Paddle shifters let drivers manually change gears in an automatic car without using a clutch or removing their hands from the ...

Self-driving cars promise safety, but new research shows human attention limits create hidden risks for everyday drivers.

The road to self-driving cars is a bumpy one, with automakers themselves creating potholes and taking consumers along for the ride. Tesla may be grabbing headlines, but many new cars from other brands ...

Only 4 percent of American drivers say that the vehicle they most often drive has a manual transmission, according to a May 2023 nationally representative CR survey (PDF) of 2,000 American adults. But ...

Automatic transmissions have been present in cars for over a century now, with the original concept being patented in the early 1920s. Since those early days, automatic transmission design has gone ...

Switching from a manual car to an automatic after 15 years requires small but important habit changes. Drivers must retrain ...

I know, I know: automatic transmissions make a car automatically lame. I think I can speak for the group when I say driving is typically more fun when you do the shifting. However, every rule has ...