Safety

Mazda Recall Expands to over 370,000 Vehicles Nationwide

If you drive your own vehicle, you know how important it is to maintain it and make sure you are safe when you drive. One of the safety steps is to be aware of any recalls that may affect your vehicle and take the necessary steps as soon as possible to fix the recall issue. In fact, the closing of 2015 saw the recall of more than 622,000 vehicles from several different automakers, including Buick,

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Keyless Ignition Vehicles Tied to Carbon Monoxide Deaths

If you own a car, truck or SUV with a keyless ignition, you are part of a growing number of new vehicle owners who can start their rides with a push of a button. The convenience of keyless ignition vehicles can be alluring yet potentially dangerous. For instance, a driver can forget to push the button on their key fob (pictured) after it’s no longer inside the vehicle. Forgetting this critical st

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Why Autonomous Autos?

By now it is no secret, within the next few years, traditional cars will start to be challenged by their robotic brethren; Autonomous Autos. Some of those on the production side of the equation; Elon Musk; says that the introduction of all out self driving cars will make not only traditional cars but traditional drivers obsolete. To be fair, the autopilot feature on the Tesla Models S and X, alrea

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Raid on Renault

Renault is not a name that Americans hear very often, they are more well known for their work in Europe. The French company may not be a household name, but it often masquerades in others’ clothing. The Nissan Renault alliance is the Fourth Largest Automaker behind General Motors (GM), unfortunately they have not safely raided the US shores. I like French cars for the same reason I love Italian o

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The Rise of RoboCars

By the 1990s; before autonomous autos even became a fantasy; most technology in cars were in a bit of a rut, most or all of the major technologies necessary for an internal combustion engine to work properly was discovered. Then it became a shootout, how much power could be generated from one engine? The habit was so ingrained that even mechanics devoted themselves to improving on the manufacturer

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Potential Partnership: Google and Ford

The future of cars is steering itself towards autonomous technology; surprisingly, it is not an automaker guiding that charge, but Google. The tech titan (not project titan) had a head start on the competition, in that it already had a well documented and extensive on the US automotive infrastructure, and not to mention access to a myriad of satellites. Now, Google is rumored to be trying to (pote

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Google’s Next Innovation: Talking Self-Driving Vehicles

We here at Auto Publishers pride ourselves at staying ahead of the latest trends affecting the automotive world. One of the points we’ve been consistent about is that a future with self-driving vehicles in it will soon be upon us. While that may sound awesome in the abstract (or perhaps scary, depending on your point of view), there are still plenty of legal issues to be worked out, to say nothing

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Hot Wheels, Cold Thieves: The Most Stolen Cars in 2014

For many of us, our passion for cars likely originated with the Hot Wheels we used to play with as kids. Not only were those miniature die-cast toy cars our first experience with vehicle ownership, they also paved the way for the deep and abiding love we feel for our cars to this day. Unfortunately, this story isn’t about those Hot Wheels, but rather about the kinds of hot wheels that get stolen

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Takata Corporation: Blood in the Water

A relatively unknown contractor for airbags went from niche notability, to household name for all the wrong reasons; a recall has cut Takata Corporation so deep that it may never recover; sharks in the water smell blood, and there is not a single life raft in sight. By now everyone has heard about the claymore airbags (something like this with a higher propensity for casualties (Explicit language

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Bicyclist Thwarts Google’s Self-Driving Car

After having crossed the 1.1 million mile threshold, Google’s self-driving car project has gained significant traction. We told you a few months ago about the company’s latest move, which was to conduct road tests in Austin, TX. This is significant because it offers Google the opportunity to test their vehicles in real-life conditions and to work out any kinks with the self-driving technology. Sou

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