A large chimpanzee that was being kept as a pet by a Kansas City resident escaped Tuesday, running amok through a neighborhood, attempting to get into cars and smashing the windshield of a police car that responded to the scene."It was a bizarre lunch hour at 77th and Indiana," blogged Police Chief James Corwin. The [...]
OnStar, the remote vehicle information company that provides a number of services to car owners, announced this week that it had launched a new website - MyVolt.com - that will allow Chevy Volt owners to remotely control various vehicle functions.The MyVolt.com site will provide for a number of new features, including the ability to monitor [...]
The lingering economic malaise that has affected the U.S. since the housing crisis has caused Americans to take many cost-cutting measures in recent years. One of these, according to a study from AutoMD.com, is that motorists are doing their own car maintenance at a higher rate than before. Nearly all of those who responded to [...]
Despite an upswing in the number of methods a prospective car buyer has to protect him or herself from fraud, criminals continue to become more inventive in their pursuit of a fast buck, according to an article at consumer blog WalletPop.Indeed, writer Tom Kraeutler reports that many creative crooks have taken to using informational tools [...]
In the wake of the widespread recalls that caused an uproar in the national media, some Toyota owners who experienced the well-publicized problems with uncontrolled acceleration told a National Academy of Sciences panel about their specific cases, according to the Associated Press.The news organization says that the panel was convened to review the evidence for [...]
The price a consumer will pay for a new General Motors vehicle is going up, according to a report from Motor Trend magazine. The publication says that the company's average transaction price, or ATP, has been increasing as it heads toward its first initial public offering since accepting heavy government subsidies as part of an [...]
Japanese automakers Honda and Toyota were the big winners in Consumer Reports' most recent predicted vehicle reliability poll, even though both companies have recently issued large-scale recalls of some of their most popular models.All of the major Asian carmakers, in fact, were found to be solid performers in the survey. Acura, Honda, Hyundai, Toyota, Infiniti, [...]
An automated system that completely replaces a human driver has been produced by web giant Google, the company announced this weekend. The system has been tested on over 140,000 miles of California roadway, and Google says the results have been impressive."Our automated cars use video cameras, radar sensors and a laser range finder to 'see' [...]
Updated measurements of how likely cars are to protect their passengers in the event of a crash were rolled out earlier this week, according to a joint announcement from the U.S. Department of Transportation and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.Tests for vehicle safety will now include side pole crash testing, which simulates a car [...]
Michigan car thieves heavily preferred to target Chryslers over vehicles made by any other automaker in 2009, according to a report released late last month by the Michigan Auto Theft Prevention Authority.The group's executive director, Dan Vartanian, told the Detroit News "it is baffling. It has to be supply and demand: The parts are still [...]