A column on learning to drive in the days before automatic transmissions prompts readers to share their experiences.

Growing up loving cop cars like those from TJ Hooker, for the past couple years I’ve fantasized buying a law enforcement Dodge Charger—in particular, a supervisor’s Dodge Charger, complete with push ...

I didn’t learn to drive until I was 27. I grew up in cities, so there wasn’t a great need, and more importantly I was stone cold terrified: when I tried to drive my then-boyfriend’s car at age 18, I ...

NOTE: This article is updated regularly. Even if you fancy yourself the next Lewis Hamilton, the best way to become a better high-performance driver is to take lessons from folks who know more than ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Georgia native Luke Pye was 18 years old, driving with his high school girlfriend on the highway when a van cut ...

If you're between the ages of 15 and 25, and you don't know how to drive a manual transmission-equipped car -- heck, if you fall in the age range and do know how to drive a manual ...

Driving stick is a vanishing art. Everyone, seemingly, learns to drive on an automatic transmission and then never picks up the skills need to operate a manual. Which is a shame, as there's no better ...

MIT Technology Review reports that a team of researchers at Intel Labs and Darmstadt University in Germany is using GTA V as the basis for a machine learning program that could lead to safer, better ...

The rats were trained in "rodent operated vehicles." Rats at the University of Richmond were operating a different kind of wheel for this experiment. Researchers at the college trained six female rats ...