Car Tech
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Ford's upgraded SYNC 911 Assist will debut on the 2015 Mustang.
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Ford And Intel Use Facial Recognition To Improve In-Car Tech, Safety
The two companies will research possible uses for facial recognition in cars.
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Google’s new Android Auto connectivity system coming this year
It was only a matter of time: Following the launch of Apple's iOS-based CarPlay in-car operating system at the Geneva Motor Show back in March, Google has revealed its own car operating system based on its Android platform. Called Android Auto (previously Auto Link), the new operating system will...
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Startup Says It Can Turn A Stock Audi Into A Self-Driving Car For $10K: Video
A new startup hopes to retrofit cars with autonomous capability.
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2015 Ford Mustang Offers Glovebox Knee Airbag, Seven Others: Video
People crashing their brand-new muscle cars is as much a universal constant as the arrow of time and the speed of light. At least when the inevitable happens, and photos of said crash end up all over the internet, the owner will take solace that their new 2015 Ford Mustang is the safest the company...
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Audi’s Electrically-Driven Turbo To Debut In Next-Gen Q7 TDI
Audi recently presented an RS 5 TDI concept car powered by a diesel engine equipped with an electrically-driven turbocharger. The engine features a twin-turbocharger setup where the smaller of the two turbos uses an electric motor to spool up its compressor at lower revs (up to 70,000 rpm in a few...
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It's rather pleasing to note that the cockpit of Boodhound SSC—the Land Speed Record attempt vehicle aiming to hit 1,000 mph—is exactly as high-tech and spaceship-like as you'd expect, given its mission. All too often the innards of boundary-defining machines are disappointingly drab, swathed in black paintwork with hastily-labeled switches, buttons and lights from 1960s tape reel computers and a slightly cobbled-together feeling. Not so Bloodhound SSC, whose lightweight carbon composite cockpit wouldn't look out of place in the next Star Wars movie. It's the work of 10,000 hours...
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Google's Auto Link In-Car System To Rival Apple CarPlay
It was only a matter of time: Following the launch of Apple's CarPlay in-car operating system at this year's Geneva Motor Show, Google is set to reveal its own automotive operating system. Known internally as Google Auto Link, the company will reveal its system at a software developer conference...
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Mercedes to debut MULTIBEAM LED headlight technology on 2015 CLS
Mercedes-Benz is working on an updated version of its CLS-Class for the 2015 model year and has confirmed today that the car will feature the automaker’s new MULTIBEAM LED headlights. The technology is similar to Audi’s Matrix LED headlights in that it uses multiple LEDs to enable...
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Tesla Shares Patents To Spur Electric Car Development
Tesla CEO Elon Musk views patents as a brake on the success of electric cars,
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BMW And MINI Cars Getting GoPro Integration
With the vast collection of videos on YouTube taken by people in their car, it was only a matter of time until the OEMs started catering to the hobby. Recently, we learned that Chevrolet was launching an industry-first Performance Data Recorder system for its 2015 Corvette that lets you record...
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Brembo Explains Its F1 Brake Technology: Video
The world's most prominent brake supplier explains an F1 system from pedal to caliper.
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Soon, you’ll never have to worry whether you’ve left an appliance switched on when heading out for a drive as new technology being developed by Japanese firms Toyota and Panasonic will allow you to control your home from behind the wheel. The two companies are cooperating on a cloud-based system to monitor and operate home appliances. DON'T MISS: Volkswagen Anti-Texting Ad Is Brilliantly Simple, Incredibly Frightening: Video The system is being presented by Toyota at the Smart Community Japan 2014 exhibition in Tokyo this month, prior to it being launched on the Japanese market...
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Is Tesla About To Allow Rival EVs To Use Supercharger Fast-Charging Network?
Electric car charging may be about to get a lot faster—and a lot cheaper—for everyone. Speaking at the Tesla Model S official U.K. launch, CEO Elon Musk dropped the clearest hints yet that he planned to offer Tesla Motors' [NSDQ:TSLA] Supercharger fast-charge specifications to other...
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Toyota Thinks Hover Cars Might Be A Thing
If you asked a guy in the 1960s what he thought we'd be driving today, he'd probably think about what he'd seen in a popular TV science-fiction show of the time and say "a hover car". But 1960s guy would probably be a little disappointed that what people are actually driving are cars that look a...
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Local Motors Announces Winner of 3D-Printed Car Design Contest
Local Motors will print a car based on the winning design at the International Manufacturing Technology Show this fall.
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Start Of i8 Deliveries Means BMW Is First To Market With Laser Headlights: Video
Although BMW was the first to announce plans to introduce laser headlights to its cars, revealing the technology in concept form as far back as 2011, Audi hinted earlier this year that it may in fact be the first automaker to actually start selling a car with laser lights with the reveal of its R8...
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Volvo Opts For Bowers & Wilkins Audio In New XC90
Volvo's next-generation XC90 SUV won't just introduce a new design language and interior layout to the brand, it'll also offer one of the world's best automotive audio systems. That's because Volvo has teamed up with British audio equipment company Bowers & Wilkins to develop a system for the...
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You won't be getting your knee on the ground through every corner, but Mercedes-Benz's latest technology replicates at least one of the sensations of cornering in a motorcycle--leaning into bends. MUST SEE: McLaren P1 Vs. Bugatti Veyron Drag Race In The Wild: Video Active suspension is nothing new, but the 2015 Mercedes-Benz S-Class Coupe has a clever function in its Active Body Control suspension system--Dynamic Curve. In turns, special plunger cylinders raise the suspension struts and lower the opposite side, depending on the direction of the bend. This has the result of tilting the car...
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Ford Fusion Lightweight Concept Car Goes All-Out With High-Tech Weight Savings: Video
When it comes to vehicle performance, weight is the enemy. But saving weight can do more than make a car turn better, accelerate better, and stop better. It can also make it more efficient. ALSO SEE: Homebrewed Chinese Batmobile Tumbler Replica Proving Wise Investment That’s why so many...
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Volvo Shows Off New XC90’s Button-Less Interface: Video
In just a couple of months Volvo will reveal its first all-new XC90 since the launch of the original SUV all the way back in 2002. The new XC90 is shaping up to be a much more luxurious and refined model than the one it replaces, and it will also be packing some of the latest technology found in...
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Lego V-8 And Six-Speed Sequential Gearbox Are Awesome
So you want to get to better know the inner workings of a V-8 engine, and, perhaps, how a sequential gearbox works? Well, you could always build your own. Out of Legos. MUST SEE: Angry Supercar Hater Throws Rocks At Lamborghini Aventador: Video That’s exactly what Huib van der Hart has done...
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Mercedes Doesn’t Want You To Forget Its Autonomous Car Development: Video
This week Google unveiled its first car, a prototype autonomous vehicle devoid of a steering wheel and brakes yet capable of transporting passengers at speeds of up to 25 mph. Like most fully autonomous cars, Google’s prototype can only travel on pre-set routes but the plan is to eventually...
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Ford Introducing Adaptive Steering: Video
Ford already offers electronic power steering, which helps to conserve fuel by using an electric motor to assist the steering instead of a hydraulic system drawing energy from the engine. Now Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] is enhancing its steering system with a new feature called Adaptive Steering...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran