We have a 2007 Dodge Caravan with the factory audio system. It has no audio control buttons on the wheel, but it does have cruise control buttons: I have never used cruise control. I will never use ...

Like the automakers themselves, suppliers will have to adapt their products to a future world of autonomous driving. ZF already has ideas about how to do that. The German company previously theorized ...

It can sometimes feel like the arc of progress only moves in one direction and that it’s always making our lives worse. As car makers get turned on to technology—pushed by customers begging to see ...

Stellantis has filed a patent for what appears to be a yoke-style steering-throttle-braking type of steering "wheel/control", similar to Tesla's approach to the steering-yoke, but deleting the foot ...

Official documents published by the US Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday reveal that Apple has been granted a patent for a steering wheel remote control. The patent covers a device that clips on ...

Honda wants to reinvent the steering wheel. The automobile manufacturer announced on Monday that it plans to show a futuristic convertible at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in a few weeks.

Volkswagen has been listening. All of the complaints, from both customers and media members, about its move to touch-sensitive steering wheel and interior buttons have been heard and VW is getting rid ...

There is no question that steering wheel mounted controls are super convenient. Reaching all the way over to the dashboard to change a radio station is so 1990’s. An ever-increasing percentage of new ...

"GT Academy winners Wolfgang Reip and Lucas Ordóñez – plus three-time Japanese Super GT champion Satoshi Motoyama – have a totally new set of buttons to learn when they jump behind the wheel of the ...

While the car industry has been trying to make endless screens and finicky touch inputs the standard for years now, buyers haven’t exactly welcomed these kinds of changes. Quite the opposite. If ...

AUTOS-CONSUMER-Odd steering wheel and controls trip up Tesla, rivals -Consumer Reports DETROIT: Automakers are adopting new technology and designs for vehicle controls faster than ever, but that does ...