“Most automakers are competing to introduce their own driverless cars to the public, and are doing so piecemeal, system by system. The components of the upcoming driverless car are being introduced into current models as ever more elaborate mechanisms to aid the driver, such as self-parking features and automated collision avoidance systems,” says Issi Romen […]
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LA Times: The hottest properties in [Hong Kong] have no walls, windows or even front doors. Forget condos, apartments and homes. Real estate investors are scrambling for parking spaces. Single slots are now selling for more than some modest Southern California homes. Witness the $288,000 paid in November for a parking place in a luxury
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How’s this for a crazy business idea: Form a corporation, and then rent it to commuters who want to drive alone in the carpool lanes. After all, if corporations are people, then shouldn’t then count as riders in the car? A carpool lane is two or more persons per vehicle. The definition of person in
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Fast Company: Decano Industries’ smart speed bump is so intuitive, it’s difficult to figure out why no one invented it before. The bump, which is made up of two steel plates, uses a patented device to measure the force of a car’s impact. If the car is safely cruising at or below the speed limit,
The Huffington Post: Despite how silly it sounds, water-fueled vehicles do exist. The most famous is Stan Meyer’s dune buggy, which achieved 100 miles per gallon and might have become more commonplace had Meyer not succumbed to a suspicious brain aneurysm at 57. Insiders have loudly claimed that Meyer was poisoned after he refused to
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What if you could text your car to stop, and have it stop moving when it is stolen? That is just one part of an anti-theft idea from self-taught inventor, Morris Mbetsa, and 18 year old who lives in Kenya. Mbetsa’s invention uses voice, DTMC and SMS text messages over a wireless service to carry
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Motoramic: If you want to buy a new car or truck in the United States, you have the choice of going to a dealership in person or not buying at all. For the first time, one automaker — electric vehicle maker Tesla — will attempt to short-circuit dealers by selling its cars directly to consumers
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According to Japanese researchers at the Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology in Tokyo, it is possible to identify drivers by the way their weight is distributed on the car seat. The team has developed a car seat that can identify drivers when they sit down. It seems that everyone’s bum is as unique as a
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The high performance tyre of the future will be very different to the tires we drive on today, if the results of a recent design competition are a guide. Hankook Tire recently sponsored a competition of some of the best industrial design students in the US to reimagine the tires of the future.
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