Cars are getting smarter. Today's vehicles can automatically brake to avoid a rear-end collision, keep themselves centered in a lane, warn of hazards in blind spots and even maintain a safe distance ...

Tesla cars got into 273 crashes in a span of less than a year while using driver assist technology including the company’s “Full Self Driving” and “Autopilot” features, according to new federal ...

In recent years, more and more vehicles at all manner of price points have come equipped with an array of advanced driver assistance systems as standard equipment. Studies from the Insurance Institute ...

Tesla on Saturday slashed the price of its Full Self-Driving (FSD) driver assistant software to $8,000 from $12,000 in the United States, as CEO Elon Musk reaffirms his commitment to self-driving ...

Advanced driver-assistance systems were supposed to make driving safer and less stressful, yet they are increasingly at the center of large, high-profile recalls. Instead of quietly smoothing out ...

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has conducted its first major test of partial-automation driving systems. In a battery of tests evaluating driver-assist features for seven different ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Brooke Crothers covers and reviews electric vehicles and autonomy. Tesla’s driver assistance technology often comes under ...

Adaptive cruise control, lane change assistance, collision avoidance, blind spot monitoring, autopilots: These are just a few of the driver-assist features that are arriving in new cars. As technology ...

America’s Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) examined the behavior of more than 40 drivers using two different types of car and driver-assist systems and discovered that the test subjects ...

Thirteen out of fourteen driver-assist systems received marginal or poor scores in a new Insurance Institute for Highway Safety rating system designed to assess system safety and driver focus. The ...