The Kenguru is a small neighborhood electric vehicle (NEV) that has been modified so that people in wheelchairs can easily enter and drive it. It’s top speed is 25 mph and it will go 60 miles on a charge. It won’t challenge a Tesla Roadster but it will provide independence for a lot of people who have had to rely on others.
It’s January 1, 2012, a brand new year. A time to set resolutions, review goals, and take stock of where you want to go this year. If you are the owner of a Fisker Karma, the first place you need to head is back to the factory. It seems that your $96 K car has a problem.
My family must be one of the few families in Australia that does not have a GPS in in our car. I suspect this is because I’m an old fogey and we don’t tend to stray too far from the nest. However, when given the chance to review a Navman MY85XLT GPS, I was interested in finding out what the fuss was about. Here’s the really funny thing: while I struggled with the touchscreen, my five-year-old daughter had it working within minutes. I like to think that’s because my daughter uses iPads at school, and no, she does not drive.
If you’ve got a General Motors car with the OnStar service, your details could be heading to the cops. And don’t think canceling the service will automatically restore your privacy.
Toyota will be expanding the Prius line to include an updated Prius 3rd generation also known as the Prius Liftback, a new Prius v with more cargo space, a Prius PHEV (plug-in electric vehicle), and the Prius c “city friendly” vehicle. All of them will get great gas mileage but all of them have their own niches.
Las Vegas could soon become the first city in the world where the cars drive themselves, with Google lobbying for a change in the law in Nevada.
With less than five years to go until Back to the Future Part II becomes a contemporary movie, those darn hoverboards are still proving elusive. But IBM believes there’ll be at least five technological advances by 2015 that are almost as impressive.
In the lead up to New Year’s Eve, AT&T is releasing a ten minute video that follows the lives of eight people that were forever altered by texting. AT&T wants people to understand that texting and driving is as bad as drinking and driving. Both can be deadly.
Google has quietly (at least until now) built up a small fleet of Toyota Prius passenger cars and modified them to drive without the aid of human beings, though there are always some there anyway.
Social media sites such as Facebook have expanded beyond the home computer to various devices. The service will soon be available via OnStar, which is mainly used for road side assistance.
Think about a nice pleasant weekend drive in the country, suddenly ruined because a hacker has taken control of your car, put on the brakes, locked the doors and windows, and started blowing the horn.
Drunk driving is a big no-no, and rightly so. However, whiskey could be about to play a big part in the future of driving thanks to a biofuel made from the by-products of distillation.
If you’re convicted of driving while under the influence in New York, you’ll be getting a gadget worth around $1,400. But it’s not something you’ll be proudly showing off.
Forget your hybrid vehicles which run on a mixture of gasoline and electric. The future could be hybrid vehicles which run on a mixture of gasoline and human waste. Move over Prius, make way for the Bio-Bug.
Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, added another to the list of private ventures to place a vehicle into space with a virtually flawless flight by their Falcon two-stage launch system.
A group of computer scientists have become concerned that automotive computers are even less secure than personal computers, and have proved that they can hack into car computers and make changes while the car is being driven.
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