How Car Computers Work

Each year, cars seem to get more and more complicated --cars today might use as many 50 microprocessors! Although they can make it more difficult for you to work on your own car, some microprocessors actually make your car easier to service.

How do they create the hopping cars you see in the movies?

I would really like to know how people can make their cars jump up and down with their front wheels like they do in movies like "Boyz in the Hood."

How Lowriders Work

Lowriders are decked-out cars with lowered suspensions that rumble, growl and even dance their way to parks, streets and cruise-ins. So how do you lower and raise a car's suspension?

How Self-parking Cars Work

With parking space limited in big cities, squeezing your car into a tiny space is a vital skill. Learn how self-parking cars can remove the difficulty stress and uncertainty of this chore.

How the GMC PAD Works

The GMC PAD is basically a futuristic motor home -- part apartment, part vehicle, and part telecommunications center.

What if I tried to drive my car underwater?

People drive underwater all the time in movies. But this isn't the movies. In reality, your car would stop running almost immediately.

Why are the sales of electronics for your car expected to rise 12 percent this year?

GPS receiver, iPod docking station, keyless entry -- we don't think twice about these gadgets for our cars. What's going on with telematics sales?

What does the computer in a car do

What does the computer in a car do? What was the Y2K scare about our cars starting?

Will we ever have space ships parked in our garages

Will we ever have spaceships parked in our garages so that we can fly to the moon whenever we feel like it?