Monthly Archives: November 2015

Living With Aftermarket Android Auto and Apple Carplay Pt.1

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4100nex - 1 of 68When you stop to consider how complex the task of driving a vehicle actually is, it’s rather surprising that there aren’t a lot more accidents and fatalities than we already have. Despite this, we keep adding more things for the driver to do on the road and designers have struggled to find a way to integrate everything into the human machine interface (HMI). Having watched the struggles of automotive designers to develop a usable in-vehicle HMI, technology giants Apple and Google have now stepped into the breach with their own solutions to the problem in the form of Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.

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Drag racers rejoice! the solid axle +

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Drag racers rejoice! the solid axle +Ford Performance Mustang is back in Cobra Jet form.

2016 Ford Mustang Goes Back To Solid Axle … Sort Of
Video2016 Ford Mustang Cobra Jet (photo credit: Ford Motor Company) When any product has been in continuous production for decades on end, change or lack of it can become extremely controversial. This is especially true when the product in question is a sports car. Two decades after Porsche added a radiator […]

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Automated driving technology has long way to go to be robust enough for ordinary people to rely on in real-world, less than ideal conditions

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Automated driving technology has long way to go to be robust enough for ordinary people to rely on in real-world, less than ideal conditions.

Automated Driving Technology Is Still Getting Foiled By Weather
Sensors like the camera in the Volvo XC90 need to be able see more reliably (photo credit: Sam Abuelsamid) The age of the driverless car will probably arrive eventually, but today the reality still falls far short of the promise. In the short time since Tesla released a software update for […]

2016 Volvo XC90 – Thankfully, It’s Enjoyable to Drive

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2016 Volvo XC90 T6 - 6 of 24When Alan Mulally took the reins as CEO of Ford Motor Company in 2006, a key element of his strategy to revive the struggling century-old automaker was to dispense with any brands under the corporate umbrella that didn’t carry the founder’s name. During his tenure he found buyers for all of the European luxury brands that his predecessors had acquired including Aston Martin, Jaguar, Land Rover and Volvo. Volvo was the last to go, with China’s Geely Group finally closing the deal in August 2010. While production was never interrupted, the brand’s rebirth really only began this year with the launch of its first all-new product, the second-generation XC90.

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