Cars

Volvo’s Fully Automatic Brakes

Volvo’s Collision Warning System with brake support was launched recently in its S80, where a red light flashes and a buzzer sounds if you’re about to run into something. It even goes a step further and applies more brake pressure if you’re not stopping fast enough. Now, the company is working on the next generation…

Gadgets Charlie White Jun 12

Honda: Fuel Cell Vehicle In Three to Four Years

While Honda was distracting everyone with its first-rate Civic Hybrid, behind its back it was putting together a hydrogen fuel cell car it says will be ready for consumers “in three to four years.” https://gizmodo.com/video-review-2006-honda-civic-hybrid-152453 The company says the car will run on simple hydrogen and its only apparent byproduct will be a few drops…

Gadgets Charlie White Jun 8

Next Prius: 100MPG, Turbocharged?

We’re not really gearheads or grease monkeys, but our Gawker brothers at Jalopnik convinced us to tell you about the next Toyota Prius, since we all know that it’s really just one big gadget. Anyway, they’re telling us the next Prius might be a firebreather, where its 1.8-liter engine could be turbocharged. Meanwhile, its hybrid…

Gadgets Charlie White Jun 6

Cellphone Car Starter

Not quite Michael Knight talking to a car with William Daniel’s voice, but Sarah Dodge, age 18, has a patent pending for starting up your car via your cellphone. It works by calling your car from the phone and entering in a 3 digit number to start up the car. Your ’82 beater even calls…

Gadgets Jason Chen Jun 5

Car Runs on Water, Inventor to Be Kidnapped by Exxon

I don’t know enough about chemistry to say this is bullshit, but I’m sure you geniuses out there can let us know WTF is up with this. He says his company, Hydrogen Technologies, uses standard water to create HHO (isn’t that just H2O?) and has created a car that can do 100 miles per four…

Gadgets John Biggs Jun 1

Dodge Magnum Case Mod

Every once in a while our Gawker brothers at Jalopnik join in on the geekfest, and this time they showed us a case mod from PC Rides that wraps up an Intel Core Duo inside your choice of a Dodge Magnum, Dodge Charger or Dodge Viper SRT10 case. We like the fact that the three…

Tech News Charlie White May 22

Arrest Me, Please: Spinner Exhaust Tip

At first we thought the Spinner Exhaust Tip would suck the exhaust out of the engine faster, resulting in more horsepower, but no. It’s just another one of those pimp-my-ride thingamajigs that attracts attention to the driver, nonverbally saying things like, “arrest me,” or, “I’m an asshole.” The Spinner Exhaust Tip is available in two…

Gadgets Charlie White May 22

Kenwood’s VDR-55 In-Car DVD Player

If you haven’t jumped on the incredibly safe DVD-player-in-the-car bandwagon just yet, Kenwood may have something in the woodworks to change your mind. Their VDR-55 plays standard DVDs and DVD-Rs, as well as CDs loaded with your quality collection of MP3 and WMA files. They’re even hawking a special cable to connect your iPod directly…

Gadgets Gizloco May 18

Gizmodo’s Dream Car: Lexus LS 460

If you’re looking for car stoked with technology, the Lexus LS 460 has more techno-goodness inside than any other vehicle offered for sale in North America, says the Telematics Research Group (TRG). https://jalopnik.com/lexus-uncovers-ls-460l-flagships-elfin-ass-147264 What’s the big deal? There’s a 30GB hard drive for both music and navigation, and enough cameras to produce a TV talk…

Gadgets Charlie White May 18

British Man Invents 8,000 Mile Per Gallon Car

While it’s not quite a Lexus, it is a start. A enterprising fellow from Britain invented a car that he believes can go 8,000 miles before it needs a fill up. It cost only $3,689 to build and weighs 126 pounds. The inventor, Andy Green, is no stranger to inventing fuel efficient cars and is…

Gadgets Gizloco May 12

Working Prototype: GM Hy-Wire Concept

General Motors has been toying with hydrogen fuel cells and the drive-by-wire concept for many years, but take a look at the video below and you’ll notice that the company actually has a working prototype. GM calls this Hy-Wire vehicle the first drivable concept car to use hydrogen fuel cell and by-wire technology. Maybe now…

Gadgets Charlie White May 10

PupHut: Dog Truck Shade

While the PupHut sounds more like some sort of strange pizza place, this is actually a tent for dogs who have to spend their afternoons lounging around in the beds of 4x4s. The hut protects Old Yeller from the sun and wind—but not the hydrophobie—and even comes in Mossy Oak for hunters and farm boys.…

Gadgets Johnb May 10

LED License Plate Holders

Hmmm, what uses will people find for a license plate holder that displays scrollable messages? You can enter up to 120 characters into one message, and the plate holder stores up to 5 messages. Programming the plate is easy to do even while you are in the car by using the wireless remote. There’s no…

Gadgets Jason Chen May 4

Thieves Using Laptops To Steal High Tech Cars

The ballsy blokes suspected to have stolen two of Becks‘ BMW X5s did so by using software on a laptop to hack into the car’s computer. Once in, they opened the doors, started the ignition, and drove away with the feeling you only get when you steal from a guy who can afford it—not that…

Tech News Jason Chen May 4

Smart Coming to the States?

John here, writing from beautiful Poland, which is in Europe. I’m only posting this because I’m so in love with the discontinued Smart forFour, which is the successor to the forTwo—the Smart two seater. Apparently the forTwo will soon be available in the US and I’m really looking forward to test driving one, weaving in…

Gadgets Johnb Apr 26

Hybrid Vehicles Pass Muster in NY, LA

Well, they thought it would never happen, but it has: hybrid vehicles survived intact on the mean streets of New York and San Francisco. Designed as a pilot program, these hybrid vehicles were introduced as taxis in two of the roughest driving towns in the U.S. (offer void in Mumbai and Rome). Apparently the hybrids,…

Gadgets Johnb Apr 25

UK Drivers Trust Navigation, Drive Into River

When you see a road submerged in four feet of water, what should you do? The answer is definitely NOT to try to go through it, as one or two UK motorists learn each day. Listen, just because your satellite navigation is right most of the time, doesn’t mean you need to listen to it…

Gadgets Jason Chen Apr 22

Caparo T1: Zero to 60 in 2.5 Seconds

We don’t normally ogle cars much around here, but our brothers-in-arms at Jalopnik tempted us enough to put us over the edge with the T1 from Caparo Vehicle Technologies. This 1,100-pound street-legal road rocket was designed by ex-McLaren engineers, and can reportedly go from zero to 60 in 2.5 seconds with a maximum speed of…

Gadgets Charlie White Apr 17

Replica Guide to KITT and KARR

If, as a young impressionable child, you always wanted to grow up to be just like Michael Knight, only to find years later that fate had dealt you a cruel hand and you were unable to croon in German or grow luxurious chest hair, perhaps you will find some solace in the fact that while…

Gadgets Gizmodo.com Apr 3

Sound Cameras Give Tickets to Loud Car Stereos

Those loud subwoofers may soon get you a ticket via an automated system that is a marriage of red-light cameras and noise sensors. A New South Wales company has turned technology developed for the Australian Navy into a ticketing system that can target drivers with thumping stereos, loud exhausts or who may be too heavy…

Tech News Rhbaby Mar 19

Volvo’s Fully Automatic Brakes

Honda: Fuel Cell Vehicle In Three to Four Years

Next Prius: 100MPG, Turbocharged?

Cellphone Car Starter

Car Runs on Water, Inventor to Be Kidnapped by Exxon

Dodge Magnum Case Mod

Arrest Me, Please: Spinner Exhaust Tip

Kenwood’s VDR-55 In-Car DVD Player

Gizmodo’s Dream Car: Lexus LS 460

British Man Invents 8,000 Mile Per Gallon Car

Working Prototype: GM Hy-Wire Concept

PupHut: Dog Truck Shade

LED License Plate Holders

Thieves Using Laptops To Steal High Tech Cars

Smart Coming to the States?

Hybrid Vehicles Pass Muster in NY, LA

UK Drivers Trust Navigation, Drive Into River

Caparo T1: Zero to 60 in 2.5 Seconds

Replica Guide to KITT and KARR

Sound Cameras Give Tickets to Loud Car Stereos

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