The first patent for a speed camera was registered in 1905, when the papers for Time Recording Camera for Trapping Motorists were filed
Lane Keeping Assist Systems Explained
20 Oct 2010, 20:16 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / One of the best active safety features introduced on vehicles in the last decade or so is often overlooked, despite having saved countless of lives
VisLab Autonomous Car. The First Driver-Free Journey
31 Oct 2010, 13:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Autonomous cars aren't a new thing in the industry. A research project which initiated from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) a few years back has turned into a worldwide se...
How Anti-Lag Systems Work
11 Oct 2010, 19:01 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / We're sure many of you have heard or at least wondered about the loud but somehow strangely arousing bang-bang sound some rally cars make usually upon nearing a corner at decreasing speed. Befo...
How to Clean Your Soft-Top
26 Sep 2010, 10:03 UTC · By: Tudor Raiciu / A Zen Moment You’ve got your first convertible and you’re buzzing with excitement. You take it for a ride along some winding mountain roads, the wind is blowing through your hair, the...
Composite Material Battery Explained
25 Sep 2010, 08:45 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The world of the electric vehicles is currently evolving at a very rapid pace, with more and more models being released or announced as scheduled for production on a nearly daily basis. There are ho...
Hypermiling Techniques
31 Aug 2010, 06:56 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Caught in between hybrids, plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles, car buyers seem to have forgotten that even in a regular ICE-powered car (internal combustion engine), a few driving skills can help...
TwinAir Engine Explained
30 Jul 2010, 12:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In the beginning of July 2010, Italian manufacturer Fiat announced a premiere for the European market: the 900cc, two cylinder gasoline engine. Fitted, for now, onto the Fiat 500, the tiny powerplan...
How Ford's Curve Control Works
30 Jun 2010, 13:58 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As computer-enhanced safety system become more and more of an integrant part of today's automobiles, one thing becomes obvious: manufacturers no longer trust the humans behind the wheel. It...
Twin Channel Active Stabilizer Bar System Explained
1 Jun 2010, 14:34 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / When developing a new car, the automotive world has always had to make a compromise between a vehicle suspension’s ability to tackle a corner and the comfort offered to the occupants. Fortu...
How Automated Parking Systems Work
21 Apr 2010, 15:03 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Automated parking systems are designed to park cars in a stacked manner, something regular humans would never be capable of achieving
How BMW's Narrow Passage Assistant Works
2 Apr 2010, 06:23 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The range of useful, high-tech gadgets for automobiles to be made available in the near future expands at an exponential rate, with more and more "toys for boys" being made available for t...
GM’s Full Windshield HUD Technology Explained
24 Mar 2010, 15:32 UTC · By: Alexandru Radu Chis / If you became too fond of that informational HUD (Head-Up Display) from your computer racing games, then you’re going to be thrilled with GM’s latest research program. And even if high-t...
Lotus Evora 414E Hybrid Explained
26 Feb 2010, 07:40 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As we slowly creep towards a new era in the automotive world, it becomes more and more obvious no single manufacturer out there who will survive if it doesn't begin to offer at least a hybrid i...
Vehicle Depreciation Rate - Why You Lose Money
16 Feb 2010, 15:14 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In the times we are living, no single car buyer purchases a car thinking he/she will keep it for the rest of his/her life. With the car exchange time now standing at around three or four years, cons...
Stuck in Snow: How to Live and Tell the Tale
10 Feb 2010, 16:05 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In just a few days this February, two major snow storms hit the US, with forecasters warning that after the second one is over, the East Coast would find itself under 36 inches of snow. Roughly the ...
The Scuderi Engine - Strength in Pairs
14 Jan 2010, 15:48 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The beginning of 2010 brought to the automotive scene rumor of an ongoing research within German manufacturer BMW's engineering labs, aimed at developing a split engine hybrid for the future ge...
Mercedes AIRCAP – Keeping Your Hair in One Place
16 Dec 2009, 19:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Convertible car owners, regardless of the make, model or whatever, have always experienced some (major) difficulties handling one of such a vehicle's most dreaded enemy (no, not rain): turbulen...
How Inflatable Seat Belts Work
12 Nov 2009, 16:57 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The biggest news this past week from the automotive industry, in terms of safety innovations at least, was Ford's announcement it has completed work on the world's first inflatable seat be...