The future is shaping up to be an interesting place. For example, self-driving cars are starting to come of age and there’s even a sanctioned form of motorsport dedicated to electric cars known as the Formula E Championship. Now, self-driving cars and electric motorsports has been combined the result is a tad freaky to watch. […]
That’s starting to change, though, and on Tuesday we saw a major step taken by the government with the Department of Transportation presenting guidelines for the safe testing and deployment of autonomous cars, which you can read in full here. The decision to go ahead with the guidelines is based on the government’s belief […]
The visual effects team at The Mill have created what is essentially an electric go-kart transformer. It doesn’t turn into an Autobot or a Decepticon, but it can become nearly any car you need it to be. That’s because it rides on a wheelbase that’s extendable, has interchangeable hubs to accept different lug patterns for […]
The internal-combustion engine is for a gasoline engine; in a diesel engine, fuel is compressed until it explodes, after it’s sprayed in as air and pulled in by the piston. There’s a third type of engine on the horizon though and it’s called a Homogenous Charge Compression Ignition engine, or HCCI for short. HCCI engines, […]
Let’s get to know it. In the Cadenza, the 8-speed mates to a 3.3-liter V-6—but it’s safe to assume that the Korean automaker will extend its high-tech gearbox to other engines moving forward. The 8-speed isn’t Kia’s first attempt at more than a half dozen gears; the company’s rear-wheel drive K900 flagship utilizes an 8-speed […]
Roborace has revealed one of their early stage prototypes, called the Devbot, and unlike the cars that will be competing in Roborace, known as Robocars, it has a seat and steering wheel. Part of the development of the Robocars involves a human doing the driving. The data collected is being used by the various teams competing in […]
Let’s read the news about Uber. Uber on Thursday announced the acquisition of Otto, an American startup with around 90 staff working on developing self-driving trucks. The announcement was made on the same day Uber announced a deal with Volvo to source additional test cars for its growing fleet of self-driving cars. Otto co-founder […]
Still, there’s always more to learn and today we’re taking on a subject that’s a bit more complicated, which must mean it involves a bit of German engineering. You’re an under-hood expert by now, aren’t you? We’ve been sharing a whole lot of information thanks to Engineering Explained and that means you should be fluent […]
At the heart of the new system is a large touchscreen display located in the center stack, which enables users to control many of the vehicle functions. For the first time, users will be able to customize the startup screen as well as widgets for frequently-used functions. Coinciding with the arrival of Porsche’s new Panamera […]
Electric current running through power lines above the freeway delivers energy to specially-modified Scania trucks. A 2-kilometer stretch of the E16 freeway near Gävle, Sweden, nicknamed the e-way might be the world’s most advanced stretch of pavement. When the big rigs are connected to the power lines, their internal combustion engines shut off and, as a […]
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