Your next car purchase just became a surveillance decision. The House voted 268-164 on January 22, 2026 to reject an amendment that would have defunded federal enforcement of controversial “kill ...

The advanced technologies that are standard equipment in today’s cars were pure science fiction when I first started working on cars in the mid-1960s. One technology, telematics, is a double-edged ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Congress passed legislation requiring automakers to install technology that can "prevent or ...

Drunk driving is a serious problem anywhere that cars are on the road. Technology is available that could make it impossible to start a car if the driver is impaired. Lawmakers in the USA want to make ...

The Kia Challenge, which turned nearly every Kia and Hyundai parked outside into a sitting duck, has reached Loves Park, Illinois. Local police officers are telling owners to act fast and install ...

Essentially, the bill does not give any government control to host remote "kill switches" or permit automakers from giving government access to anyone's car. This is why everyone should be cautious in ...

Fifty-seven Republicans voted with the vast majority of Democrats on Thursday to keep a Biden-era mandate enabling government remote control of vehicles, drawing backlash from conservatives like ...

Starting with 2026 models, federal law requires passive driver monitoring technology in all new passenger vehicles. Section 24220 of the 2021 Infrastructure ...