When Toyota Prius owners take their cars to the dealer under the company's latest of its ongoing recalls, they'll likely be out of the shop in about 30mins. Even though the recall has to do with a ...

Self-driving cars have hit the streets of several US cities. And even in human-driven cars, giant tablet screens and automated driver assistance features can make it feel like a computer is your ...

Toyota's recall of its Prius model this week wasn't down to a mechanical fault but a software glitch. Increasingly, computers are in control of our cars, says Paul Horrell, and that is changing our ...

A global fleet of about a billion autonomous vehicles, each driving just for one hour per day, may generate about the same amount of carbon emissions as data centres currently do, according to a new ...

New vehicles are increasingly reliant on so-called “embedded systems”, small but sophisticated computers that control an array of functions including door locking, engine ignition, navigation, brakes ...

A sophisticated in-car computer could soon make it impossible for motorists to speed. The system detects the speed limit and automatically slows the car if it is being driven too quickly. It pinpoints ...

A shortage of new vehicles has sent second-hand car prices soaring, new figures suggest. According to research from AA Cars, buying some of the UK’s most popular used cars now costs up to 57% more ...

Sadly, nothing new in the computer world remains new for long. In 1965, Gordon Moore (one of the founders of Intel Corporation) published a paper predicting that computing power would double every two ...