Cars
Forget the Helicopter, Drones Make Aerial Videos Attainable
Image: Kippenberger Racing
The average episode of Top Gear runs around $1 million to produce. But those high-style, high-flying – and incredibly expensive – aerial shots just got slightly more affordable with the introduction of a new quadrocopter specifically developed for ...
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As Congress Mulls Mandate on Car Black Boxes, Data Ownership Remains Unclear
Photo by Harris Technical Services
The term “black boxes” conjures up images of plane crashes for some and inspires conspiracy theories for others. For the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA), the automotive black box became a key source of impartial ...
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Someone Needs to Buy the ‘World’s Fastest’ Amphibious Car
Image: Fantasy Junction
If you needed more proof that you can win a world record for just about anything, meet the Sea Lion. It’s an amphibious car capable of speeds of up to 180 mph on land and over 45 mph ...
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SpaceX Counting Down For Historic Launch To Space Station
Photo: NASA
Elon Musk is one step closer to his end goal of making human life multi-planetary. No, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket hasn’t boosted the Dragon spacecraft into its rendezvous orbit with the International Space Station quite yet. That launch ...
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Google Goes to Washington to Lobby for Self-Driving Cars
Photo by Allen Tran
Google is evidently taking its campaign to make its driverless cars legal on U.S. roads from state capitals to the nation’s capital. A Google robo-Prius was spotted last Tuesday roaming the streets of Washington, D.C., only a ...
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OnStar Files Patents for Minority Report-Style Billboards
Two weeks ago, a patent filing by General Motors was uncovered that proposed using data collected from its OnStar service to tailor public advertisements to individual drivers.
Like the billboards Tom Cruise encountered in Minority Report, the OnStar-linked ads would be ...
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Space Industry Veteran (Re)Entering The Commercial Space Race
Image: ATK
The Utah company that built the solid rocket boosters for the now retired space shuttle program announced plans to enter the next phase of American space flight with its own private launch system. Alliant Techsystems, or ATK as it ...
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Siemens’ New Electric Trucks Hanging On A Wire
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German conglomerate Siemens has introduced a new electric truck that uses overhead electrical wires to power hybrid trucks.
Unveiled at the Electric Vehicle Symposium in LA this week, the ”eHighway of the Future” concept puts overhead catenaries over heavily-traveled ...
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Review: Stripped-Down Porsche Cayman R Performs Like a World-Class Athlete
Photo by Basem Wasef/Wired
In this unprecedented age of obscene horsepower and affordable performance, the Porsche Cayman R is the Jenyne Butterfly of the sports car world.
Who is Jenyne Butterfly? Look her up, preferably not at work.
At 2,855 pounds (or 2,910 ...
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Electric Airplane Design Uses Flying Drone Batteries to Boost Range
Image: Flight of the Century
An electric-vehicle veteran is turning his efforts from two wheels to a pair of wings as he sets his sights on electric-powered airplanes for his latest world record attempts.
But Chip Yates isn’t satisfied with simply flying ...
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