Ford disinfects police cruisers by ‘roasting’ them

To help keep police safe from the coronavirus, Ford is introducing a new way to disinfect police cruisers. The company has developed software that cranks the heat in its Police Interceptor Utility vehicles until the temperature inside reaches 133 deg...

Ford shares a year’s worth of self-driving car data

Self-driving vehicles require massive amounts of data, which can be difficult to obtain without vehicles equipped with cameras and LiDAR and miles and miles of testing. To help advance autonomous vehicle research, Ford is releasing a comprehensive se...

BMW shows off an AR windshield concept for the 2021 iNext

BMW thinks that we'd like to interact with our cars in a more humane way than we do today, engaging it in conversation. But that's never just using words, but with gestures, body language, and our gaze, which we use to convey meaning to one another....

Current CO2 emissions will heat up the Earth by more than 1.5˚C

Even if we stop building power plants, factories, vehicles and home appliances immediately, we're on track to increase the global temperature by more than 1.5˚C -- the goal limit proposed by the Paris Agreement. Those existing, CO2-spewing offenders...

Toyota will add automatic engine shut off and auto-park to all new vehicles

Beginning with model year 2020, Toyota will include automatic engine shut off and auto-park features in its new vehicles. If a vehicle is left running for a predetermined amount of time, the engine will automatically shut off. If a driver exits a veh...