Never heard of UN Regulation 171? BMW’s Neue Klasse SUV is the first vehicle to earn Driver Control Assistance Systems (DCAS) certification. This was a new one on us too, but BMW engineering director ...

As the race for autonomous driving technology and advanced driver assist systems (ADAS) continues to ramp up, Swedish electric-vehicle (EV) maker Polestar has introduced an advanced safety tech ...

It’s alright to be fashionably late, but you better arrive put together or with a heck of a story. In the case of Stellantis’ Hands-Free Active Driver Assist system, it’s neither. Quietly launched in ...

U.N. ECE Regulation No. 171 (DCAS) went into force in the European Union in September 2024, and applies to all new vehicles offering “SAE level 2” driver assist systems (those that provide both ...

A Ford engineer and her husband were driving their new F-150 pickup in May when something went terribly wrong. The engineer told Ford they were using Ford’s hands-free driving system, BlueCruise, ...

Cruise control has become one of the most common convenience features in modern cars. On long highway drives it reduces driver fatigue, helps maintain a constant speed, and lowers the risk of ...