There is a war of hyperbolic statements among enthusiasts, waged both in the comment sections of websites and in the texts of articles. Not one of worldly significance or anything that’d affect our ...

The conventional wisdom among car enthusiasts is that hydraulic power steering is good, and the electric-assist power-steering systems that have replaced it in most new cars are bad. Engineering ...

It used to be that if you wanted to drive, you had to have the arms for it. Older cars didn’t have power steering, and parking or even turning at low speeds could require a lot of strength to move the ...

Wayne Cunningham reviews cars and writes about automotive technology for CNET's Roadshow. Prior to the automotive beat, he covered spyware, Web building technologies, and computer hardware. He began ...