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Buick Builds A Smartphone Game For Hypermilers
Buick has released a new suite of smartphone games that encourage fuel saving habits. Hypermilers, rejoice! The Buick Fuel Efficiency Games app might not have the flashiest name out there, but it’s a free app for Android or Apple that contains three separate games that teach about stop/start technology, regenerative braking and aerodynamic optimization. The [...]
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Autonomous Cars Through the Ages
Google's self-driving Prius hybrids trace their lineage to an idea that captured the public's imagination in 1939. A look back at autonomous cars through the ages.
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Autonomous Quadrotors Fly Amazing Formations
Roboticists at the University of Pennsylvania's GRASP are able to get as many as 20 amazing autonomous microcopters to fly in formation and perform complex maneuvers flawlessly.
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GE Heads North For New Jet Engine Ice Test Facility
Jet engines on airliners can swallow a fair amount of ice during a flight, and to make sure they’re up to the task, engine makers bombard them with all kinds of frozen water. This week General Electric pulled the cover off its newest engine testing facility in the appropriately cold location of Winnipeg, Manitoba. The [...]
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Automakers Slim Down With Weight Loss Support Group
The Center for Automotive Research (CAR) is launching a campaign to help cars lose weight in order to gain efficiency and performance. By bringing together members of the aluminum and plastics/composites industries, CAR hopes that automakers will reap the benefits of new lightweight materials to meet stricter fuel economy standards without sacrificing acceleration or handling. [...]
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Nissan’s Electric Race Car Makes for Good, Clean Fun
After a few laps around a track in Dubai, we discover the Nissan Leaf RC is as slow as it is expensive, but nevertheless awesome.
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Video: SpaceX Tests New ‘Super’ Rocket Engines
The SoCal startup SpaceX fires up its "SuperDraco" rockets, which company boss Elon Musk promises "represent the best of cutting-edge technology."
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Nissan’s Slippery Solar Ship Saves 13 Tons Of Fuel Each Trip
Nissan has unveiled a new roll-on/roll-off car carrier that promises to save more fuel than any vehicle on board possibly could. Used in Japan to deliver cars domestically to the ports of Yokohama, Kobe and Kyushu, the Nichioh Maru roll-on/roll-off (RoRo) is the length of one and a half football fields and can carry 1,380 cars. [...]
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Symbols May Make License Plates Easier to Read, Remember
A Massachusetts businessman redesigns the license plate to make it easier for crime victims and witnesses to remember registration numbers.
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A ‘Silver Buckshot’ Will Mend Our Fuelish Ways
No one technology will lead us to a cleaner, greener motoring future. We'll see a range of fuels and drivetrains.
