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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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
The other powertrain that we’ll definitely see in the Focus is a full battery electric option. The Focus Electric will join the lineup sometime in 2011 using a lithium ion battery pack and electric drive developed in cooperation with Magna International. The Focus Electric is expected to have a driving range of 80-100 miles. Read [...]
Reading a few blogs this morning I came across a term I had never head before: Shan Zhai. Shanzhai (simplified Chinese: 山寨; pinyin: shānzhài) refers to Chinese knockoff and pirated brands and goods, particularly electronics. Literally “mountain village” or “mountain stronghold”, the term refers to the mountain stockades of warlords or thieves, far away from [...]
Using a rig set up in the boot, the following image was created by racing a vintage E-Type. It will be interesting to see what visual “signature” each track creates, or if they all end up looking similar. Essentially, let’s see what patterns this thing creates based on track topography.
After my last post railing on a particular microsite – and possibly calling into question the validity of the medium (of a microsite) itself – I’d like to point out an execution I feel is particularly beautiful, immersive and successful: The 2010 Ford Fusion Site, by Soleil Noir. This execution has it all: gorgeous use [...]
(via Autoblog) the GINA Light Visionary Model’s outer skin, which is made entirely out of textile fabric that’s pulled taut around a frame of metal and carbon fiber wires. The skeleton of the car is controlled by electro-hydraulic devices and can actually move and change shape beneath the fabric skin. For instance, the headlights of [...]