Motorcycle Gear Review: Alpinestars T-Jaws Air Jacket and Oxygen Air Overpants

For motorcycle riders, it's rarely the perfect temperature. Winter means plugging in to an electric-warming vest. Summer means risking road rash with less gear because it gets too hot.

Toyota recalls up to 17,000 Lexus HS 250h models for fuel-leak risk

Toyota Motor Corp. plans to recall 17,000 Lexus HS 250h vehicles from model year 2010 after discovering excess fuel leakage during government rear-impact crash tests. It is the latest safety setback for the world's largest automaker.

Nissan Leaf with advanced-driver assist to begin public road tests in Japan

Nissan is about to begin testing advanced driver-assist systems in the real world, and a new Nissan Leaf is serving as the test bed for these technologies. This is all a part of Nissan's development of Autonomous Drive, a goal to achieve virtually zero fatalities in accidents involving its vehicles by the year 2020. Autonomous Drive can be said to be a further development of Nissan's Safety Shield, a system that has a 360-degree view around the vehicle that scans for risks and provides warnings to the driver, intervening automatically if necessary.