PowerConn USA Inc.

12/10/2016

After a successful six-month test using 11 railcars on all lines, Metra recently announced that it would add free cellular Wi-Fi hotspots to 50 more cars.

10/05/2016

Wheel boots are heavy and cumbersome to carry, plus the people who put them on typically have to kneel dangerously close to passing traffic. That's why New York-based Ideas That Stick developed the windshield-blocking Barnacle.

09/22/2016

New safety device for buses

Volvo goes to some effort to protect the safety of not just passengers inside its vehicles, but those on the outside, too. Now the company is fitting its detection tech to its fleet of buses, which will begin automatically sounding warnings to alert unprotected road users of potential collisions.

05/30/2016

05/26/2016

Bosch has whipped the covers off an all-electric motorsport kart prototype​ concept. With 300 Nm (221 lb.ft) of torque on tap, the e-kart will hit 130 km/h (81 mph) and promises to give gas-powered go-karts a run for their money. ​

04/06/2016

Daimler has let three of its autonomous trucks loose on public roads, setting them the task of driving from Stuttgart to Rotterdam as a fully connected platoon. As well as demonstrating the scope of Daimler's own autonomous tech, the road trip is a part of the European Truck Platooning Challenge.

04/05/2016

Fascinating.

04/05/2016

Car driving itself = yes, driver's = no, happening really soon

04/05/2016

Drivers don't required soon.

04/05/2016

This is an amazing F1 concept car

McLaren says that it wanted to peer into the future and “imagine the art of the impossible.” In doing so, the company’s design team has created the McLaren MP4-X Formula One race car. This is a sleek, powerful ride that makes the current crop of tech used in F1 racing look primitive.

04/05/2016

Amazing example of F-Zero technology

Believe it or not, autonomous race cars will soon be battling it out on the track. Last week, Roborace's newly-appointed design chief Daniel Simon released the first look at the Roborace car.​

03/18/2016

Nice move to safer roads

We may still be some way off having fully autonomous cars to drive us around, but many of today's cars already have semi-autonomous driver assistance features, such as automatic emergency braking. Indeed, twenty carmakers have just committed to making AEB standard on new cars in the US by 2022.