Driver Assist Tech Tackles Hydroplaning By Gary Witzenburg 05/09/2018 1:00pmPrevious We’ve all experienced hydroplaning (aka aquaplaning). That’s when your front tires lose traction, and therefore both steering and braking, on a wet surface. It feels like skating on ice and can have similar bad results–very scary, sometimes disastrous. But unlike sliding on […]
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Electronic Stability Control: Everything You Need To Know By Chris Hardesty 05/31/2023 4:00pm Quick Facts About Electronic Stability Control Electronic stability control, or ESC, is an automatic system in your car designed to help keep you on course when steering. Continue reading to learn about ESC and how this automotive safety feature works to prevent accidents
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Car Safety Features 101: Everything You Need to Know By Russ Heaps 04/14/2023 4:00pm Quick Facts About Car Safety Features Our car safety features guide is an auto safety history lesson and a comprehensive list of modern automotive safety tech. For decades, automakers fiercely resisted prominently marketing safety features to the public. For example, seat
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No, That Car Is Not Self-Driving By Sean Tucker 10/11/2022 8:22am There are no self-driving cars for sale in America today. But the guy next to you in traffic may think he has one. See that sandwich? He’s trusting that car a little too much. That’s the unsettling conclusion of a new study from one
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Mercedes Gets Approval for Some Self-Driving Tech in Nevada By Sean Tucker 01/09/2023 8:26am Owners of some Mercedes-Benz vehicles will be able to legally take their hands off the wheel and their eyes off the road in Nevada soon. The state’s Department of Motor Vehicles said Thursday that the automaker could self-certify that its Drive
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California Approves Mercedes’ Hands-Free, Eyes-Off System, With Limits By Sean Tucker 06/12/2023 9:25am Owners of some Mercedes-Benz vehicles will be able to legally take their hands off the wheel and their eyes off the road under limited circumstances in California soon. The California Department of Motor Vehicles has approved the use of Mercedes’ Drive Pilot
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Thanks to Mercedes, Turquoise Lights Mean Self-Driving By Sean Tucker 12/19/2023 8:22am A future of self-driving cars will introduce all kinds of new problems for society to solve. Among them: How are we to know when the car is doing the driving? Mercedes has solved that problem. We’ll just look for the turquoise-colored marker lights.
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Adaptive Cruise Control: How Does It Work? By Russ Heaps 07/21/2022 12:00pm When carmakers pitched cruise control to the American public more than half a century ago, they framed it as a way to maintain a safe, consistent speed on the highway and a path to conserving fuel. Although the fuel savings were minimal, both
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Lane-Keeping Assist: Everything You Need to Know By Russ Heaps 05/16/2023 12:00pm Quick Facts About Lane-Keeping Assist In the lexicon of today’s driver-assistance technology, Lane-Keeping Assist (LKA) is a feature we hear about often. Also called Lane-Keep Assist, it is one of the building blocks in the foundation of fully autonomous cars. Staying within the
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Power Steering Guide: Everything You Need to Know By Chris Hardesty 08/17/2023 1:35pm Quick Facts About Power Steering Before automakers introduced power steering in the 1950s, drivers needed to work harder with their steering wheels to keep their vehicles straight or make turns. The simple steering mechanisms of more than a half-century ago have since
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