How car computers work

Ahead of the government ban on petrol and diesel vehicles in 2030, Britain is set to be swamped with cheap Chinese electric cars. But do they represent value for money?

There was a time when bosses at car manufacturers didn’t like to talk about platforms – the mechanical underpinnings of their cars. These are expensive to develop, so big car companies share them acro

Some of today’s technology goes back much further than you’d imagine

DIGITAL 50 YEARS

Visiting Coventry in 1934, a centre of the motor industry, writer JB Priestley mused that, “The modern motor car represents an astonishing feat of human ingenuity. If we were one half so clever in the

I agree wholeheartedly with Illya Verpraet about adaptive cruise control (Testing, Testing, 4 June): it simply doesn’t work as it should and is inferior to normal cruise control. I find ACC as utterly