Hopefully someone will bring a couple of these to the American Le Mans Series to battle the Porsches, Ferraris, Corvettes and BMWs
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The new +McLaren Automotive MP4-12C GT3 will be hitting race tracks all over the world this year with 25 examples participating in a number of different series.
It will be interesting to see if the teams can replicate the success of the F1 GTR which took the GT ranks by storm in 1995 and took an overall victory in the 24 Hours of Le Mans http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLaren_F1_GTR with a car that had surprisingly minimal modifications from the road car. The 12C won't be running at Le Sarthe in June of this year but come 2013, who knows?
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Handpresso Auto, A Hand-Held Espresso Machine for the Car
Handpresso Auto, A Hand-Held Espresso Machine for the Carhttp://youtu.be/vqhDhv2al38 Handpresso Auto is a portable espresso machine that plugs into a car's 12 volt power socket (video). vi…
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We probably won't see wide spread use of autonomous vehicles until closer to the end of this decade but they have tremendous potential for enabling personal mobility for the very young, the old and the physically challenged like Steve Mahan.
Even for the rest of us, autonomous vehicles have the potential to dramatically reduce traffic jams, especially if we apply the tech to small footprint urban vehicles as demonstrated by +General Motors EN-V concepts. Reduced congestion and steadier speeds also means reduced energy use and safer roads.
I love to drive on a winding road, but frankly on my daily highway commute to the office, I'd just as soon sit back, turn on the kindle and let the car do the work.
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We announced our self-driving car project in 2010 (http://goo.gl/dI6qA) with a clear goal: make driving safer, more enjoyable and more efficient.
There’s much left to design and test, but we’ve now safely completed more than 200,000 miles of computer-led driving, gathering great experiences and an overwhelming number of enthusiastic supporters.
We wanted to share one of our favorite moments from some special research we conducted. Watch this video of Steve, who joined us for a drive on a carefully programmed route to experience being behind the wheel in a whole new way. We organized this test as a technical experiment outside of our core research efforts, but we think it’s also a promising look at what this kind of technology may one day deliver for society if rigorous technical and safety standards can be met.
A version of this video with audio captions is available here: http://goo.gl/k5K9Q
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Forgot the screen shot of the D3 running Gummy 0.9
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Maybe someday Motorola and Verizon will get there act together and actually release an official version of ICS for any of their 2011 phones
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The 2013 Ford Explorer is second a second EcoBoost engine option for 2013 with the introduction of the 350+ hp Explorer Sport. Instead of the 237 hp 2.0-liter four-cylinder EcoBoost, this one gets a version of the 3.5-liter twin-turbo V6 from the Taurus SHO.
The result will be the fastest production Explorer ever.
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Last week when we drove the new police version of the Ford Explorer, we asked whether the civilian car handled as well as its law enforcement counterpart. The answer then was no, but it seems like tha…
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Rosie's favorite position, she likes to just roll over on her back and wait for someone to give her a belly rub
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A fascinating animation produced by NASA that shows the motion of the world's oceans over a two year period.
http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/28/2907197/nasas-perpetual-ocean-video-seas-surface-movement
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Ford just announced it will offer a new (for North America) diesel engine in the coming 2013 Transit. This news comes on the heels of Ford's earlier announcement that the full-size van will get the popular 3.5-liter EcoBoost engine.
Exact power outputs for the EcoBoost in the Transit have not been released, but Ford says the new van will offer at least 25 percent better fuel economy (in all configurations) than the E-Series van it replaces, weighing as much as 300 pounds less as well.
The tur…
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