Techcrunch: YourMechanic, a peer-to-peer car repair marketplace that enables mechanics to fix users’ cars at their home or office, launched at TechCrunch Disrupt SF today. It claims it will lower costs 30-50% from shops and dealers, offering an “Uber-like experience” where the mechanic visits you to service your car. YourMechanic offers mechanic profiles, reviews from […]
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Hands-On Garage in Milwaukee, Wisconsin is a do-it-yourself auto repair garage. People can rent their indoor bays and repair their own cars using Hands-On Garage’s tools. The really interesting part of the business to me, is that Hands-On Garage sells a business opportunity to local mechanics called “Fleet Crew Mechanics”: Fleet Crew Members are independent
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The biggest problem with electric cars is that their range is limited because they can only store so much electricity in their batteries, without the battery size growing prohibitively large. But, what if the energy storage burden was shifted from our overworked cars to the road? Researchers at the Energy Dynamics Laboratory at Utah State
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Cruisin Caskets is a casket fabricating company that creates custom car designs for the car lover that wants to leave this world in style. They are currently taking orders for a 1950’s style “Mercury coffin”. The specially designed, car-shaped coffin opens as conventional coffins do, with a hinged top portion, and features the same type
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Driving while texting is a growing menace. As the incidents of texting-related fender benders and worse mount, 19 states have outlawed the practice. But road texting is a tough habit to break. Seeing a big opportunity, a bevy of start-ups is rolling out services that disable and divert text and e-mail while recipients are on
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The Wall Street Journal: For decades, Ashley Fletcher ditched his cars after they reached 50,000 miles. Now he plans to keep his 2004 Lexus RX 330 for two or three more years — or until it reaches 70,000 miles. If all goes well, he might shoot for 100,000 miles. Like many drivers, Fletcher scaled back
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Techcrunch: YourMechanic, a peer-to-peer car repair marketplace that enables mechanics to fix users’ cars at their home or office, launched at TechCrunch Disrupt SF today. It claims it will lower costs 30-50% from shops and dealers, offering an “Uber-like experience†where the mechanic visits you to service your car. YourMechanic offers mechanic profiles, reviews from
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Popular Science: In a huge city, lighting the streets is a necessary but pricey precaution. Pedestrians and motorists are no doubt safer when streetlamps, not just car headlights, illuminate roadways and sidewalks — but streetlamps are expensive and inefficient to run. A prototype system that turns the lights on and off depending on traffic could
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NY Times: The benefits of driverless cars are potentially significant. The typical American spends an average of roughly 100 hours a year in traffic; imagine using that time in better ways — by working or just having fun. The irksome burden of commuting might be lessened considerably. Furthermore, computer-driven cars could allow for tighter packing
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The Model T Ford single-handedly brought us from a horse and buggy era to one where we had machine running on gasoline engines. Using a moving assembly line Henry Ford was able to manufacture one in about a tenth of the time it took to build other vehicles by hand.
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