A data leak led to around 800,000 Volkswagen (VW) electric vehicles (EVs) having their location exposed online for several months, according to a report by German news magazine Der Spiegel. The global ...

Buying a car used to be a strictly in-person, face-to-face experience. Those days, much like Oldsmobile and Pontiac, are no longer. For those who prefer to skip the salesy song and dance at a ...

The Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Technology has issued a warning to automakers that sell connected cars. Companies that offer such products “do not have the free license to monetize people’s ...

Few Ars readers will have been surprised by the news from last week concerning General Motors’ connected cars. As The New York Times reported, some owners of vehicles made by General Motors have been ...

Modern cars generate a ton of data on their drivers and occupants, not all of which you’d like to share with the broader world. Yet that’s exactly the issue uncovered in a recent New York Times report ...

The Side Car app is a catalyst for CarPlay users, offering a wealth of features and functionalities that transform how you interact with your vehicle’s data. With Side Car, you can: The Side Car app’s ...

These days we’re connected to the world 24/7, primarily through our smartphones but also by other devices that can track our whereabouts and capture personal data such as sleep patterns, heart rate, ...

Our cars are spying on us and two Senators are calling on the FTC to launch an investigation aimed at making it stop. Reading time 4 minutes Senators Ron Wyden a Democrat from Oregon, and Edward ...

LexisNexis, which generates consumer risk profiles for the insurers, knew about every trip G.M. drivers had taken in their cars, including when they sped, braked too hard or accelerated rapidly. Some ...

Compared to human drivers, Waymo cars were involved in 91 percent fewer crashes that resulted in serious injuries.

The number of people who live in Seattle keeps growing. But the number of cars owned or leased by Seattle residents hasn’t budged in years. As a result, Seattle just hit something of a milestone. New ...