Researchers have created a computer program that allows a car to stay in its lane without human control, opening the door to the development of new automobile safety features and military ...

The Computer History Museum wanted to show the life and death impact software can have on the world and chose to illustrate that with a display dedicated to automobile crash testing.

Harman International, one of the world’s biggest makers of in-car media systems, has agreed to buy two software companies for $950 million in cash and stock that will facilitate over-the-air ...

CarShark's a computer program that'll let someone hack into a car's onboard computer system to kill the brakes, disable the engine, blast music and otherwise wreak electronic havoc. It's both ...

During Nvidia's CES 2015 press conference, CEO Jen-Hsun Huang showed off the Drive PX computer, based on the just-announced Tegra X1 chip, enabling self-driving cars.

A wealth of information about your car's health is available by plugging into its computer system with scan tools. Here are five things you can do.

Federal highway regulators, aiming to help companies figure out how to meet safety standards when designing cars, are willing to consider a computer running an autonomous vehicle as the “driver.” ...