SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – To avoid a potential $300 million in civil penalties, Ford has agreed to settle a class action claiming it knowingly sold vehicles with defective and unsafe touch screen systems.

Wayne Cunningham reviews cars and writes about automotive technology for CNET's Roadshow. Prior to the automotive beat, he covered spyware, Web building technologies, and computer hardware. He began ...

Clunky, badly designed and poorly performing infotainment systems have caused some of the biggest hits to automakers' quality and reliability rankings over the past few years. Perhaps chief among them ...

In the pitched battle for dashboard dominance, Ford Motor Co. plans to increase the size of the touch screen in its best-selling F-150 pickup by at least 50% when it rolls out a redesigned model next ...

In the pitched battle for dashboard dominance, Ford Motor Co. plans to increase the size of the touch screen in its best-selling F-150 pickup by at least 50% when it rolls out a redesigned model next ...

Ford is making waves at the Consumer Electronics Show with MyFord Touch, a re-envisioned dashboard for multimedia, navigation and connections to the Internet. But while it’s nice to ogle the ...

Ford Sync is getting a new look. Again. This time Ford is adding more knobs and buttons to Ford Sync. At the same time, Ford says voice control will do more with fewer, shorter commands. More ...

As cars, trucks, and SUVs become more like computers on wheels, it comes as no surprise to see video game capability on the upcoming Ford F-150 Lightning's touch-screen infotainment system. Ford's CEO ...