Many modern cars equipped with automatic transmissions have a D/S setting on their shift selectors. What this means changes slightly across different models.

Discover 20 advanced automated car features—from self-parking to driver assists—that make driving safer and easier than ever.

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From self-parking to hands-free driving, these features quietly make modern cars smarter.

The type of transmission in your car dramatically impacts how it drives and what's required from the driver. According to CarMax, the number of manual transmissions sold over the past three decades ...

I know, I know: automatic transmissions make a car automatically lame. I think I can speak for the group when I say driving is typically more fun when you do the shifting. However, every rule has ...

Only 4 percent of American drivers say that the vehicle they most often drive has a manual transmission, according to a May 2023 nationally representative CR survey (PDF) of 2,000 American adults. But ...

For at least several years, rumors have gone around that claimed drivers with cars that have automatic headlights or daytime running lights (DRLs) would receive a special insurance discount. We looked ...

Back in 2016, a consortium of automakers representing more than 99 percent of the U.S. auto market agreed to make automatic emergency braking a standard feature on virtually all new cars by Sept. 1, ...