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more about #cars more comments → not_a_virus.exe.vbs: I wish the companies would keep redundant controls on the dashboard. Yeah., it is nice to control everything with one knob but if they left the redund... more » sharkync: I thinks it's now illegal in all 50 states to touch while you drive. more » Voyou_Charmant: Voice recognition would seem like an easier, safer option than drawing letters on a touch pad. Sure, you have to stop talking to the people in the car... more » Noobs-R-Us: Why don't they just use a touchscreen? this is just bloody stupid. Have they not gotten the memo from Steve Jobs? more » Wheema: sound bloody dangerous - I really don't think this will be usable whilst driving more » Noobs-R-Us: The real question is where was Tiger's wife? When the cops came he was lying on the ground in and out of consciousness. No mention of where the wife w... more » Gann: A couple of months ago, a drunk driver threw a bottle at my truck and cracked my windshield. I gave the police the license plate #, but nothing happe... more » MrEvil: I wouldn't say a radar detector is a good gift either. Ask any cop who does speed enforcement and he'll tell you he catches more people with radar de... more » dragon:ONE: Isn't #7 just a Nalgene bottle in itself that some individual/group just went to one of those promotional items companies and had them slap "my pee pe... more » Segador: No description needed, really. more » twoeightnine: Does anyone have problems with the Motion X apps finding a signal? I downloaded the free version to see if I wanted to replace RunKeeper with it, I do... more » Lizard_King: Standalone GPSes have an edge over phones in that you have much more control if you want to map out specific routes on the computer. Using Garmin's Ma... more » GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid: I actually HAVE #1. I've since upgraded to the newer model, but I used the old one in my car to make it a rolling singles ad for myself. And no, it ... more » kickace: escort 8500 x50 is the still raining champ for radar detectors, even years old....have used both. both are fantastic though - never buy a radar detect... more » Gary_7vn: Number 7 (or is it "number 1"?) could cause some problems if stored in proximity to the bottles of apple juice. more » -
#cars
Audi New MMI Touch Input System Makes Perfect Sense
At last, someone in the auto industry gets it right. Instead of using awkward wheels or joysticks, like the Mercedes's MyCommand or the BMW iDrive, the new Audi MMI touch system just uses a touchpad for some direct finger-drawing action. More » -
#cars
Car Cam Dually Records The Wreck Outside and Your Screaming Face Inside
if you were Tiger Woods, the Car Cam Dually would have captured you slamming into a tree and your wife smashing the windows with a golf club, while simultaneously recording how you managed to injure your face. More » -
#giftguide
Car Gifts Too Dangerous To Actually Use While Driving
Theoretically, we shouldn't drive while playing with gadgets. But at stop lights and while we're waiting for roadtrip passengers to finish buying cornchips at the gas station quickmart, well, OK. More » -
#imagecache
No, This Is Not Another Slow Shutter Photography Trick
As much as the Artikcar looks like it was drawn with light during a 20-second photo exposure, it's actually a real thing: a rolling, glowing, neon-enveloped quad bike. More » -
#cars
This Car Will Run at 1,000mph
Bloodhound is a car being designed to run at a swooshing one thousand miles-per-hour. That's 1,609 km/h, which is way faster than the speed of sound. As the video shows, it'll have more thrust than the Eurofighter combat jet: More » -
#automotive
Electric Rolls Royce Phantom Coming in 2010, Priced Just Around Half A Million Dollars
While we don't have the official price, we're reading that the electric Rolls Royce Phantom will run just a bit higher than the current $380,000 gas-powered model. Let's round that to about half a mil and daydream together. More » -
#badideas
Student Plans to Mod Old OutRun Cabinet Into a Car
This seems dangerous: a crazy student is taking an old OutRun cabinet and plans to turn it into an actual working car that renders on screen what's actually in front of you. More » -
#safety
Specialized DVR For Cars Could Make Teens Better Drivers
Technological progress is amazing. Case in point: When I was learning to drive, my safety monitor was a "mom." It barked orders at me as I navigated Massachusetts streets, oftentimes recklessly at high rates of speed. In the future? Computers! More » -
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#rc
The G-Bound RC Car Drives On Water
It's no miracle, the G-Bound remote control car can drive over water thanks to a waterproof chassis and inflatable tires. More » -
#cars
The World's Most Efficient Electric Car Is Destined to Fail
According to Gordon Murray—the ex-McLaren's Formula 1 designer responsible for the T.27 car—one day we all will be driving one of this vehicles. And wearing clown costumes. I don't care it's the most efficient car. It won't work. More » -
#gps
Garmin EcoRoutes ESP Displays Car Diagnostics On Your Nuvi GPS
Sometime next year, Garmin nuvi GPS devices will have the option of displaying information on your car's inner workings using EcoRoutes ESP—a module that taps into your car's onboard diagnostics (OBD-II) port. More » -
#cars
Inflatable Seatbelts...Really Ford?
Times are tough for the automotive industry. Consumers have less money, the environment has less tolerance and nothing short of new engineering paradigms can fix any of it. You know, stuff like inflatable rear seatbelts. More » -
#cars
Fully Autonomous Audi TTS to Race at Mad Pikes Peak Rally Circuit
Forget the Darpa's urban challenge. This fully automated Audi TTS—equipped with GPS, sensors, and guidance systems—is set to race on the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, a crazy 19.99-kilometer rally race circuit with 156 turns. More » -
#solar
The Fastest Solar Car on the Planet
In the most recent World Solar Challenge, a Japanese team upset the former 4-time Dutch champs to win the 1,864-mile solar car race across Australia with the vehicle you see here. More » -
#remainders
Remainders: Stuff We Didn't Post (And Why)
I have a splitting headache. There was so much real news today, mostly Android-y, we happily skipped this junk: GM's Wi-Fi, Apple Store POS, Virgin/Helio, Xbox Sky and a Blu-ray player only dumb people will buy. Dun dun DUN. More » -
#automotive
Self-Parking Car Works Perfectly, Except For That Whole Running People Over Thing
Volkswagen is onto something great with this concept demo. You just step out of this car and it parks itself. Great, now they just need to iron out those details about detecting obstacles like lil' ol' grannies crossing parking lots. More » -
#design
Driving This Toyota Will Feel Like Flying a Spaceship
I know the Toyota FT-EV is just an electric car prototype, but that doesn't make me want it any less. It makes my previously favorite car cockpit look like a Ford Pinto. Zoom in. More » -
#imagecache
You Are Not Tripping: This Car Is Real
I thought the Lexus LF-A Crystallised Wind looked awesome before, but this spectacular image from the ongoing Tokyo Motor Show takes "awesome" to a completely new level. The I shouldn't have popped those pills this morning level. Without the lights: More » -
#cellphones
California Cool Cars Block the Sun, Cellphones and GPS
The metal oxide coating California's "Cool Cars" regulation mandates for car windows starting in 2010 doesn't just reflect sunlight—it also bounces the signals for cellphones, GPS navigators and, um, parolees' ankle bracelets, making reception noticeably crappier.Updated. More »
