On the Road to Autonomy

News this week on the electric vehicle (EV) front may have reminded one of the rather mean spirited admonishment from Steve Martin's character in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles : "When you're telling these little stories, have a point." That's the primary lesson to be learned from the demise of the Sony Honda Afeela. The Sony Afeela 1 was regularly ballyhooed at CES, the massive trade show in Las Vegas once dominated by the consumer electronics company, and much like the App

The much anticipated Consumer Reports annual top 10 picks for new cars, SUVs and light trucks is out again, and it reveals some interesting trends. Subaru is tops. While electrics have been growing in popularity and reliability, this is the first year that every model on the list is either fully electric, a hybrid, a plug-in hybrid, or available as one. It's both a reflection of the market and a reflection of CR's extensive testing. Simply put, hybrids and electrics are more

Traditionally, if a company introduced a couple of new products at the annual CES consumer electronics show, it was considered to be significant news. Dreame just exploded that quaint idea by introducing dozens of products, from laundry handling robots to health monitoring rings to action cameras--all at once. Dreame calls it a "Whole Home Ecosystem." We call it overwhelmingly impressive. At the CES 2026 show (January 6 to 9) in Las Vegas Dreame (pronounced "dreamy") rolled