Car Tech
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BMW plans to start installing its laser headlights onto production cars within three years.
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Nissan Juke-R Video: GT-R Tech Beyond The Drivetrain
The headline feature of the truly nutty Nissan Juke-R Concept is obviously the twin-turbo V-6 powertrain lifted straight out of the Nissan GT-R. But that's not the only tech the Juke-R gets from Godzilla. It also gets the GT-R's advanced traction control and dynamics logic, to help control all of...
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Cost2Drive App Shows What's Cheaper, Driving Or Flying
A new iPhone app allows you to easily calculate the cost difference between driving and flying to a given location.
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TeleNav Launches Navigator 7.1 For Android: Next-Gen Nav
A stress-free journey is a happy journey, and the invention of satellite navigation was the biggest boost for in-car happiness since the bench seat... if you catch our drift. GPS Navigator 7.1 for Android is the latest navigation system, described as next-gen navigation to make drivers' lives...
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Nissan Unveils 10-Minute Electric Car Charger, But It's Still 10 Years Away
There are at least three obstacles standing between electric cars and mainstream drivers: range-anxiety, battery recharge times, and the fledgling charging infrastructure. The good news is, Nissan may be well on its way to eliminating one of the three. Working in partnership with Japan's Kansai...
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TomTom's Top Gear Edition Puts Jeremy Clarkson & The Stig On Your Dash
We admit that we've been critical of TomTom, Garmin, and other aftermarket satnavs. After all, in the age of smartphones and factory-installed telematics systems, dashtop devices can seem as outdated as your grandmother's VCR. But you have to give them props for trying, and TomTom is trying very...
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By the time you're miles deep into a huge queue, traffic information on the radio or warnings on the sat nav can seem like a bit of an insult to your intelligence. That's why the most effective solution is one that BMW will be offering to all new European BMW buyers as part of its ConnectedDrive technology, previewed on cars like the Vision ConnectedDrive concept shown at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show. The Real Time Traffic Information (RTTI) system will be available at no extra cost for buyers specifying the BMW Professional navigation system with Bluetooth and telematics. Current Traffic...
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BMW Upgrades Real Time Traffic Navigation Technology
Over the weekend we gave you a glimpse of some of the future ConnectedDrive technologies BMW is working on for its future cars, some of which we’ll be seeing much sooner than later. The automaker has now announced one of these, an upgraded version of its Real Time Traffic Information (RTTI)...
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Car Of The Future: BMW ConnectedDrive Practically Drives Itself
BMW's ConnectedDrive will work to boost safety and commuting efficiency.
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Car Of The Future: BMW ConnectedDrive Offers Ambitious Infotainment Upgrades
New ConnectedDrive in-vehicle technologies make the car more functional and intuitive than ever.
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Wheelz: A Car-Sharing Service For Cash-Strapped Students
Over the past few years, we've seen a number of startups offer ways for city-dwellers to give up their personal rides and make do with borrowing cars from time to time. Zipcar is perhaps the best example of that trend, functioning less as a rental service and more like a car co-op. But recently...
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Michigan Company Develops Fuel Saving ‘Corona’ Ignition System
As automakers strive to achieve gas mileage gains and prolong the life of the internal combustion engine, it’s impressive to see the new areas of efficiency improvements being developed, even some you may never have considered before. The latest is from Michigan-based supplier Federal-Mogul...
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As everyone knows by now, Apple did not launch the iPhone 5 at yesterday's press event. This was bad news for Apple (shares slid after the meet-up), bad news for iOS developers (iOS handsets have recently been losing ground to Android), and bad news for Apple's new CEO Tim Cook (who should've been given a splashier entrance). To its credit, though, Apple did its best to get customers excited about the iPhone 4S -- in part by glamorizing the "iPhone lifestyle", which apparently includes the 2012 Nissan Leaf. The Leaf makes its appearance in a five-minute promo video for the 4S, in which...
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Nissan Follows Mazda And Adopts Ultra-High Tensile Steel
Just a day after Mazda announced that its new 2012 Mazda CX-5 would feature ultra-high tensile steel in its construction, Nissan has followed suit with an announcement that its cars will as well but only from 2013. Additionally, Nissan’s cars will only use 1,200 megapascal (approximately...
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Thrustmaster Builds A Ferrari F150 Italia Replica Wheel
Game controller company Thrustmaster has released a Ferrari F150 Italia F1 car replica steering wheel. Like the real one, it will take drivers a while to master.
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Red Light Cameras, Speed Cameras, And Now...Tire Cameras?
It's no secret that municipalities across the U.S. are strapped for cash, or that many of those places depend on high-tech hardware to put money in the city kitty. But a new camera system making its debut in Great Britain may cross the line by measuring tire treads. The device is called the...
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Beat The Monday Boredom With These Five iPhone Car Apps
It's the first day in a new week. You've probably just rocked up at your desk, powered on your computer and taken a long, deep sigh. Sounds like you have a case of the Mondays. Fear not! If you've got an iPhone sitting temptingly on your desk, set it to work downloading these car-related apps for a...
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2012 Range Rover Evoque: Certainly Not Camera Shy
Order the Surround Camera System in the 2012 Land Rover Range Rover Evoque, and you’ll get five cameras, a reverse-sensing system, and a pretty sweet interface
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The 2012 Range Rover Evoque is the first vehicle fully capable of off-roading—not just light trail use—to employ magnetorheological suspension technology
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Audi Launches New Mobile Site And Features In The U.S.
Any carmaker worth it's salt has at least one mobile customer information point these days whether an iAd, app or mobile site for customers browsing on the move. Audi of America knows this, and has updated m.audiusa.com for mobile users to provide them with a new way of accessing information about...
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Audi Launches New Mobile Features For U.S. Shoppers
Audi is making it easier for new car shoppers by launching a range of new mobile features in its downloadable apps for cars like the A6, A7, and A8.
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Can You Count To Ten? Hyundai's Next Automatic Gearbox Can
If anything is going to make you feel old it's remembering you grew up with four-, or even three-speed gearboxes. In the 1980s a trend for five-speed manual transmissions started to develop and automatics followed close behind, and from the late 1990s and early 2000s manual and automatic 'boxes...
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Spyker Sold, Nissan Reads Minds, Bentley To Le Mans: Car News Headlines
Today's mix of news is a bit of a mish-mash, with Nissan the unlikely purveyor of nascent mind-reading technology for future cars, Bentley eyeballing a return to Le Mans LMP1 competition next year, and Spyker selling to a firm that isn't CPP. Oh, and the president of Equitorial Guinea had his...
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Streetline Inks Deal With IBM To Ease America's Parking Woes
Start-ups aren't just judged by the sums of cash they've collected; they're also judged by the names and reputations of those investors. In the case of Streetline, the company recently upped its profile by landing a major deal with IBM, which could result in big improvements on the parking front...
Richard Read