Autonomous vehicles have emerged as a revolutionary force, positioning to reshape the automotive industry forever. As we witness a gradual shift towards self-driving cars and trucks, it’s essential to explore the implications for parts management.

Before jumping feet-first into this rather heated debate, we’d like to preface with the following: at this stage, any opinion on shortages is little more than a shot in the dark. While we can use past trends to try and understand how our current predicament...

Car sharing is one of many new ideas emerging in the transportation industry. Modeled after homeowner services like Airbnb and VRBO, car-sharing gives car owners the opportunity to lease their vehicles directly to customers when they aren’t using them. The...

Shoppers are no longer relegated to the limited choices of used, new, or leased when searching for a vehicle. Now, in addition to the traditional options, car-shoppers can begin a car subscription service, which, in many cases, allows them to procure a...

While this series tends to focus on the future of the private sector of transportation, changes in the landscape of the automotive industry will likely manifest in public transportation early on and could indicate more about the industry at large. Today we’ll...

Starting in 1996 in the United States, on-board diagnostics were required for all new-built vehicles- forever changing the landscape of diagnostics and repair. While early systems reported on basics like fluid levels, each new iteration added a degree of...

You’ve heard it before: an electric vehicle takeover is inevitable. VW argues the pandemic has only sped up the race towards EV, while others say it’s all hype with no statistical backing. A Forbes analysis suggests exponential growth will render combustion...

In many ways, the future car is already here. With smart-phone reminiscent dashboards and self-driving progress made daily, the slow and steady march towards the smart-car / leisure pod is ongoing. Though the future of car interiors is rather predictable...

Most experts have assumed the larger rollout of autonomous vehicles would need to be accompanied by an ambitious plan for safe testing, and now it seems that mechanism has arrived in the form of an autonomous-only lane running between Ann Arbor and Detroit,...