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  • 1 week ago | cars.usnews.com | Kristen Hall-Geisler |Rachel Shuster |Cody Trotter

    Tesla Autopilot has been around longer than you might think. It was first introduced in 2014, when Tesla had a single model on the market, the Model S. It was one of the more full-featured advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) available at the time. Over the past decade, Autopilot has become more sophisticated and has seen several major changes to its hardware. Also over the past decade, ADAS systems offered by almost every manufacturer on almost every new car have caught up to Tesla Autopilot.

  • 3 weeks ago | cars.usnews.com | Victoria Scott |Kristen Hall-Geisler |Cody Trotter

    Lane-departure warning (LDW) and lane-keep assist (LKA) are two technologies that operate on the same principle: generally, you want to keep your car in its lane. That’s why highways have loud rumble strips next to the shoulders, for example. If you start getting tired or distracted and drift out of your lane, it can easily lead to an accident.

  • 3 weeks ago | cars.usnews.com | Victoria Scott |Kristen Hall-Geisler |Nate Parsons

    The proliferation of electric cars on American roads in recent years has brought with it an immense amount of technology and terminology. Many car shoppers are familiar with what a hybrid is (a car that uses both gas and electric power to move), but there are many different types of hybrids underneath that umbrella. A “mild hybrid” design has become commonplace in recent years, especially with luxury automakers.

  • 1 month ago | cars.usnews.com | Kristen Hall-Geisler |Warren Clarke |Nate Parsons

    CreditAmerican Honda Motor Co., Inc.|Which Cars Are the Most American? The auto industry has had a rocky 2025 so far, with the addition, and retraction, and addition, and retraction of tariffs on cars and parts manufactured outside the United States. These tariffs are expected to add thousands of dollars to the price of new vehicles, putting a squeeze on both production and consumer demand.

  • 1 month ago | cars.usnews.com | Kristen Hall-Geisler |Warren Clarke |Nate Parsons

    Heat pumps are a hot topic these days (pun intended). Many homeowners are opting for this climate-friendlier technology when it comes time to replace or upgrade their home heating systems, but did you know that heat pumps are making their way into cars too? Specifically, they're used in electric vehicles, which don't have an internal combustion engine pouring out excess heat.