Subaru Joins Assisted-Driving Wave
The idea is to prevent the unexpected from becoming the tragically final. That is the real story behind the outburst of acronyms characterizing the technology of the 2016 Subaru Forester 2XT Touring and hundreds of other new cars and trucks. After decades of pretending that safety does not matter, that more horsepower is always better, that the only real driving concern is finding an empty road on which to “take corners,” the...
Google Car Being Tested for Weird Situations
Detroit — Google is concentrating its autonomous car testing on the more difficult and unpredictable scenarios that crop up on surface streets more often than on freeways. Speaking at the Automated Vehicle Symposium Wednesday in Ypsilanti, about 30 miles west of Detroit, Chris Urmson, director of Google’s self-driving cars, showed a variety of scenes the cars have confronted on surface streets around the company’s Mountain View,...
