Uncategorized
-
Jeep’s Parent Has A Clever Fix For Rainwater Pouring Into Your Trunk
The company’s earlier version needed a water sensor and a control unit, and this one needs neither.
-
GM Wants Its EVs To Detect Battery Leaks Two Weeks Early
A new patent application has the car reading its own high-voltage wiring for the first signs of a leak, then deciding without the driver how much charging and power to take away.
-
Ferrari Says Its Own Radiator Heat Is Hurting Rear-Wing Downforce
Ferrari already steers hot radiator air up and over the hood of its most extreme road car, and its engineers now describe what happens when that air reaches the wing.
-
Toyota Wants Your Thumbs-Up Or Your Car May Stop Itself
A deliberate hand signal becomes the car’s way of asking the question driver-assist systems still answer badly, which is whether anyone is really in charge.
-
GM Patents Brakes That Back Off When You Accelerate
Cornering adds an unexpected complication to GM’s effort to keep released brakes from rubbing.
-
Jeep’s Parent Wants to Put Your Car’s Gauges Outside the Windshield
A French patent application moves the driver’s display to the far side of the glass, and the patent office’s own search suggests the idea is older than it looks.
-
Honk, Then Listen: Jeep’s Parent Wants Self-Driving Cars To Sound Out Blind Corners
A French patent application teaches an automated car the oldest courtesy on a mountain road, then goes quiet on what happens when nobody honks back.
-
Toyota’s Dog Mode Would Black Out The Windows Until You Walk Back To The Car
Tesla and Rivian use the center screen to reassure people on the sidewalk, and Toyota’s version switches that screen off.
-
Rivian Isn’t Giving Up on Its Smaller Electric Pickup Idea
The pickup name has outlasted two applications without ever reaching a vehicle, and the timing of the newest one is no accident.
-
Ford Wants to Stop Oncoming Cars Mistaking Trucks for Motorcycles
A newly granted patent treats a burned-out headlamp as the other driver’s problem too, and gives both vehicles a job to do.