Michelin Tweel Airless Tires Production Starts, Will Motorcycles Get Them?
26 Nov 2014, 17:03 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / So, it begins: Michelin has started the production of their new Tweel airless tires. The Tweels will be produces in a new factory in South Carolina, but so far, the technology is only available for ...
Lexus Safety System Gets Upgraded for 2015
26 Nov 2014, 12:17 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / As Toyota is rolling in some new technology next year, most of it will also reach its Lexus luxury division. There’s no word of the new LED Array AHS going for the big L (although we’re ...
Toyota Introducing Next-Generation LED Array Headlights in 2015
26 Nov 2014, 10:48 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Nearly 70 percent of accidents involving pedestrians happen at night, in poor visibility, when drivers fail to notice people near the road or even on the road. Many automakers have started to come u...
SoundRacer VX Kickstarter Project Puts Racing Sounds in Your Car
25 Nov 2014, 11:33 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Some of the new sporty cars you can get now already come with fake engine noise blasting through the stereo to make you think what a beast of a car you bought. Some will simply enhance the car&rsquo...
Gorilla Glass Windshields Tested by The Mythbusters
21 Nov 2014, 13:31 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / There are high chances the device you’re reading this piece has a Gorilla Glass screen, which is one of the strongest on the market. And the good news doesn’t stop here, because the tech...
Android Auto Versus Apple CarPlay In Tech Demo, Google Did it Better
21 Nov 2014, 10:08 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The infotainment revolution is happening, with Google and Apple having found a neat solution to the old, expensive, low-res infotainment systems we have now on most cars. Things are quite simple, di...
LiquidPiston X Mini Engine Could Be the Smallest Range Extender
20 Nov 2014, 16:16 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Until we’ll benefit from the promised future batteries that are three times better than what we use now, we’re still going to optionally rely on range extenders for those longer electric...
Toyota Supra Mark 4 Joins World of Speed
20 Nov 2014, 15:07 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Maybe the Need for Speed series forgot about older iconic sportscars, especially with the latest titles featuring mostly the most recent exotics you can buy, but there are some hopes. If you don&rsq...
Toyota Rolling Enhanced Parking Aid System in 2015
20 Nov 2014, 11:10 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / About 30 percent of accidents resulting in property damage (and person injury) take place at low speeds when parking or departing due to limited visibility, rushing things or lack of experience. To ...
All-New Continental Optimized Braking Curve Announced, BMW S1000XR First Bike to Have It
20 Nov 2014, 09:33 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / ABS and braking systems themselves are becoming more and more complex as the safety requirements from both the law regulators and customers themselves are higher by the year. Continental announces ...
Jaguar Land Rover justDrive App Lets You Control Phone Apps via the Media System
19 Nov 2014, 15:58 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / At this year’s edition of the Los Angeles Auto Show, Indian-owned Jaguar Land Rover announced a new feature called justDrive. JLR heralds it as an app technology that integrates a number of sm...
First Android Auto Quick Tour by Consumer Reports
19 Nov 2014, 10:14 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The auto industry is orienting towards simplifying infotainment systems and how to do this better than with the help of major operating systems manufacturers like Microsoft, Apple and Google. The ta...
Advanced Lead-Carbon Batteries to Spawn a New Generation of 48V Super Hybrid Vehicles
18 Nov 2014, 17:04 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / In case eco-friendly motoring isn’t your cup of tea, the segment is focused these days on extending the range of hybrid or electric vehicles. To earn those valuable extra kilometers, you need ...
Safe Messaging and Driving with this Kickstarter Gizmo
17 Nov 2014, 10:30 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Normally, we wouldn’t encourage anyone to text and drive. It’s one of the most distractive ways to use a phone behind the wheel and one of the greatest crash causes. Still, if you can&rs...
2015 Volvo XC90 Debuts Improved Air Conditioning Multi-Filter
14 Nov 2014, 17:52 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Volvo is best known for giving away its greatest invention to the world for free. We’re referring to the three point seat belt, which was patented in 1955. Alhough the Swedish auto and truc...
Mercedes-Benz Multibeam LED Headlight Tech to Adopt 84 LEDs in 2015
14 Nov 2014, 13:37 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Everything that’s technology-related is a big obsession for the Mercedes-Benz research & development team. Lately, the German automobile manufacturer's brainiacs were predominantly fo...
Bio-Drone Is Made Out of Mushrooms, Will Melt Away after Crash
13 Nov 2014, 15:47 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Lynn Rothschild of NASA’s Ames Research Center in California believes he could solve the last problem drones are facing, which is the fact they can be detected in case of crash. The scientist ...
Google Bus Takes an Internet Ride Across Bangladesh
13 Nov 2014, 13:17 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Google has just unveiled their latest project held in the emerging South Asian country Bangladesh. Called Google Bus, the company is literally taking to the road to promote the possibilities of conn...
How Big Comet 67P Is Compared to Stuff We Know
13 Nov 2014, 11:30 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / If you watch the news, you might have heard that mankind achieved yet another milestone regarding space exploration - we landed a spacecraft on a moving comet. The story from the Armageddon movie ju...
Scientists Have Gathered for Mankind’s First Landing on a Comet: Day 0
12 Nov 2014, 15:52 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / The entire world could change starting today as mankind is about to score a first in our history: landing on a comet. After a 10-year mission, Rosetta’s Philae probe is making its first-ever l...