Electronics

As East Coast residents recover from Hurricane Sandy, they'll be surveying their businesses, homes and cars and trying to decide what's salvageable. Here are some tips from Car Talk hosts Tom and Ray Magliozzi about whether that flooded car is......

It's shaping up to be something of a landmark day in the history of driverless and semi-driverless cars; this week's 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas brings autonomous-automobile announcements from at least two major automakers. At a press...

Don???t worry: Porsche, Ford and Subaru aren???t preloading 1980s??? pop band A-ha???s discography into every car. This Aha integration by Porsche, Ford and Subaru announced at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is the Aha mobile...

Anyone with old electronics knows all too well that batteries lose capacity as they age: Start the day on a full charge and that old BlackBerry is running on empty by midafternoon. It's more vexing when it happens with your......

Texting and other electronic usage cause up to 25% of all car crashes, according to a report by the Governors Highway Safety Association, a nonprofit group working to improve traffic safety. Put another way, nearly 5,500 vehicular-related deaths can be......

Competes with: Audi A3, BMW 1 Series, Buick Verano, Acura ILX Looks like: Swoopy "four-door coupe" styling, high-tech interior Drivetrain: 208-hp, turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder, seven-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission, optional all-wheel-...

Audi continues to advance in-car wireless communication with today's unveiling of the 2013 A3 with 4G LTE connectivity at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. "With peak data rates approaching 100 megabits per second, the enhanced Audi...

Until now, new-car shoppers who want a navigation system have to pick a more expensive navigation-equipped vehicle at the dealership or have an aftermarket system installed into a lower trim level. At this week's 2013 Consumer Electronics Show, Chrysler...

When Nissan began taking reservations for the Leaf all-electric car in April 2010, Greg Tyler was among the first to plop down the $99 fee. Nineteen months later, the 59-year-old college professor was handed the keys. "The Leaf was the......

Thanks to our editors, shopping for the newest cars on the market is now easier. No more wading through complicated jargon and multiple sources: We've made it easier with this compact, elegantly designed electronic guide (a new model itself!). "The......

Updated Dec. 7, 2012 Thousands of American lives have already been saved by electronic stability control systems, with many thousands more to come as the technology becomes as standard as seat belts and airbags, according to a National Highway Traffic.......

You know the old saying, "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." Not in Hollywood. The city's $86,000 electronic clocks on the water tower at I-95 and Sheridan Street are completely kaput again, the latest in a never-ending......