CES 2017: VIRTUAL ASSISTANTS ARE EN ROUTE FROM BIG TECH

  Restaurant recommendations and reservations, upcoming appointment reminders as you drive—your next car is slated to quickly become the savvy personal assistant you always dreamed of having. While she may not be ready to iron your shirts or walk the dog at bedtime, auto-tech advances are coming fast and furious, so who knows what’s around the corner? […]

Dear fans, we have all been hearing and likely thinking of our automotive future and top of the talk is autonomous vehicles. I recall a recent conversation with a best friend who was trying to get his 80 years old father to give up driving for safety reasons. I said to him, “I do not […]

Trail Rated Jeep Certification Means Your Jeep is Ready to Rock ‘n Roll Are you a Mississauga Jeep enthusiast with a passion for adventure? If your Jeep has been Trail Rated, then you are ready for the greatest traction and water fording possible. Not only that, the toughest terrain has put your Jeep to the […]

After over 30 automotive experts from around the world were interviewed by McKinsey and Company on the potential impact of widespread adoption of autonomous vehicles. It turns out that the effect on the automotive industry, the economy, on how we travel from one place to another, and on society overall are all potentially huge. Here […]

Anyone in Mississauga or Brampton knows that when Apple becomes involved in your fate, you never know what can happen. That’s what happened to Kanata, Ontario, an Ottawa suburb with a lot of clout. Not only does it have BlackBerry’s QNX office in its boundaries, it also now has Apple opened up an office there […]

Mississauga and Brampton drivers will be happy to know that Navdy, a Heads Up Display that uses projection to make cars smarter, is now on the market and selling for $799.  Navdy was first introduced in 2014 as a crowdsourcing model that ultimately raised 2.5 million dollars. A couple of years later with 26 million […]

The next time you swill back a cold Budweiser brew, it just might have been delivered to your favourite Mississauga restaurant or bar in a driverless Uber Otto truck! In Colorado, Otto just delivered its first self-driving cargo of beer for Anheuser-Busch InBev, the makers of the famous Budweiser. James Sembrot, Anheuser-Busch InBev’s logistics director, […]

If you saw a Google Express delivery van driving down your Mississauga street tomorrow morning, would you think it’s a normal thing to see? Or would you wonder what Google is doing in a truck, and why it’s suddenly delivering goods to consumers at their homes. Turns out that Google is clawing back some online […]

If you’ve ever been curious about what it feels like to be in an automously-driven car, you might just get that chance. If you go to Pittsburgh at least. Uber in Pittsburgh is working with Volvo to launch six Volvo XC90 self-driving cars this month. In the initial test phase, each Uber customer who gets […]

If you’ve never heard of “white-hat hackers”, you will certainly appreciate how valuable they are when it comes to figuring out everything there is to know about how to hack into a car, so that it can be stopped. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has taken a giant leap forward by using white-hat hackers to fight crime, […]