ABCNews is running a story today by Lisa Stark and Lindsey Ellerson, “New Technology Successful in Reducing Severity of Car Crashes.” Basically it’s a run down of technologies (available and in development) to combat driver distraction for collision and accident avoidance. (The article runs to three pages and is well worth your time to get [...]
For as much as the idea of an electric sports car has always been sexy, I’ve never been that big a fan of Tesla because the cars were ridiculously expensive and to my mind a little counter-productive to the whole idea of electrical cars for the rest of us. I want to see practical electrical [...]
An updated version of Microsoft Sync will show up in the 2010 Fords and will include:
- traffic info
- directions, and
- voice navigated news.
The guys over at Engadget, who haven’t been big fans of Sync, did a hands on review earlier this month complete with video shot inside a Ford Escape.
It’s short and sweet, but [...]
I have an open lust for a MINI and so this post on Engadget caught my eye. The Mini E (electric) will be on display next month at the LA Auto Show with 500 units available in the U.S. on lease to 500 “commercial and private customers in California, New York and New Jersey sometime [...]
Although gas prices are, at last, thankfully coming down a bit, the price per gallon is still hovering around $3 and larger economic woes continue to make a trip to the pump a pain in the . . . well, you get the idea. People are trading out of their monster SUVs and trucks and [...]
Seems the automotive buzzword these days is “electric.” We’ve all heard about the Chevy Volt. We’ve seen the elegant, sporty Tesla — that none of us will ever be able to afford. We’ve heard about the third-party conversions of the Prius to a plug-in version. And now, no less of a designer than Pininfarina has [...]
Airbags may not be the sexiest auto tech to discuss — until you need them. I never thought twice about airbags in my old Taurus until an elderly man, who thought he was in the turn lane, came to a full stop in my lane. I couldn’t avoid hitting him and the impact set off [...]
CNN is carrying an interesting story today headlined, “Hybrids Trick Out, Plug In.” Datelined from San Francisco, the story discusses hybrid drivers who are seeking conversions from gas power to electric at the Luscious Garage where owner Carolyn Coquillette wonders if the wall outlet is tomorrow’s gas tank.
Essentially the conversion involves adding more batteries to [...]
Honda is debuting a new version of the venerable Odyssey mini van in Japan next month complete with a “multi-view camera system” developed by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. The unit will afford drivers with a 360 degree view of the area around the van on a single display.
They’ve mounted four CCD cameras on the [...]
All we hear about these days is how overweight we are as a nation. I go out for bike rides and see folks wheezing along doing their best to trim their waist lines. (And having just done that myself, I cheer them along.) But we, as individuals, aren’t the only ones being weight conscious. Every [...]