Learning Center – The Automotive Insider Blog

Nearly twenty-nine years ago, Ross Perot famously quipped in a U.S. Presidential debate that “… you make more [revenue] making computer chips than you do potato chips,” while talking about how government can enable or disable technological advances.

Largely controlled by computer modules, semiconductors and software, today’s vehicles are more akin to smartphones than the rolling containers of mechanical parts of the past. The increasing dependence on sophisticated electronics and sensors is vastly improving vehicle performance, safety and ameni...

Per LIFE Magazine (Nov, 1967), there were only two cars in the entire state of Ohio in 1895, and legend has it that they collided with each other. Regardless of whether this tale predated the era of “fake news”, its cautionary tale suggests we humans sometimes misjudge risk until facing the conseque...

Sometimes when you exclaim the sky is unprotected, they mentally label you as Chicken Little and ignore your alarms. Or sometimes they might believe your warnings yet quietly follow the group inertia that’s the cornerstone of groupthink.

Mixing together safety and security for the connected car seems as natural as merging peanut butter and chocolate: both individual items thriving decades independently before the combination, but now together they can create a better product. For automotive, safety was birthed in the seminal court c...

The past month has been an incredible display of the future money and obstacles behind robotaxis, a.k.a. autonomous ride-hailing vehicles. From marketing studies to concerning crashes to angry politicians to corporate handwaving, we have seen why so many technologies climb to the thin air atop Gartn...