Yoko Kojima loves zipping around Tokyo in her Daihatsu Tanto with its lil’ wheels and pint-sized engine, but Japan’s beloved kei minicars may have a rocky road ahead despite a legion of loyal fans.
Sales of the cutesy box-shaped cars, a staple of the world’s number three vehicle market, drove off a cliff after peaking at Two.27 million units in 2014. Continue reading
Race To Build Self-Driving Cars Accelerates
Car electronics supplier Delphi Automotive Plc went coast-to-coast in two thousand fifteen in a self-driving Audi Q5 sport-utility vehicle to prove the autonomous automobile had arrived.
Now, Delphi is shifting from stunts to selling. Continue reading
Rental car giant Hertz has admitted it has cameras installed in about one in eight of its cars in the United States. But those cameras — built into Hertz’s NeverLost dashboard assistant that offers routing help and local city guides — have never been turned on, Hertz has said, loudly and repeatedly. Continue reading
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Some thirty one years ago, engineers at Suzuki Motors Japan developed the 2nd generation of Suzuki Alto, better known to us as the ‘Suzuki Mehran’. Continue reading
A backover incident typically takes place when a car is backing out of a driveway or parking space. Every year, thousands of children are killed or gravely injured because a driver backing up didn’t see them. Learn More
Every year, thousands of children are hurt or die because a driver moving forward very leisurely didn’t see them. Continue reading
Renault featured among the top car brands in a ranking of European vehicles with the lowest carbon emissions. (Eric Piermont / AFP)
Amir Vahdat and Aya Batrawy, The Associated Press
Published Monday, August 7, two thousand seventeen Four:50AM EDT