Tag Archives: automotive

I’d Hate to See a Blue Screen of Death in One of These

By admin | Published: October 20, 2010

Windows Embedded Automotive 7 is now in cars you can buy. Via Autoblog: Windows Embedded Automotive 7 introduces new technologies such as Silverlight, which allows for 2D and 3D graphics improvements, and Tellme speech technology, which allows real-time text-to-speech technology and the ability to respond to text messages using spoken input.

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It’s About Making Driving Better, Not Doing It For Me

By admin | Published: August 27, 2010

This company has just released an AR iphone app that you see above. And the first thing I thought was that with all of the DARPA (MIT, etc.) focus on robotic driving in recent years, where has the innovation been around making your driving experience better/safer etc.? This whole AR overlay on your driving experience [...]

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They Don’t Make ‘Em Like That Anymore

By admin | Published: July 29, 2010

1974 Dodge Dart Hang Ten interior. Love the stripes.

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Study: The Problem With Mass Adoption of EVs in China

By admin | Published: June 1, 2010

From Autoblog: This study, conducted by the Argonne National Laboratory and China’s Tsinghua University, specifically focuses on China and concludes that mass EV adoption could lead to tremendously higher emissions of carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide due to the country’s widespread use of coal as a power source. Here’s the skinny from the [...]

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Tesla Model S Leaked

By admin | Published: March 26, 2009

See More Check out that big, honkin’ dashbard screen. All thoese pixels. So many possible usages… Infotainment Navigational and Hyper-Local content Telemetry based on driving behavior/driving style Diagnostics Max Headroom

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New Jaguar/Land Rover Design Studio

By admin | Published: December 18, 2007

(via Autoblog) Jag and Land Rover worked with four suppliers to create the four-walled studio. Projecting power will come from eight Sony SRX-S105 projectors, each one of them as powerful as the best cinema-standard projector and each one having four times the resolution of HD. With that kind of capability, designers — wearing 3-D glasses [...]

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