Tires are a huge vulnerability for vehicles. They go flat. They get a puncture. They’re both traction and suspension, soaking up the uneven bumps in the road surface. If they’re under or over inflated, they have a negative impact on…
At this point, electric vehicles are becoming more and more commonplace. That said, they tend to focus more on moving people – what if you need to move cargo? Electric trucks aren’t nearly as common, but that’s what the folks…
BOSS, makers of lower cost car a/v systems, have introduced four new wireless CarPlay receivers. What?s interesting is that they seem to be higher quality than we might normally expect of BOSS.Here?s why:…
Another day, another example shitty behavior from a big, popular company. This time it’s Tesla who basically shut down autopilot for a purchaser who picked up a used car. Let’s explore what happened and why it sucks.…
Alpine, Pioneer and JVC all introduced new touchscreen car audio at CES. The over-riding themes this year are, ‘larger screens’, and Amazon’s Alexa for Pioneer. …
Last week, we brought you word of a new night-vision camera/monitor system for your car (which you can see here). In that article, I had some concerns, which I heard back from the brand on. So, rather than burying that…
(There’s an update to this article, which can be read here) We, as a society, seem to be inundated with cameras. Some are there and we don?t even see them (public security cameras) and others we?re super aware of and…
If you?re thinking about reading up on the outdoors – planning an adventure, researching gear, and the like – Outdoors magazine has been one of the pre-eminent publication that folks think of (frankly, the boldly simple name seals the deal,…
Cars – these days – have a lot of tech built into them. At the same time, our phones have taken on more and more capability, and the trend has seen those phone-based features get integrated into cars via things…
Starting in January 2018, we started hearing about BMW’s plans to charge new BMW customers $80 a year to use Apple CarPlay in their cars. These plans were widely called stupid. BMW wants to charge for both the option and…