One reason that today's vehicles are the safest in history is that, since 1968, all vehicles come equipped with dual brake systems to ensure that if one set of brakes fails, the other set can still ...

You couldn’t accuse Volvo of ignoring those people at risk of encountering the exterior of its vehicles rather than sitting inside them. The Swedish automotive manufacturer has already introduced ...

The reason an Uber self-driving car fatally struck a pedestrian in March is coming into sharper focus, thanks to the release of a preliminary report on Thursday from the National Transportation Safety ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Nearly one-third of all car crashes involve rear-end collisions. And in nearly half of those, the driver never touched the brakes. Volvo has been developing collision warning systems for years. The ...

Doug Speck, Senior Vice President Marketing, Sales and Customer Service at Volvo Car Group, literally rolled out another Volvo world first in automotive safety at a press conference at the 2013 Geneva ...

Automakers say they're a safety assistant, not a guarantee. Modern vehicles are equipped with a wide range of driver-assist systems, but a new study from AAA emphasizes these are designed to assist ...

Quick, what American car was first with four-wheel disc brakes? Gotta be the '65 Corvette, right? After all, with Duntov's incessant push to pack the latest technology into GM's fiberglass flagship, ...

Any sports car driver who has ever grimaced at the sound of their front end scraping on the pavement will likely be excited to hear this: Ferrari has filed for a new patent on an auto-braking system ...

Being the hopeless hot rodders we are it's only natural that we all like going fast. But, as much fun as we may have doing so, at one point or another we're gonna have to slow down or even stop. So, ...

Volvo V60 Pedestrian Detection test failures – Click above to watch the videos Volvo officials themselves cautioned… that the system may not always detect the dummy’s presence. According to Aussie ...

The simple act of parking your car is the focus of extraordinary technology. Backup cameras and warning sensors have become old hat. Surround-view cameras are slowly arriving, and the big step is cars ...