Three-wheeled eRinGo car concept: no thanks

Posted in Articles by Nicr on the October 22nd, 2009

It's hard to hold the designers of concept cars accountable — so few ever come close to seeing the light of day, and they are, after all — concepts. That said, the eRinGo car is one design we seriously hope never comes to fruition. A two-seater that's capable of converting back and forth between o……

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Ford GPS tech could tell cars when you're going too fast

Posted in Articles by Nicr on the October 15th, 2009

We like it when GPS is feeding us information, telling us when traffic is causing a problem and indicating when a bridge is out so that we can warm up our voices ahead of all the hootin' and a hollerin' required for our General Lee replica to clear the gap. However, we're not too keen on the All-……

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California Cool Cars regs put the kibosh on radio, cellphone, and GPS reception

Posted in Articles by Nicr on the October 15th, 2009

We've seen plenty of tech over the years meant to mitigate our destruction of the environment — from greener autos to Grateful Dead-themed cellphones — most of which don't really ask us to tone down our consumer impulses all that much. But how about these new “Cool Cars” regulations recently adopte……

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IBM kicks off Battery 500 Project to boost EV range, 500 miles or bust

Posted in Articles by Nicr on the October 8th, 2009

Electric cars certainly can look nice and promise big things, but the ones we can actually buy today rarely top 50 miles of range. Those promised for the next few years probably won't break 100, and they're not going to find wide success until things get a lot better in that department. That's th……

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Video: Google Earth animated with real time human and vehicular traffic

Posted in Articles by Nicr on the October 1st, 2009

Mmm, real time dynamic maps of the Earth. It seems nowadays that supervillainy just isn't as hard as it used to be. Back in the days of Hugo Drax, you had to be a filthy rich eccentric to ever get to spy on the whole world, whereas today all you need is Google Earth and some Georgia Institute of Technolo……

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