DETROIT — The automotive and tech companies pursuing the driverless car share a utopian belief: Autonomous vehicles will benefit society, eventually saving most of the nearly 33,000 people killed each year in road accidents in America alone. http://www.autonews.com/article/20160429/OEM06/160429802/driverless-cars-could-save-lives-kill-businesses  

Talk about a reversal of fortune. It wasn’t long ago that a brutal combination of skyrocketing fuel prices, a slumping economy and changing consumer tastes left car dealers saddled with unsold inventories of powerful, yet fuel-swilling trucks and SUVs. http://www3.forbes.com/business/12-hottest-new-trucks-and-suvs-for-2016/?utm_campaign=Hottest-Trucks-SUVs&utm_source=yahoo-gemini&utm_medium=referral

While most of us likely envision a low-slung Ferrari or perhaps even a bright-red Corvette as being proverbial ticket magnets, the car that receives the most moving violations is far more sedate. https://www.yahoo.com/autos/10-most-and-least-ticketed-cars-015912656.html

A PEEK under the hood of three new cars from Volvo, Buick and Cadillac will not reveal a Made in China label. But those cars are breaking new ground in the auto industry, becoming the first to be manufactured in the People’s Republic and exported to the United States. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/29/automobiles/we-can-stop-chuckling-now-chinese-made-cars-have-arrived-in-us.html?ref=automobiles    

Drivers today face so many distractions getting from A to B. Text messages tempt us, email enchants us, and cellphone rings can seduce us like a siren’s call. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/24/science/driving-distractions-study.html?ref=automobiles&_r=0