I just recently reentered the fun hobby of radio controlled cars. I had a pair of cars way back when my son was a young. He recently bought a Traxxas Rustler. Naturally I had to go get one too. I bought the Traxxas Slash. These cars/trucks are crazy fast and way fun. They have definitely come a long ways since I was last playing with them.
Here are some amphibious cars I found on some websites on the internet. These cars can be used both on the water or on the road. Its an interesting ones. They modified these cars so it can be used in 2 different environments. Check these out
Today, Elon Musk’s Tesla Motors announced a plan to allow consumers to finance its Model S Electric cars, thanks to a partnership with Wells Fargo and US Bank.
The company says that this is a new kind of financing product that “combines the surety and comfort of ownership with all the advantages of a traditional lease.” So while this isn’t a straight-up lease, this is a hyb
With the frequent focus on mobile machinations and desktop deliberations here in the Linux blogosphere, it would be easy to assume that all else in the FOSS fiefdom is relatively conflict-free. Easy, perhaps -- but dead wrong, nonetheless. Case in point: cars. There's a growing movement to apply the open source model to the design and manufacturing of electric cars. Sounds cool, right?
More than 100 cars were disabled when a hacker installed modified systems that would normally disable cars when drivers miss payments. The system, Webtech Plus, is an alternative way to “repo” cars when customers can’t pay. The company simply flips a switch and your car is disabled. The company places a device under the dash [...]
More than 100 cars were disabled when a hacker installed modified systems that would normally disable cars when drivers miss payments. The system, Webtech Plus, is an alternative way to “repo” cars when customers can’t pay. The company simply flips a switch and your car is disabled. The company places a device under the dash [...]
Cisco today announced the results of its study into consumer’s thoughts about connected and driverless cars. While a large part of the study focused on the role of technology in the car shopping experience (unsurprisingly, nobody likes car dealerships), the study also looked into drivers’ attitudes about driverless cars.
A space foil used to develop a European spaceplane has been transformed into an automobile sensor that is being used to measure deformation of cars after crash tests – and thus make cars safer to drive here on Earth.
My friend and I just built a search engine for used cars. The backend is Django, Solr, Postgres, with RabbitMQ + Celery driving the webcrawler. All running on an Ubuntu Server on EC2 :)
Right now we're indexing ~500GB/day, and hoping to have more listings than Autotrader.com soon =)
Would love feedback, if any of you are into cars: http://carsabi.com
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