Each year, Autoblog's editors evaluate all of the latest and greatest automotive advancements. Our Technology of the Year award is given to one feature that best exemplifies progress and new ways of thinking about vehicle tech.
VW and Google's new SmileDrive app is a way to boost the social fun factor of road trips and everyday commuting, all while remaining safely undistracted by data the app logs as you motor along.
From the moment cars equipped with MyFord Touch rolled off the assembly line two short years ago, the infotainment system has been a black eye for the company.
Siri is already becoming a more prominent fixture in our vehicles as Apple finds ways to collaborate with car makers. Now we've got a glimpse at what other vehicular developments are coming from the tech giant.
The traditional model of the Chevy Cruze sold more than 280,000 vehicles in the North American market last year. How many will the turbo-diesel model sell?
Amid continued customer criticism of its MyFord Touch infotainment technology, Ford Motor Company has announced that it will bring back some conventional analog knobs for functions such as volume control and radio tuning in vehicles equipped with the system.
OnStar pioneered the connected car, offering emergency services and navigation functions to drivers.
Don't be surprised if you see a Cadillac on the road later this year being driven by a driver whose got both arms up in the air.
AOL Autos in January set out to give a 2013 Dodge Dart Limited equipped with Uconnect to a reader, and our winner is Jennifer Johansen, a wife and mother of two young daughters.
AOL Autos set out in January 2012 to name our first ever Technology of the Year Winner. And we are happy to announce that Chrysler's upgraded Uconnect system introduced in the 2013 Ram 1500 and Dodge Viper, and soon to be rolled into the rest of the Chrysler-Ram-Dodge-Jeep lineup, won over both our judging panel, as well as out consumer voters.
When planning the first ever Technology of the Year Award, our colleagues at AOL Autos decided early on that it would be great to give away the winning technology. Since all of this tech comes attached to vehicles, that meant giving away another car!
The first annual AOL Autos Technology of the Year Award has been won by Chrysler's upgraded UConnect system.
Our sister site, AOL Autos, has been working hard all year to collect and narrow down this year's most interesting and innovative automotive technologies into six finalists for its inaugural Technology of the Year Award.
New vehicles today come with more new technology than ever before: systems that try to make our smartphones and MP3 players work seamlessly by voice command with car stereos, tech that keeps us from crashing and systems that even nudge us awake if we doze.
The pickup truck for many is really a rolling office. That's why Chrysler and Sprint chose the redesigned 2013 Ram 1500 as one of the vehicles to debut a new connectivity system -- Uconnect Access.
Audi connect was not new for 2012, but the addition of Google Earth imaging into the system is an upgrade that was met with nearly unanimous votes from the Technology of the Year judging panel.
Managing one's fitness schedule and calorie burn via smartphone app makes sense and is becoming more common. We can set our digital-video-recorders via app, and control our home thermostats the same way.
Lane-departure warning systems have appeared on the offerings of almost every carmaker over the past few years. But Honda, with its new LaneWatch™ system, has added a new technology that's different than most of those systems, and perhaps ahead of the pack.
Some new and emerging technology costs thousands of dollars to install in a car, and can be more distracting than helpful. And then there are brilliant strokes of simple genius. The Nissan Tire Pressure Alert & Refill System is just such a technology. It is so simple that we even hesitate to call it "tech." Perhaps that's the beauty of it.
At first sitting, the Cadillac CUE system was shocking in the XTS. After all, this car replaced the DTS and STS sedans, whose average age buyer was north of 60 years old.
