Cars

These Car Dudes Turn Scooby-Doo‘s Mystery Machine Into a Monster

I don’t know much about cars. But I do know Scooby-Doo. And I know the Mystery Machine is the rockin’-est, mystery-solvin’-est van around. So when these mechanics decide to have some fun with a van painted to look like the Mystery Machine, I can see the appeal. In this video from Cleetus McFarland, the creator…

io9 Julie Muncy Jan 19

This Tiny Circuit Board Is the Last Ingredient You Need to Turn Your Car Into a Racing Game Controller

If you prefer racing games like Gran Turismo and Forza over Super Mario Kart and Crash Team Racing then you’re probably after as authentic a (simulated) driving experience as possible. And what’s a more authentic experience than the car you drive to work every day? With this $10 breakout board—and a couple of slightly pricier…

Games Andrew Liszewski Jan 16

Elon Musk Dances Like Nobody’s Watching at Tesla Event in China

Billionaire tech founder Elon Musk made quite a splash in China today, where he took the stage to show off the Tesla Model 3 that’s made at the company’s new multibillion-dollar plant near Shanghai—the first outside of the U.S. The Tesla CEO was so happy, he started to dance. Or, at least we think that’s…

Tech News Matt Novak Jan 7

Bosch’s LCD Car Visor Only Blocks Your View of the Road Where the Sun Is In Your Eyes

Fully autonomous vehicles are already being tested on roads across the country, but there’s one feature in every car that feels like it hasn’t been upgraded in a century: the sun visor. So a group of engineers from Bosch set out to update this antiquated feature so that it blocks the sun without also blocking…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Jan 5

Toyota CEO Predicted Peak Oil by 2020 Back in 2009

Toyota’s North American CEO, Jim Lentz, predicted back in 2009 that by 2020 the world would hit peak oil—the idea that the world’s demand for oil would exceed the world’s supply of oil. And since we’ve officially entered the year 2020, it feels like an appropriate time to look at whether his prediction was correct.…

Tech News Matt Novak Jan 2

This Cybertruck Knock-Off Can Be Yours For Just $10,800

You can’t buy Tesla’s electric Cybertruck yet, but you can get a vehicle that looks pretty close. All you need is 666,666 rubles ($10,800) and a laidback attitude. Why a laidback attitude? The fake Tesla-branded hubcaps are probably going to fall off, judging by a new video of the thing tearing through a parking lot…

Transportation Matt Novak Dec 26

Man Dies in Queens After Being Pinned Between 2 Parked Cars, One of Which Was Started Remotely

A pedestrian in New York’s Queens borough was reportedly crushed to death between two parked cars after a 2002 Lexus’s remote engine ignition system was activated, causing the vehicle to lurch forward, Streetsblog reported on Wednesday. According to Streetsblog and the New York Daily News, the accident occurred at around 10:00 p.m. on Dec. 6…

Transportation Tom McKay Dec 11

Good Boy, Bad Driver

A Labrador retriever had a dizzying adventure in a Florida cul-de-sac on Thursday after getting stuck in a car that that spun in circles like a dog chasing it’s own tail. Port St. Lucie police told a NBC local affiliate that the pooch’s owner stepped out of the car but left the engine running. Then…

Biology Jennings Brown Nov 22

The Cybertruck Is Good, Fight Me (Update: Sorry, Sorry, I’m Trying to Delete)

On Thursday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled the company’s latest electric vehicle, the aptly named Cybertruck, in the process snapping every neuron in my brain that has braved the long march of the past few years. The Cybertruck supposedly has great specs like a 3,500-pound payload, up to 14,000-pound towing, an adaptive air suspension, and…

Gadgets Tom McKay Nov 22

Will Elon Musk’s Cybertruck Arrive Before the Flying Car?

Building the future is hard. And nowhere was that more evident than at Tesla’s grand unveiling of the Cybertruck in Los Angeles last night. But if anyone can do it, Elon Musk can, right? Right? Unconventional design choices aside, the Tesla presentation had some really embarrassing gaffes, like when Tesla’s lead designer, Franz von Holzhausen,…

Tech News Matt Novak Nov 22

Uber’s New Delivery Drone Absolutely Reeks of Vaporware [Updated]

Uber has announced it’s developing a new drone it hopes to use for Uber Eats deliveries one day. Eric Allison, the head of Uber Elevate, talked about the new drone in Detroit yesterday at the Forbes Under 30 Summit. And while the mock-up design looks pretty cool, with rotating wings and six rotors, the details…

Tech News Matt Novak Oct 29

MIT Researchers Taught Autonomous Cars to See Around Corners

Researchers at MIT are helping autonomous cars deliver on the promise of safer roads with a new trick that lets driverless vehicles see around corners to pre-emptively spot other vehicles or moving hazards that human drivers would never see coming. https://gizmodo.com/the-air-forces-new-robot-can-fly-any-plane-and-turn-it-1837475043 There have been several attempts to make cameras that are able to see around…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Oct 28

My Brain Needs This Hack That Syncs Your Car’s Windshield Wipers to the Beat of Your Music

When driving in the pouring rain, I usually stick to talk radio—or turn the car’s stereo off completely because my brain gets really unhappy when the rhythmic motion of the windshield wipers doesn’t match the beat of a song. I guess I’m not alone, though, because Ian Charnas, who I’m declaring the greatest inventor of…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Oct 16

Flash Memory on Some Tesla Cars Is Reportedly Burning Out, Causing Major Issues

Displays on older models of Tesla electric vehicles are bricking because of shoddy flash memory, according to reports in Inside EVs and Motherboard. The specific problem is with an onboard NAND-based flash storage chip, the eMMC, which is embedded in some models of Tesla’s Media Control Unit (primarily MCUv1, though MCUv2 may be affected to…

Transportation Tom McKay Oct 16

Federal Safety Regulators Say They’re Looking Into Reports of Tesla Smart Summon Crashes

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) isn’t so thrilled with Tesla’s rollout of a feature that automatically summons the company’s vehicles in parking lots, telling Reuters they are investigating resulting crashes. The smart summon feature, launched last week as part of Tesla’s optional $6,000 “Full Self Driving” package, allow a user to use an…

Tech News Tom McKay Oct 2

Donald Trump Swoops in to Save Us All From the Tyranny of Cleaner Cars That Use Less Gas

Donald Trump, fresh off moving to eviscerate lightbulb efficiency standards he thinks will make him look too orange and declaring war on the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest, is reportedly set to revoke California’s ability to regulate vehicle emissions. Tailpipe emissions are the single largest source of CO2 emissions in the U.S, contributing to global climate…

Climate Change Tom McKay Sep 18

Body of Man Who Went Missing in 1997 Discovered in Pond on Google Maps

The body of William Moldt, a 40-year-old Florida man who was reported missing in November of 1997, has been found. And it’s all thanks to Google Maps, strangely enough. Barry Fay, a 50-year-old resident of Wellington, Florida, called the police after a neighbor told him there was a car in the pond behind his house…

Tech News Matt Novak Sep 13

This 1930s Invention Was Supposed to Make Parallel Parking Easy

These days, some cars can help you parallel park with the touch of a button, but it wasn’t alway so easy. Back in the 1930s you had to parallel park the old fashioned way, and this short clip from a newsreel shows how one inventor in California came up with a plan to let drivers…

Tech News Matt Novak Aug 27

News of an Employee’s Death at a Tesla Facility Renews Spotlight on History of Safety Concerns

Tesla confirmed Tuesday that the body of one of its employees was found at the company’s Gigfactory last week and police are currently investigating the incident, Business Insider reported. The body of Michael Johnston, 61, was found on the Nevada factory’s third floor on July 22, the Storey County Police Department told the site. (A…

Tech News Alyse Stanley Jul 30

Tesla Posts Record Deliveries in Q2 2019, But Still Lost $408 Million

Electric car giant Tesla had its stock plunge over 10 percent in after-hours trading after posting a $408 million loss in Q2 2019—despite shipping record numbers of cars, CNBC reported on Wednesday. The company produced about 87,000 cars in the quarter and shipped some 95,200 of them throughout the quarter, per the Verge, and generated…

Tech News Tom McKay Jul 24

These Car Dudes Turn Scooby-Doo‘s Mystery Machine Into a Monster

This Tiny Circuit Board Is the Last Ingredient You Need to Turn Your Car Into a Racing Game Controller

Elon Musk Dances Like Nobody’s Watching at Tesla Event in China

Bosch’s LCD Car Visor Only Blocks Your View of the Road Where the Sun Is In Your Eyes

Toyota CEO Predicted Peak Oil by 2020 Back in 2009

This Cybertruck Knock-Off Can Be Yours For Just $10,800

Man Dies in Queens After Being Pinned Between 2 Parked Cars, One of Which Was Started Remotely

Good Boy, Bad Driver

The Cybertruck Is Good, Fight Me (Update: Sorry, Sorry, I’m Trying to Delete)

Will Elon Musk’s Cybertruck Arrive Before the Flying Car?

Uber’s New Delivery Drone Absolutely Reeks of Vaporware [Updated]

MIT Researchers Taught Autonomous Cars to See Around Corners

My Brain Needs This Hack That Syncs Your Car’s Windshield Wipers to the Beat of Your Music

Flash Memory on Some Tesla Cars Is Reportedly Burning Out, Causing Major Issues

Federal Safety Regulators Say They’re Looking Into Reports of Tesla Smart Summon Crashes

Donald Trump Swoops in to Save Us All From the Tyranny of Cleaner Cars That Use Less Gas

Body of Man Who Went Missing in 1997 Discovered in Pond on Google Maps

This 1930s Invention Was Supposed to Make Parallel Parking Easy

News of an Employee’s Death at a Tesla Facility Renews Spotlight on History of Safety Concerns

Tesla Posts Record Deliveries in Q2 2019, But Still Lost $408 Million

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