Cars

This Cadillac Is Powered by Linux

The brand once known as the “Standard of the World” has fully embraced the Standard of Geeks for it’s latest play for the hearts, minds and cash of the upwardly mobile. This is the all-new 2013 Cadillac XTS, and while it certainly isn’t your great-great (great) grandfather’s Cadillac, it’s designed to appeal to everyone from…

Tech News Damon Lavrinc - WIRED May 25

Was This Google Maps Car Driver Using Google Glasses When He Crashed?

Oh look, a crashed Google Maps car. Was the driver using Google Glasses like Sergei Brin? [Thanks Jelly!] https://gizmodo.com/how-the-google-glasses-actually-look-in-real-life-hint-5899697

Tech News Jesus Diaz May 23

This Couch Is the Only Place It’s Ever Ok To Fall Asleep At the Wheel

At some point in your life you’re going to have to give up the dream of sleeping in an awesome car bed. We still totally support you, but the rest of society won’t be as accepting. So as an alternative, you might want to consider a car-shaped couch instead. Created by design and fashion studio…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski May 19

And now, two 50-foot-long cars shaped like mythological serpents

We’ve seen some pretty outlandish conveyances in our day — such as the octopus tank and this spider ride — but these two 50-foot-long, fire-breathing serpents by Jon Sarriugarte and Kyrsten Mate are something else. http://io9.com/5837314/youll-wish-you-could-ride-in-this-steampunk-octopus-tank https://gizmodo.com/a-giant-robotic-snake-chases-a-man-piloting-a-spider-me-5859804 Based on the respective Scandinavian and Australian Aboriginal legends of the Jormungand and Julunggul serpents, these rides also…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar May 18

The Best Designed Vintage SUV Is Hand Built with Taste

The ICON Bronco is a praise the lord beautiful vintage SUV that prides itself on its attention to design. ICON scours around for old Broncos and then strips it down, reverse engineers it and makes it better than it ever was. Look how gorgeous these SUVs are. David Laven made a video for Cool Hunting…

Tech News Casey Chan May 9

Nevada Finally Lets Google’s Driverless Cars Loose

Earlier this year, Nevada became the first state to approve the use of self-driving cars on its highways. Now, it’s granted its first license for the vehicles and it goes to—what a surprise—Google. https://gizmodo.com/nevada-is-the-first-state-to-approve-self-driving-cars-5885940 Google’s new Nevada-based cars will be fitted with a red license plate, which includes an infinity symbol for easy recognition. Even…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe May 8

MIT Student Builds Awesome Working Mario Kart, Documents Process Every Step of the Way

A self-described electromechanical hobbyist and MIT student named Charles Guan is the mastermind behind the Chibikart, a motorized Mario Kart-like vehicle built from scratch. On his blog, Charles states that Chibikart took him a total of three weeks to build, “from [announcement] to first ride test,” which seems like just absolutely no time at all.…

Tech News Molly Oswaks May 8

What Do These Crazy Hacked Cars Have To Do With Michel Gondry’s Next Film?

When you’re walking through the set of a Michel Gondry film you can’t expect that everything is going to seem normal, or even make sense. Case in point, he’s currently shooting an adaptation of Boris Vian’s The Froth on the Daydream on location in France, where Yan-Alexandre snapped these photos of a series of utterly…

Movies Andrew Liszewski Apr 30

We Waste a Billion Gallons of Gas a Year Because We’re So Fat

Heavier cars use more fuel. Now some bright spark has calculated that the US uses one billion gallons more gas every year than if the entire population had remained at the average weight of the 1960s. For every extra pound added to the average weight, the country uses another 39 million gallons of fuel each…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Apr 30

For $4500, You Can Drive Around in a Giant Milk Carton and Cereal Bowl

An Oakland-based Burning Man vet is selling this absurd “Mutant Vehicle/Art Car,” on Craigslist—fashioned in the likeness of a milk carton and cereal bowl—and has chopped down the price in hopes that some ambitious soul will buy and haul it over to Burning Man this year. The 1992 Ford Explorer was first created for the…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Apr 26

Behind the Scenes of a Colossal Car Crash Test

You’ve seen slow-mo footage of crash tests before. For some weird reason, auto makers love to show its cars being demolished. This awesome short shows all of the preparation that goes into recreating the chaos and carnage at moment of impact. Filmed and edited by Jay Gillespie, “Point B” shows you everything about a crash…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Apr 24

The Mechanical Turn Signals On This Concept Car Look Like Fluttering Eyelashes

Until Pixar came along and ruined things, headlights were often seen as a vehicle’s eyes. But Mercedes-Benz refuses to give up on that anthropomorphic fantasy. Even to the point of designing a mechanical turn signal system in its new Concept Style Coupe that looks like fluttering, flirting eyelashes. https://jalopnik.com/how-pixar-screwed-up-cartoon-cars-for-a-generation-of-k-5870976 Instead of simply animating a row…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Apr 21

The Day Your Car Kidnaps You

Phillip K. Dick’s The Game Players of Titan takes place in a near future where cars drive their passengers, recording the day’s stops and visits. At the end of they day, the cars transmit everything they know about their drivers’ habits over to the police. Google’s fleet of self-driving Toyota Priuses have succeed in driving…

io9 Keith Veronese Apr 18

The Household Car Module Puts Your Kitchen on Wheels

While you might not have room in your driveway for a full-on mobile home, you can pack a lot of the features into your regular-sized car. If you’re a serious camper or road warrior, the SwissRoomBox, a household unit that folds into the trunk of your vehicle, will serve all your needs. It fits whips…

Tech News Leslie Horn Apr 16

Vacuum Powered Dragsters Should Make Short Work Of Housecleaning

Hearing stories about awesome places to work is always inspiring, and it’s no surprise that working at Dyson sounds like a pretty sweet gig. To encourage creativity, and boost morale, the company had its engineers build model drag racers using nothing but vacuum parts. Given the limitation of only being able to harvest parts from…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Apr 12

A Blind Man Is Driving This Car

This is Steve. 95% of his vision is gone. He’s blind. And he’s behind the wheel of this car, travelling perfectly across his neighborhood. It’s an amazing feat. A technological miracle. Google’s self-driving car has now completed 200,000 miles of computer-led driving. Steve was part of that testing and he loved it: https://gizmodo.com/test-driving-googles-driverless-car-5662005 Here’s Steve,…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Mar 28

Vibrating Car Seats Ensure Your Butt’s the First To Know About Dangers

A few days ago we reported on how a prototype vibrating steering wheel could provide GPS directions with minimal driver distraction. And now it turns out that Cadillac will implement a similar system using vibrating seats to grab a driver’s attention. https://gizmodo.com/vibrating-steering-wheels-could-provide-distraction-fre-5896098 The latest version of the Cadillac XTS will include General Motor’s new Safety…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Mar 27

What Exactly Is That New Car Smell?

The smell of a new car is intoxicating. It reminds us of money and shiny objects. It evokes that golden period before repeat coffee stains, moldy Tupperware, and our trunk’s transformation into a Good Will depository change the way we feel about our car. But it’s kind of a weird smell, right? It’s so different…

Tech News Rachel Swaby Mar 27

The Mystery Machine is for sale for $3,200 in California

Well, it appears we’ve finally discovered the final fate of those meddling kids. After spending decades thwarting wizened theme park owners wearing rubber suits for the express purpose of insurance fraud, the Scooby Gang retired to the Bay Area. And someone — presumably that spendthrift killjoy Fred — is now selling their venerable van for…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 22

I Would Gladly Sail into the Heart of Darkness Aboard a “Jungle Yacht”

Because what better way to explore British East Africa than from the comfort of a custom trailer? It’s how John Madden would have explored the Congo. The Jungle Yacht, as it was dubbed, belonged to Italian explorer Commander Attilio Gatti who, with his wife, explored much of the African Congo in the late 1930s. The…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Mar 22

This Cadillac Is Powered by Linux

Was This Google Maps Car Driver Using Google Glasses When He Crashed?

This Couch Is the Only Place It’s Ever Ok To Fall Asleep At the Wheel

And now, two 50-foot-long cars shaped like mythological serpents

The Best Designed Vintage SUV Is Hand Built with Taste

Nevada Finally Lets Google’s Driverless Cars Loose

MIT Student Builds Awesome Working Mario Kart, Documents Process Every Step of the Way

What Do These Crazy Hacked Cars Have To Do With Michel Gondry’s Next Film?

We Waste a Billion Gallons of Gas a Year Because We’re So Fat

For $4500, You Can Drive Around in a Giant Milk Carton and Cereal Bowl

Behind the Scenes of a Colossal Car Crash Test

The Mechanical Turn Signals On This Concept Car Look Like Fluttering Eyelashes

The Day Your Car Kidnaps You

The Household Car Module Puts Your Kitchen on Wheels

Vacuum Powered Dragsters Should Make Short Work Of Housecleaning

A Blind Man Is Driving This Car

Vibrating Car Seats Ensure Your Butt’s the First To Know About Dangers

What Exactly Is That New Car Smell?

The Mystery Machine is for sale for $3,200 in California

I Would Gladly Sail into the Heart of Darkness Aboard a “Jungle Yacht”

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