Via: http://jalopnik.com/this-futuristic-concept-is-how-the-laferrari-project-st-458233430

After moving just 775 examples of this odd-ball crossover last year, it's third on the market, Honda of America finally decided to call it quits. The ZDX is now done and gone.

In recent years, airlines have got plenty of bad publicity for mis-treating passengers, most of it totally deserved. It's nice for once to see an airline do something right instead of making passengers sit on a plane for hours without food or water. 

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Ever wish Google+ had a "Save to Favorites" feature?

It can — with the help of a Chrome extension called Favorite Posts for Google+.

The extension puts a small star button onto every G+ post and comment. Clicking the star adds the post or comment to a private "Favorites" section that you can access from the main G+ navigation bar. Your saved stuff is accessible in any Chrome browser where you're signed in and the extension is installed (there's currently no way to access it from a mobile app, unfortunately).

Favorite Posts for Google+ has a few other bells and whistles, like options for adding one-click buttons to save any post or comment directly to Pocket or Instapaper. You can also tell the app to automatically save anything that you +1.

All in all, it's an interesting idea implemented in a way that makes it feel like a natural part of the platform. You can find the extension here, if you want to give it a whirl:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/favorite-posts-for-google/kbhljnodjcehoonoejjpjnifgkkgjiec/related

+Ford Motor Company is getting ready to build this year's run of 50 Mustang Cobra Jets and a couple of new colors are available including green and flat-black.

Fully autonomous vehicles are still several years in the future, but the enabling technologies are increasingly appearing in today's cars. One example is the use of satellite based location and terrain mapping data in controlling vehicle systems. +BMW and other manufacturers have talked for some time about this kind of integration. 

If the car knows can look far enough down the road beyond the driver's sight-lines, it can make control decisions about managing things like the throttle, transmission, brakes and other systems to optimize fuel efficiency by avoiding acceleration or a down-shift right before you crest a hill or allowing the cruise control to dissipate speed before going into a corner. It should be very interesting to see how well this first generation control system works out. 

I love the precision mechanical sound of a +Porsche 911 boxer-6, the muted whoosh of an +Audi R18 TDI racing diesel and the high-pitched wail of a +Ferrari V12, but frankly there is nothing quite so visceral as a large displacement V8 engine. Spend a weekend at an ALMS race and you'll hear all kinds of engine notes but it's the Corvettes that sound the best. In some respects the closest you'll get to a classic Can-Am car like the +McLaren Automotive M8 today is actually the LS3-powered LMPC class in ALMS. Follow the link and watch the clips of the two M8s being fired up.