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Steve Jobs’ iCar, an Unfulfilled Dream

J. Crew CEO Mickey Drexler reveals in the video embedded below how Steve Jobs had envisioned an iCar, and that Apple has had “living room” plans for a long time now. In the 40-second clip, Drexler can be heard stating, “Look at the car industry; it's a tragedy in America. Who is designing the ...

18 May 2012
07:53 GMT

Misguided Woman, 61, Spends 7 Days in Crashed Rental Car

One Texas woman is making international headlines after willingly not leaving the car she crashed into a dairy wastewater pond because it was a rental and she had been told not to leave it “if stranded.”Lynn S. Keesler, 61 asked for directions from a sheriff deputy, telling him she was looking for hotels ...

26 January 2012
08:24 GMT

Mazda SkyActive Tackles Fuel-Efficiency

Mazda “pocket sized” cars compared to giant polluting vehicles is a far more eco-friendly option. Since green improvements can't satisfy the clients' needs on their own, the major company is putting all its hopes in its new "Skyactiv" baby. "Skyactiv" appears to be an appropriate name since the...

13 December 2011
05:25 GMT

Siri Hacked Again, Assistant Now Controls Cars

A developer has used a Siri proxy plugin to establish a connection between his iPhone 4S and his car’s Viper alarm system to trigger commands such as vehicle ignition, lock the car, pop the trunk, enable alarm, and even start the engine.In a blog post, the developer elaborates on his ‘invention’ say...

25 November 2011
11:21 GMT

Bag Air with Freescale's New Accelerometers

Car airbags deploy when the vehicle crashes or is crashed into by something else, but the circuitry is, in the end, the factor that determines how reliable and fast the airbags are. Freescale wants to make sure car drivers and passengers are as safe as possible, so it made the Xtrinsic MMA65xxKW family of accelerom...

2 November 2011
16:41 GMT

Eurotech Creates Rugged Mobile Display Computer

Eurotech decided it was time to offer vehicle installations a new computer system, so it put together a device that packs advanced communications options while also featuring a significant level of ruggedness. Vehicle electronics and computing installations have to meet certain vibration-resistance and overall en...

3 October 2011
08:16 GMT

Doll Up Your Ride with CarLashes, Eyelashes for Headlights

Seeing a car with butterflies, or perhaps flowers, painted on the side, or with a sticker saying “Princess on Board” is no longer a rare occurrence. Now, women drivers have even more options to doll up their ride. CarLashes makes and sells this brand new car accessory for women – because it’s ...

7 September 2010
14:31 GMT

Locate Your Vehicle Anywhere with the Guidepoint iPhone App

GuidePoint Systems, a company that integrates GPS, advanced wireless technology, has announced the release of a new tracking, safety and convenience application for iPhone. The Guidepoint Vehicle Locator lets you locate your Guidepoint-equipped car, truck or motorcycle anytime, anywhere. The app is not compatible wit...

5 January 2010
10:00 GMT

Start Your Car Remotely with Viper SmartStart for iPhone

Viper, a company producing and selling car alarms and remote starters, has launched Viper SmartStart for iPhone and iPod touch. The app works with Viper remote-start systems and can start a car, lock or unlock its doors, open its trunk, or even locate it in a parking lot. Users can also set off a panic alarm. While m...

14 October 2009
09:44 GMT

21% of Europe Would Buy Electric Cars from Apple, Study Shows

A recent study by consultant Bain & Co. claims there is a real market for electric cars. Apparently, those already driving expensive, fuel-based cars are becoming more aware of the environmental problems posed by their use.The survey was carried out with the help of 4,000 individuals in eight countries, including the...

28 January 2009
08:46 GMT

The iMo, an Apple-Inspired Car

Automotive design student Anthony Jannarelly must really like Apple's designs, for his concept of an environmentally friendly vehicle is nothing more than a sturdy iPod on wheels. The iMo even has its own tab / section on the fake Apple website, just between Mac and iPhone. When designing the iMo, Jannarelly al...

22 December 2008
08:53 GMT

The World's Biggest Robo-Truck

The Caterpillar 797 model, weighing 700 tons, is already known as the largest truck in the world and used in tasks that require dimensions that support a load of 240 tons. But such tasks, like mining, for instance, are usually highly dangerous jobs and provide extremely difficult environments to drive through. That&#...

7 November 2008
06:59 GMT

Prepare Yourselves for Air Cars

Carbon dioxide emission gets a new bump from the vehicle industry that takes a major step into adding air among the alternative sources of fuel. Based on the idea of Guy Negre, founder and CEO of Luxembourg and France-based MDI SA company, who invented the car and had it developed in his French factories, the America...

4 November 2008
09:16 GMT

The Revolution of Parked Cars

A revolutionary system that involves actually being paid when you park your car, for helping the energy industry run smoothly, is currently undergoing development, being in test phase. Moreover, the received sums would be quite substantial, definitely more than what you pay for the parking ticket or than the fines fo...

30 October 2008
08:22 GMT

Teenager Builds His Own Electric Car with About $10,000

A 17-year old high school boy from San Antonio, Texas, has put the results of large car companies to shame by building his own electric vehicle with a budget of a little over $10,000 (including the price of the car). And he did it in no more than 150 hours of work time. As top car companies are struggling to dev...

16 October 2008
04:09 GMT

American Drivers Want More iPod Integration

Research conducted by analyst firm iSuppli has revealed that the automotive industry is preparing for a huge demand of iPod integration. 39 percent of vehicle models sold in the US in 2008 expected to offer iPod integration options. In 2009, this will rise to 58 percent of car models, iSuppli claims.Cars boasting iPo...

10 October 2008
04:34 GMT

The First Fully Functional Phone Car

Phones and cars are often used in the same context and, whether it's just drivers who can't help talking on the phone while on the road, or mobile phones designed in collaboration with famous car manufacturers, the phone - car connections are manifold. Howard Davis, an American businessman who owns a Te...

21 June 2008
06:34 GMT

Apple and the Car Business

Why not? Philip Smith, writing for FixYourThinking, found that Aptera, a concept car with "the most innovative design," would be fit for the Mac maker as an acquisition. Who can look at this picture and disagree?Actually, many can. MacsimumNews, for example, found Philip's idea quite far-fetched, but "intriguing...

16 June 2008
18:11 GMT

Build a Green Car, Win 10 Million Dollars

The X Prize Foundation is a non-profit prize institute that designs and manages public competitions for the benefit of humanity. During the course of its past activity, the X Prize Foundation held competitions such as the Ansari X Prize for Suborbital Spaceflight, the Ansari X Prize for Genomics, the Automotive X Pri...

22 March 2008
04:52 GMT

Green Technology Turns Grey All of a Sudden

Hybrid electric vehicles present us with a partial solution to alternative renewable energy production, but the problem is that they still run mostly on gasoline fuel and, while some see them as a viable technology for the future, others argue that it is just a cover to bring more money into the pockets of the car ma...

8 February 2008
06:22 GMT

Tired of the Vehicles in Halo 3? There's a New One to Be Tried Out!

Implementing a replay feature within Halo 3 is truly something that Bungie sometimes feels sorry for and this is one of those moments. According to Halo3Forum and BahamutZero's Cblog, although it isn't very hard to turn a dumpster into an aircraft, it certainly doesn't allow too much maneuverability. B...

29 October 2007
09:19 GMT

New World Speed Record for Cell-Powered Vehicle

There are many advocates for the cell-powered vehicles as an environmentally friendly alternative to the standard gas and other oil-based fuel burning vehicles. But others say that the market won't embrace this variant as these vehicles would be too slow. Now, a group of Japanese students has come to prove the c...

6 August 2007
05:36 GMT

SHADOW, the Army's 4X4 Hybrid Stealth Vehicle

The Shadow Reconnaissance, Surveillance Targeting Vehicle (RST-V) is a prototype vehicle developed by General Dynamics Land Systems for the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR).It looks like a heavily modified Hu...

28 July 2007
05:19 GMT

Dude, Check Out My Magic Wheels!

The magic wheel, or magnetic wheel is a wheel that continues to spin for a time, after being started, as if by magic. Cool, huh? This device was invented in medieval Bavaria. It looked like a wagon wheel spinning on an axle, affixed to a base. The superstitious people of the time believed it spun by the power of magi...

11 July 2007
04:03 GMT

How to Dominate The Sky in Future Warfare

The future of air combat will make the classical dogfight obsolete. The times of air aces like the Red Baron - the most successful fighter pilot of f World War I, credited with 80 confirmed air combat victories - are gone, and the next flying aces will be unmanned drones, hunting and killing ground enemies while bein...

22 June 2007
10:45 GMT

US Army Is Developing a New High-caliber Cannon System

Sandia National Laboratories in California are engaged in the development of a new high-caliber self-propelled and lightweight canon system, for the US Army. It's the most advanced program for designing a state-of-the-art canon. Currently, the US Army uses more than twenty types of self-propelled canons and mos...

22 June 2007
03:38 GMT

How Can a Formula 1 Car Drive Upside Down and Defy Gravity?

Many car enthusiasts or Formula One fans around the world have heard the statement: 'A Formula 1 car can drive upside down without falling.' Is it true? And if yes, how do they do it?If you thought abound the car's aerodynamics, you were right, but let's see exactly what are the equipments and th...

17 May 2007
17:06 GMT

How Does the World's Largest Land Vehicle Work?

It's called MAN Takraf RB293 and it's the largest terrestrial vehicle in human history,making the huge NASA Crawler that transports space shuttles to the launch pads look like a Volkswagen Beetle.Bucket-wheel excavators are heavy machines used in the mining industry and civil engineering. They are also som...

15 May 2007
17:06 GMT

How Does the Hovercraft Work?

The hovercraft (to hover - to remain floating, suspended, or fluttering in the air; craft - vessel or vehicle) is an amphibious military or civilian vehicle designed to travel over any kind of surface (as long as it's reasonably flat), being supported by a cushion of pressurized air.It may look weird and some o...

1 May 2007
17:06 GMT

Dual-Mode Train Can Switch from Tracks to Roads

Is it a train? Is it a tram? Is it a bus? Nope, it's Dual Mode AutoTram. All-in-one multi-purpose transportation vehicle.A Japanese company named JR Hokkaido Co. began commercial operations Saturday of its Dual-Mode Vehicle, a minibus with retractable train wheels for use on tracks, on a test basis on the Sem...

30 April 2007
10:05 GMT

X-Net Vehicle Arresting System

I'm sure you've seen lots of police soap operas in which police officers effectively stopped cars using spike trips. Apparently, that resulted in disintegrated tires and pissed off stunt men. Ok, ok, the spikes have also proved to be a good police tool in bringing real cars to a halt. But here's someth...

27 April 2007
12:26 GMT

450km/h Vehicle For Sale

This machine has the most outstanding set of statics you'll ever see on a motorcycle-like vehicle. Yes, it's road registrable too. It has an extremely low frontal area and the aerodynamics of a bullet. It's much lighter than a Formula one race car, but it has much less rolling resistance. The Acabion i...

27 March 2007
11:01 GMT


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