Archive for the 'Automotive Gadgets' Category

Evatran Plugless Power Station for Wireless Electric Car Charging

Considering that there will probably be an increase of electric vehicles on the road in the next few years, it’s nice to see that the Evatran Plugless Power Station is already thinking of ways to improve the charging process for these electric cars.
It works with the user installing a shoebox-sized adapter in the [...]

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Driverless vehicles to go from Italy to China

Imagine a long drive that starts from Parma, Italy and ends in China. Now imagine this drive happening without drivers.
This is exactly the project that is planned to take place. This proposed trip wouldn’t be about sending a Knight Rider type car to make the trip all by its lonesome, but [...]

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Vibrating Seats Alert You Of Nearby Cars

A researcher from Yale University has created car seats that will keep the driver alert and aware of their surroundings.  Instead of giving visual alerts it gives ones by touch.  It’s an interesting concept that may make you feel like you’re playing a video game, but if it helps then it’s worth a try.  Anything [...]

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Head mounted camera so you can see how your mechanic is doing

We have all had our car in the shop, and received a bill that we knew was not equivalent to service rendered. Usually it is a very high price.
It makes one wish that one could look into that room and see exactly what is being done by the mechanic. This is [...]

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Washington State to have an “electric highway”

This is a stretch of Interstate Highway 5 (I-5), which is not far from where I live. I’ve just learned that a part of I-5 spanning from Oregon to Canada is planned on receiving a huge makeover.
In fact, the government has granted $1.32 million dollars to turn this part of I-5 into [...]

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RoboCar from ZMP one more step for AI: Automotive Intelligence

When I saw this photo, I couldn’t help but think that it was cute. After all, it is a car with a cute little robot head on it. I started to have Speed Buggy flashbacks.
As it turns out, this car is part of a serious car robotics platform study by a [...]

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California to get digital license plates?

I’ve learned that there is a group in San Francisco that wants to make license plates digital. This doesn’t surprise me. I suppose that print is a slowly dying medium, and I think we all knew that all road signs are going to be replaced with video displays.
License plates are things [...]

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Scarab: A self-driving, electric police pursuit vehicle

Once again, it would appear that science fiction has somehow turned into fact with the Scarab car.
Basically, the Scarab is a car that is self-driven, like K.I.T.T. from Knight Rider. This self-driving car works a little different than the one from the TV show.
In other words, there is no David Hasselhoff [...]

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Electric Car to make 16,000 mile trip

Anyone remember when we reported on the electric car that goes 1,000 km on a single charge? Well, there is an electric car from the Racing Green Endurance Team that plans to take their SRZero Electric car 26,000km (16,000 miles).
The SRZero electric car is sponsored by Imperial College London, and the trip [...]

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Swing Beginner Concept Car

This is the Swing Beginner concept car. As you can see, even the artistic model is impressed.
The Swing Beginner car concept is like nothing that I’ve seen in a car as it relies not on a wheel to steer, but the driver’s leaning.
Yes, the driver must lean to go in [...]

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