Dateline: Detroit, Michigan, 1981—in an effort to meet more stringent exhaust emissions and fuel economy standards, automakers have developed on-board computerized engine controls. With ignition ...

Here's what drives cars of the '80sâ the Electronic Computer Module(ECM).Typical GM unit has an analog board to run sensors, digital board for"thinking" and memory. Removable PROM(at left)calibrates ...

In 1979, the United States Congress approved a 1.5-billion-dollar bailout for one of the nation’s top ten corporations and the smallest of Detroit’s Big Three. Chrysler’s CEO Lee Iacocca himself ...

Forget flying cars. The next innovation will be vehicles you don’t even have to drive. But would we actually put our lives in the hands of a computer-controlled car? Earlier this month KPMG and the ...

Robin Smit is the founding Research Director at the Transport Energy/Emission Research (TER) consultancy. Alberto Ayala does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...