We talked to the co-founder of Tesla, JB Straubel, about why giant batteries are crucial to the future of power grids everywhere. Batteries are becoming more useful at powering bigger things like bikes,... continue reading
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Police in West Midlands, UK have released footage of criminals stealing a car by relaying a signal from the key inside the home, to the car in the driveway. Source: CNNMoney I've always wondered... continue reading
posted by b4rringt0n 6 years 3 weeks ago • 961 views • 1:30US Car Number 1, the Ferdinand Magellan, sits in the Gold Coast Railway Museum in Miami. It's 120 tonnes of bulletproof, armoured railcar: a train carriage designed to move the President of the United... continue reading
posted by b4rringt0n 6 years 1 month ago • 398 views • 4:59YouTube description: Researchers out of the Camera Culture Group at the MIT Media Lab have developed a novel imaging system that can gauge the distance of objects shrouded by fog so thick that human... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 1 month 1 week ago • 1,189 views • 2:59A point I forgot to mention in the video - The car pictured in the thumbnail was La Jamais Contente. All electric, and the first vehicle to go over 100 km/h (62 mph) in 1899! (coldfusion's yt comment)
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months 1 week ago • 158 views • 8:44In which Derek drives a replica of the first internal combustion engine car patented by Karl Benz in 1886 and talks about how cars have improved since then (claims about Nazi speed records on public roads... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months 1 week ago • 476 views • 9:14Whenever I hear the term "cleanse" it reminds me of that used car salesman and his late night ads selling a colon cleanse to remove faked impacted fecal matter.
posted by nanrod 6 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 562 views • 4:36"When coming to a lane closure, getting over early into that long line may not always be the best way to get through." From https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/rude-drivers-who-merge-at-the-last-second-are-doin.html... continue reading
posted by ant 6 years 6 months 4 weeks ago • 160 views • 1:28Believe it or not, off-roading is actually illegal in Iceland - they'll lock you up. There is an exception, though, in the form of the outrageous Icelandic Formula Offroad Championship. Strapped into home-built... continue reading
posted by newtboy 6 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 249 views • 7:24YouTube: We live in an era of self driving cars, autonomous drones, deep learning algorithms, computers that beat humans at chess and go, and so on. So it’s natural to ask, will artificial superintelligence... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 8 months 1 week ago • 297 views • 4:14YouTube description: The Park-Car was invented by Brooks Walker in the 1930s and patented in the 1950s. The car included a fifth wheel that allowed it to rotate in and out of parking spaces, as well... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 500 views • 1:31This horn is SO courteous my car was granted Canadian citizenship yesterday.
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 2,186 views • 5:51YouTube description: Oslo is the Tesla capital of the world. I spent a day in Oslo before traveling to Svalbard, and noticed that there were Teslas everywhere. Upon further investigation, I learned... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 10 months 4 weeks ago • 785 views • 7:10This French PSA is going viral. Fake car noise is blared at jaywalkers in a crosswalk, simulating a car screeching towards them at speed with it's brakes locked. The reactions are priceless, and caught... continue reading
posted by newtboy 6 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 1,452 views • 1:55YouTube: You probably know where to pump the cheapest gas and how to get price comparisons online in seconds for headphones and cars. But how would you find the best deal on an M.R.I. or a knee replacement?... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 11 months 4 weeks ago • 82 views • 6:09YT: How to do an oil change for your car! The car being worked on in this video is a 2013 Nissan Juke. The steps are pretty much the same though regardless of your own car model.
posted by iaui 6 years 11 months 4 weeks ago • 218 views • 4:03What happens if your car runs out of engine oil?
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 1 week ago • 26 views • 4:52From YouTube: "...demonstrate a way to start your car (when the battery is dead) without pushing it or using jumper cables." 031417
posted by chicchorea 7 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 1,611 views • 1:46YouTube description: In the high-speed world of rally car racing, you’re only as good as your co-driver. As these racers speed around hairpin turns on unpaved, narrow roads, drivers must rely on the... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 2 months 4 weeks ago • 540 views • 4:06Electric cars are more efficient than gas cars, but where do you think that energy comes from?
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 4 months ago • 62 views • 5:06