We have a 2007 Dodge Caravan with the factory audio system. It has no audio control buttons on the wheel, but it does have cruise control buttons: I have never used cruise control. I will never use ...
Car cabins are shifting back to tactile controls, giving drivers faster access to core functions and reducing distraction on ...
Autonomous cars are changing all of the rules, so ZF decided to go full "Pimp My Ride" by putting a 7-inch touchscreen with gesture control into a steering wheel. German automotive technology firm ZF ...
One of the best things about Android Auto is support for steering wheel buttons, so drivers can actually control apps and certain features without touching the screen. But as some of us discovered ...
GM has filed a patent application for a vehicle steering system with a built-in touchscreen, providing controls and reacting in real time to the driver's grip.
As smartphones and tablets become more ubiquitous in our ever more mobile world, driving becomes an increasingly dangerous activity. Local and federal governments are trying to enact hands-free laws ...
"GT Academy winners Wolfgang Reip and Lucas Ordóñez – plus three-time Japanese Super GT champion Satoshi Motoyama – have a totally new set of buttons to learn when they jump behind the wheel of the ...
My wife and I have an F31 (mid-2010s) BMW 3 Series station wagon that we like a lot. It’s comfortable, cool looking, decently engaging to drive, and not terrible on fuel consumption. We’ve had it for ...
It started with the Honda Jazz story. Europe's compact will be ditching full touchscreen control for knobs for functions like climate control. But we noticed the Jazz's steering wheel only had two ...
Like the automakers themselves, suppliers will have to adapt their products to a future world of autonomous driving. ZF already has ideas about how to do that. The German company previously theorized ...