Your tires take a beating, given the potholes and debris that lurk on roads and highways. With spring and summer road trips looming, checking and maintaining proper pressure in your tires is key to arriving safely. Helping with that task is your vehicle’s tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS). Every new light-duty vehicle since the 2008
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Category Archives: Technology
Automotive Suppliers Take Their Best Shot in “Pitch Pit”
The stakes were higher than ever for select automotive suppliers at this year’s Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) World Congress Experience (WCX18) as FCA US threw open the “Pitch Pit” on April 10 and April 11. Suppliers, who may not normally get a shot at talking with FCA US, were given a 30 minutes behind
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College students, FCA consider ways to ease shift to automated driving
Navigating the transition to automated driving is challenging – the sensing capabilities of vehicles needs to increase dramatically, while drivers need to adapt years of experience to sharing the road with data-controlled cars. With automated driving technologies still in the early stages of development, today’s younger drivers are at the center of the transformation. This
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Truck Thursday: 2019 Ram 1500 shakes it up for the long haul
High-strength steel, hydraulic cab mounts, 5-link suspension, Frequency Response Damping shocks. Yup! This week’s Truck Thursday is going underneath that beautiful ‘skin’ of the 2019 Ram 1500 for a look at how a durability ‘shake-up’ plays a big role in this all-new truck’s ‘no compromise’ durability promise. The Road Test Simulator is a key part of
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Truck Thursday: 2019 Ram 1500 leads segment with technology first
Can the NAV screen in your vehicle ever be TOO big? We all know the answer to that … no way! The larger the screen, the better your ability to easily pull-up, program and read information faster and more clearly at first glance. The all-new Ram 1500 has taken the lead in offering the first
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Bring on the Heat!
As temperatures and wind chills remain near record lows across the country, getting you and your family into a vehicle on a snowy, blustery day is challenging. Even on the best winter days, cold seats and a cold steering wheel just add another shock to your commute. And I think we all agree it’s no
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Get A Grip: AWD vs. 4WD
For much of the northern hemisphere, it’s cold outside, which means drivers need to think more about traction. Whether it is just a light dusting or several inches of snow (in places such as Atlanta, they’re practically the same thing), sending drive torque to all four wheels is desirable to keep things moving on streets
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