James Moylan, who thought up the little arrow on your gas gauge that tells you what side of the car your fuel filler sits, ...

Before heaters became standard, drivers relied on gas lamps, heated stones, and charcoal -- methods that carried serious ...

The idea came to Moylan on a rainy day in April 1986 when he hopped in one of Ford's employee fleet cars to drive to a ...

Despite it being known for a long time that designing crash tests purely around male physiology, whatever the size, is a bad ...

Sometimes, you stumble upon an invention that makes you wonder, "How did they even think of this back then?" Some ideas were way ahead of their time, only to be forgotten or overshadowed by newer ...

Gage survived, but unfortunately, it wasn't a total happy ending. His friends and doctor said that, post-accident, he was “no ...

Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech) university life trustee Marty Cooper (EE ’50, M.S. ’57)—a pioneer in the ...

Europe has proposed to roll back its 2035 all-electric target, instead replacing it with a softer 90% reduction in automakers’ fleet CO₂ emissions, in what will be a major blow to the European auto ...

David Roberts is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Verra Mobility, a leading provider of smart mobility technology solutions. Crossing a city street today can feel almost as risky as it did ...

(NEXSTAR) – Cell providers all claim to have the best coverage, fastest speeds or most reliability in their ad campaigns. But who really comes out on top? Data released last month by the Federal ...

Car fans can often pinpoint a childhood memory of when the passion was born. Often, it’s a story that becomes family legend. This story originally appeared in Volume 32 of Road & Track. More From Vol ...