Discover 20 advanced automated car features—from self-parking to driver assists—that make driving safer and easier than ever.

From self-parking to hands-free driving, these features quietly make modern cars smarter.

It doesn't happen all the time, but every now and then your car may need to be towed. The thing is, regardless of whether you got stuck, ran out of gas, or had a fender bender, the rules are a bit ...

I know, I know: automatic transmissions make a car automatically lame. I think I can speak for the group when I say driving is typically more fun when you do the shifting. However, every rule has ...

For most drivers, a vehicle's automatic transmission — the most common kind of transmission nowadays, more's the pity — has three settings: Drive, Park, and Reverse. Most automatic transmissions, ...

Only 4 percent of American drivers say that the vehicle they most often drive has a manual transmission, according to a May 2023 nationally representative CR survey (PDF) of 2,000 American adults. But ...

Most new cars feature built-in technology that can automatically call for help in an emergency and give the precise location of the vehicle, even if drivers are unable to do so themselves. Called ...