Flipboard 2025 Car Tips

Modern cars have become surprisingly chatty. Between dashboard lights, infotainment messages, emails, and manufacturer apps, your vehicle can now tell you about maintenance in several different places. So when your phone warns you first, it is reasonable to wonder which screen deserves your attention. In many cases, the app is receiving legitimate information from the vehicle itself—but that does not make the dashboard obsolete. Here is how to handle the situation without ignoring something important or booking an unnecessary repair.

Lane-keeping assist can struggle when snow hides road markings. Here’s when switching it off on winter roads may make sense—and what safety features should stay on.

Can your parked car legally record neighbors and passersby? Here’s what drivers should know about privacy, audio laws, complaints, and camera settings.

Your truck's automatic tailgate opened inside your garage and caused damage. Learn when automakers are responsible and what to do before paying for repairs.

Your condo board installed EV chargers, but only a few residents can use them. Learn when condo boards can make these upgrades, why they do it, and what rights owners have.

The neighbor leaves for work every morning. His EV charger stays behind. So if someone nearby needs a little extra range and the charger is just sitting there...what’s the harm in plugging in for a while? The answer depends on more than whether the homeowner notices.

The engine runs fine, but the maintenance warnings sound intense. Turbocharged cars aren’t necessarily fragile, but they can be less forgiving when a few key services get ignored.

Driver-monitoring systems can improve safety by detecting long glances away from the road, closed eyes, and other signs of disengagement, but they are not infallible. There is no trustworthy industry-wide false-warning rate, and real-world accuracy can vary with the vehicle, software, lighting, sunglasses, seating position, and even the shape or visibility of a driver’s eyes.

If your vehicle includes a factory button for disabling it, using that button normally does not alter the car or remove the system. The resale question becomes more complicated only when owners permanently modify, bypass, or damage the equipment.

Connected-car apps can track every trip your teenager makes, but does added safety come at the cost of privacy? We explore how vehicle tracking can fuel family arguments, affect trust, and where parents should draw the line.

The truck’s advertised towing number looked enormous, so the trailer seemed like an easy match. Then passengers, hitch weight, and bed cargo started eating into the payload rating before the trailer was even connected.