The 2015 Lamborghini Huracan was introduced this week and demonstrates that yes, dashboards can indeed be colorful fully-digital screens. The Huracan’s instrument panel displays virtual 3D gauges on a 12.3-inch TFT display with a resolution of 1440×540 pixels and driven by a Tegra 30 chip from Nvidia’s Tegra 3 Series. The processor can spin the…
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Say it isn’t so! Sinkhole in National Corvette Museum swallows 8 rare Corvettes
Museum officials say they received a call today from the security company at 5:45 AM alerting them to motion detector alarms going off in the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky. When they arrived, they were horrified to find a 40 foot wide sinkhole in the middle of the museum’s exhibition floor and eight…
Department of Transportation moves to allow cars to communicate with each other on the road
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced today that it will begin taking steps to enable vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication technology for automobiles. This technology would improve safety by allowing vehicles to “talk” to each other and ultimately avoid many crashes altogether by exchanging basic safety data, such as speed…
WTF? Huge car-vending machine in China – customer inserts coins and out pops a car
Can’t say we blame them. With some of the worst pollution and only 10% of the population owning cars, a vending machine that dispenses cheap electric rental cars seems like a no-brainer to us. Wait a minute – a *vending machine* that dispense cars?!?! In Hangzhou, China, citizens walk up to the multi-story Kandi Car…
Russian explorers prove it’s possible to drive from Russia to Canada across North Pole
Sidewall skiing – Saudi Arabian youth drive on two wheels in latest craze
Saudi Arabian youth, who apparently have very little to live for, have introduced some wild and crazy driving stunts to the world before. Last year YouTube video of Saudi youth “skiing” behind speeding cars went viral. This year they’ve upped the ante with “sidewall skiing”. Sidewall skiers use a ramp to tilt the car up…
Original Batmobile sold at auction for $4.6 million to a Batman fan
Mercedes-Benz off-road vehicle of the future generates fuel from recycled water [PICTURES]
Mercedes-Benz’s North American R&D team introduced the Ener-G-Force design concept vehicle at this year’s LA Auto Show Design Challenge. Based on the classic G-Class (notice the “G” shaped LED headlights), the off-road vehicle features 20-inch rims, emergency lighting, rear spare-wheel compartment converted to a quick-access tool box, and a “terra-scan” 360-topography scanner on the roof…
NASCAR driver fined $25,000 for tweeting from car during race
As if racing in NASCAR was not enough of an adrenaline rush, NASCAR racer Brad Keselowski can tweet while driving his race car. Brad Keselowski recently tweeted fans in the Daytona 500 prompting NASCAR to issue a new rule – no smartphones in the cars. Brad Keselowski tweeted during a race again last Sunday and…
Urbee: the World’s first 3D printed car
Urbee 3D printed carA working prototype of a hybrid-electric two-seater car called Urbee, is the world’s first 3D printed car. Urbee, (Urban Electric with Ethanol as backup) was created to be practical, efficient, inexpensive, easy to repair, safe to drive, and built from technology that exists today. Instead of being prototyped by hand, the company…