Forward collision warning (FCW) systems act like an ever-vigilant guardian angel, watching for potential trouble. They provide visual, audible, and/or tactile alerts to warn a driver of an impending ...

Last month, BMW debuted its new Emergency Call tech – a system which, when activated, would connect to an agent capable of bringing first responders to the scene. Nifty, right? Now, we hear that the ...

DETROIT - The 2014 Chevrolet Impala was the only non-luxury car to earn the highest safety rating in new tests of high-tech crash prevention systems. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) ...

Now: $295 for collision warning and lane departure warning system and color LCD standard. This is possible because it uses a cheap camera instead of pricey radar. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...

Ford becomes one of the first volume brands to offer a collision warning system with pedestrian detection. The first use of automatic braking will be on the 2015 Mondeo that is about to go on sale in ...

This story appears in the Sept. 22 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe today. Heavy-duty truck components supplier Eaton Corp. said its Vorad VS-400 collision-warning system has ...

For some reason, I've always spent a lot of time driving. There was that decade where my in-laws lived 650 miles away, making for many long weekends spent on narrow, Northern Ontario highways. Then 13 ...

New automobiles are reaching dealerships with all manner of sophisticated lifesaving technology, like collision-warning systems and automatic braking. But older cars can be outfitted with similar ...

Forward-collision warning (FCW) technology provides a visual, audible, and/or tactile alert to warn the driver of an impending collision with a car or object directly in its path. IIHS data show that ...