Automotive Technology
SALT LAKE CITY - A team of Ohio State University students hopes to earn a land speed record for an electric car after runs at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats.
MILAN - A pair of fender-benders, two technology-loving hitchhikers and 22 hours blocked at the Russian border.
PARMA, Italy - It's a modern-day version of Marco Polo's journey halfway around the world - but is anyone at the controls?
A team of Italian engineers on Tuesday launched what has been billed as the longest-ever test drive of driverless vehicles: a 13,000-kilometer (8,000-mile), three-month road trip from Italy to China, not in search of silk, but to test the limits of future automotive technology.
BOSTON - When Mary Burke recently took her 2007 Honda Element with its worn-out ignition switch to her regular repair shop, the mechanic didn't have the software to fix the problem.
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