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 the conditions to make this happen. First, let's take a look at a plane. The wing of an airplane produces lifting force. ... [read more >>]
	17 May 2007, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Does the World's Biggest Combustion Engine Work?
	What is the world's biggest internal combustion engine? Here are some clues: it's running on diesel and it's used to power the world's largest ships. The name is Wärtsilä RTA96-C and it's the largest piston engine in the world. The turbocharged two-stroke diesel engine is manufactured by the Aioi Works in Japan and is part of Japans Diesel United Ltd engine manufacturers. What would need such an extreme en ... [read more >>]
	16 May 2007, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Car Crashes Caused by Women Increase Alarmingly
	Automobile crashes, also called road traffic accidents (RTAs), kill around 1.2 million people worldwide each year and injure about forty times this number. The most known causes in the mind of the general public are drunk driving, women driving recklesslyand hotshots who think they own the streets, especially the young ones and things get worse when two or more factors combine. A ... [read more >>]
	16 May 2007, 09:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Electric Vehicles Powered by “The Will of The People”
	Electric cars are an environmentally friendly alternative to old internal combustion engines that use fossil fuels and pollute the atmosphere. For now, they have their limitations regarding the autonomy, because electricity is very hard to store in conventional batteries. The more efficient cars are hybrids, using both electrical and internal combustion engines that recharge the electric batteries in motion. However, not many people em ... [read more >>]
	16 May 2007, 08:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Revolutionary Hydrogen Extraction Technique Can Replace Gasoline in Engines
	A breakthrough has been made in the field of alternative fuels. A new method can generate hydrogen from water with the help of an aluminum alloy, which can be used in fuel cells or internal combustion engines. It could successfully replace gasoline in conventional engines and overcomes the biggest challenge in today's hydrogen cars: how to store and transport hydrogen. Jerry Woodall, a professor of electrical and computer engin ... [read more >>]
	16 May 2007, 07:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Safer Cars Result in More Accidents
	Would you feel confident to race against a Viper or a Corvette when you're in a 20-year-old pickup-truck? Probably not. But would you feel safer driving a 4.3 tons Hummer H1 truck on a busy highway? You surely would, don't even try denying it. I guess that's why the number of SUVs sold in the US is continuously increasing. Russell S. Sobel, professor in WVU’s College of Business and Economics and his graduate student Tod ... [read more >>]
	11 May 2007, 15:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Materials Boost Hydrogen Cars' Efficiency
	Hydrogen-powered cars seem to be the best solution to the problem of fossil fuels pollution. The ever increasing concerns about global warming and the future shortage of natural fuel sources have given the automotive industry and researchers from other field alike a new impulse in developing new technologies. David S. Sholl, a professor of chemical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University is conducting a new research to ide ... [read more >>]
	10 May 2007, 16:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How To Drive in the World's Strangest SUV?
	The name is Spyker D12 Paris-to-Pekin. There's no typo here, that's the real name of the car. One point for weirdness. She's a strange looking car, the design looking more like a combination between a coupe, a muscle-car and a taller station-wagon. Probably not many of you have heard of the name Spyker. Its history mixes with that of the aviation industry in 1914 and it's probably the most individualistic car ma ... [read more >>]
	09 May 2007, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Carbon Nano Lubricant for Auto Engines
	A new material is considered a breakthrough in lubricants for auto motors, as it will greatly improve the durability and lubrication efficiency, far beyond the capabilities of current oil-based lubricants. It is called CNSC (Carbon NanoSphere Chains) and it's produced by CleanTechnology International Corp, who will begin mass production in May, at its factory in Houston, TX. According to the company, the new breakthr ... [read more >>]
	09 May 2007, 07:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Computer Tomography Used in Car Crash Testing Will Improve Passenger Safety
	Current crash-test performed on cars involve using crash test dummies fitted with up to 30 sensors than record impact forces in various points of the body and high-speed cameras. The dummies are full-scale replicas of human beings, weighted and articulated to simulate the behavior of a human body and instrumented to record as much data as possible on accident variables such as speed of impact, crushing force, bending, folding, ... [read more >>]
	07 May 2007, 16:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Fuel from Fibers – Put a Tree in Your Car's Tank
	The search for viable biofuels is well on its way, and more and more car manufacturers are presenting concepts and prototypes of "green cars," that use alternative fuel sources. Making cellulosic ethanol seems to be a good a idea. Making cars run on this fuel instead of the polluting fossilized fuel is an even better one. Cellulose is a naturally occurring complex carbohydrate polymer commonly found in plant cell ... [read more >>]
	07 May 2007, 10:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Top 10 Fastest Cars in the World
	Finding the world's fastest car isn't so easy as you might expect. Some models are well known for their 0-60 mph (0-100 km/h) acceleration, some have engines with horsepower outputs compared to those of rockets, especially if they've been heavily modified in terms of fuel, engine size or type and the number of superchargers. We will now look at the 10 street-legal factory made fastest cars in the world in term ... [read more >>]
	05 May 2007, 08:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How to Ride in the World's Fastest Car
	The car enthusiasts will probably say: "Of course we know, it's the Bugatti Veyron, with her 1001 hp and 253 mph (407 km/h)" Wrong! Although a monster of the roads and a technological wonder, the really cool Veyron will no longer be the fastest street-legal car in the world, when a new supercar will enter production, presumably in 2007. The name is Barabus TKR (not the German tuner Brabus), and she has ... [read more >>]
	04 May 2007, 17:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Alternative Fuel Cars on the Right Track
	Doing something about global warming and the rapid depletion of the world’s non-renewable energy resources has recently become an important topic on some governments' agendas, and hopefully not only because elections are coming. The first concrete measures have been to introduce extra taxes for purchasing or importing a car of which designers couldn't care less about the environment. US now have the “Gas Guzzler Tax”, and ... [read more >>]
	03 April 2007, 02:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Tangle of Turbulence Helps Design Better Cars
	Turbulence is part of the daily experience: no microscopes or telescopes are needed to notice the meanders of cigarette smoke, the gracious arabesques of cream poured into coffee or turbulent whirls in a mountain torrent. The word "turbulence" indicated first the incoherent movements of the crowd (Latin: turba), then the whirls of leaves or dust. Since Leonardo da Vinci (around the year 1500), the term took its modern meaning of ... [read more >>]
	02 April 2007, 06:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Metal That Remembers and Returns to The Original Shape
	Everybody knows that a piece of metal, once bent, is impossible to be reverted to its original state. But, a recent study revealed that, when heat is added to bent metal films having the right microstructure, the films return to their original shapes. The higher the temperature, the sooner the metal films revert. "It's as though the metal has a memory of where it came from," said Taher A. Saif, a professor of mechanical ... [read more >>]
	30 March 2007, 09:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Cars Running on Electricity from Atmospheric Hydrogen
	Researchers at the Oxford University have developed a pioneering “biofuel cell” that produces electricity from ordinary air spiced with small amounts of hydrogen and offers significant potential as an inexpensive and renewable alternative to the costly platinum-based fuel cells that have dominated discussion about the “hydrogen economy” of the future. Hydrogen fuel-cell technology sounds almost too good to be true. You combine cheap an ... [read more >>]
	28 March 2007, 05:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Lindsay Almost Killed a Paparazzo
	Usually, it's the celebrities who complain that one day a paparazzo will be the death of them. In Lindsay Lohan's case, this is all the more true since she crashed her car a couple of times last year, presumably because she was trying to shake off a paparazzi tail. According to the starlet, the accidents occurred because her car was being chased by photographers who kept blinding her with their flashes so I imagine we c ... [read more >>]
	16 March 2007, 12:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Maps Send To BMW Exciting Feature!
	Google Maps receives another important update, the company adding an impressive Send To BMW feature able to send locations from a PC directly to your car computer. The tool is quite attractive because it can use the GPS function of the computer included into your car and calculate your distance as well as the best route and the distance. “We recently introduced the ability to call businesses in the U.S. directly from Google Maps, and, a ... [read more >>]
	08 March 2007, 04:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia