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Was This Google Maps Car Driver Using Google Glasses When He Crashed? [Image Cache]





Oh look, a crashed Google Maps car. Was the driver using Google Glasses like Sergei Brin? [Thanks Jelly!] More »



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This Not Could Scare You Into Never Taking 2 Parking Spaces Again
Park properly or the door gets it.Have you visited UrlyBits today?Posted by Paul to UrlyBits, 2012. |
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This Couch Is the Only Place It's Ever Ok To Fall Asleep At the Wheel [Furniture]





At some point in your life you're going to have to give up the dream of sleeping in an awesome car bed. We still totally support you, but the rest of society won't be as accepting. So as an alternative, yo...
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Worst Funeral Procession Ever?
I’m really hoping that coffin is empty and that they haven’t yet stuffed grandma into it!Have you visited UrlyBits today?Posted by Paul to UrlyBits, 2012. |
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Save Money On Car Insurance
I do this all the time and it saves me an absolute fortune on car insurance.Have you visited UrlyBits today?Posted by Paul to UrlyBits, 2012. |
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The Best Designed Vintage SUV Is Hand Built with Taste [Video]





The ICON Bronco is a praise the lord beautiful vintage SUV that prides itself on its attention to design. ICON scours around for old Broncos and then strips it down, reverse engineers it and makes it bett...
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Nevada Finally Lets Google's Driverless Cars Loose [Cars]





Earlier this year, Nevada became the first state to approve the use of self-driving cars on its highways. Now, it's granted its first license for the vehicles and it goes to—what a surprise—Goo...
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MIT Student Builds Awesome Working Mario Kart, Documents Process Every Step of the Way [Video]





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Did He Deserve To Be Beaten?
This suicidal pedestrian trying to lie down in front of an oncoming car in a misguided attempt to snuff it. Unfortunately for the guy trying to kick the bucket, he lies down in the road too early and the driver decides that the man can't go on the cart ye...
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What Do These Crazy Hacked Cars Have To Do With Michel Gondry's Next Film? [Cars]





When you're walking through the set of a Michel Gondry film you can't expect that everything is going to seem normal, or even make sense. Case in point, he's currently shooting an adaptation of Boris Vian'...
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We Waste a Billion Gallons of Gas a Year Because We're So Fat [Factoid]





Heavier cars use more fuel. Now some bright spark has calculated that the US uses one billion gallons more gas every year than if the entire population had remained at the average weight of the 1960s. For ...
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Traffic Light FAIL



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For $4500, You Can Drive Around in a Giant Milk Carton and Cereal Bowl [Wtf]





An Oakland-based Burning Man vet is selling this absurd "Mutant Vehicle/Art Car," on Craigslist—fashioned in the likeness of a milk carton and cereal bowl—and has chopped down the price in hope...
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Behind the Scenes of a Colossal Car Crash Test [Video]





You've seen slow-mo footage of crash tests before. For some weird reason, auto makers love to show its cars being demolished. This awesome short shows all of the preparation that goes into recreating the ...
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The Mechanical Turn Signals On This Concept Car Look Like Fluttering Eyelashes [Video]





Until Pixar came along and ruined things, headlights were often seen as a vehicle's eyes. But Mercedes-Benz refuses to give up on that anthropomorphic fantasy. Even to the point of designing a mechanical ...
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The Household Car Module Puts Your Kitchen on Wheels [Video]





While you might not have room in your driveway for a full-on mobile home, you can pack a lot of the features into your regular-sized car. If you're a serious camper or road warrior, the SwissRoomBox, a hou...
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Traction Control FAIL



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They Have no Chance FAIL



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Slight Exaggeration FAIL



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ONE OF THE REASONS



ONE OF THE REASONS
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Vacuum Powered Dragsters Should Make Short Work Of Housecleaning [Video]





Hearing stories about awesome places to work is always inspiring, and it's no surprise that working at Dyson sounds like a pretty sweet gig. To encourage creativity, and boost morale, the company had its ...
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Zimride — Cool Carsharing Option
 
Sharing more of our goods (and experiences) is increasingly popular in our networked world. And carsharing is one small (but significant) aspect of that. Zimride is one company leading the way on that front. Here’s “The Hitchhiker’...
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FAIL Nation: Domino Effect FAIL



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Transportation News Roundup (8 Top Stories)
 
So many stories have piled up in the past few days or so that I think it’s time for a few roundup posts. Here’s one on clean transportation:
1. Toyota reported today that its Prius model hit an all-time US sales record in March in the m...
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Electric Sportscar Ice Racing (VIDEO)
 
From what I’ve noticed, there’s a pretty passionate electric car racing community out there. I often see stories on the subject over on Gas2. Normally, I pass on covering these, as I don’t see them as all that relevant to tackling...
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Prius Rebound Effect Wrong
 
This is a special guest post by Shakeb Afsah and Kendyl Salcito, via CO2 Scorecard (h/t Climate Progress). I remember several years ago hearing this claim that Prius drivers drove more and ended up having a net negative effect on the environment as...
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A Blind Man Is Driving This Car [Video]





This is Steve. 95% of his vision is gone. He's blind. And he's behind the wheel of this car, travelling perfectly across his neighborhood. It's an amazing feat. A technological miracle. More &raqu...
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Vibrating Car Seats Ensure Your Butt's the First To Know About Dangers [Automotive]





A few days ago we reported on how a prototype vibrating steering wheel could provide GPS directions with minimal driver distraction. And now it turns out that Cadillac will implement a similar system using...
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Clean Links: Solar, Wind, Energy Efficiency, Clean Transport, Energy Storage, Geothermal, & Waste-2-Energy News Roundup
 
Some other top cleantech posts from the past couple weeks or so:
Wind Power
1. Vestas published an interesting video on the chemistry of wind turbine blades (above) — interesting.
2. “A consortium led by GICON Grossmann Ingenieur Consul...
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What Exactly Is That New Car Smell? [Giz Explains]





The smell of a new car is intoxicating. It reminds us of money and shiny objects. It evokes that golden period before repeat coffee stains, moldy Tupperware, and our trunk's transformation into a Good Will...
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Improving Thermoelectric Devices Takes Next Step
 
Scientists have long been looking for a way to improve our ability to utilize thermoelectric reactions. Researchers looking for just such an improvement believe they have discovered a liquid-like compound whose properties mean that it could be more...
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West Coast Electric Highway Well Under Way
Interstate 5 on the American west coast just became part of electric vehicle history --- a 160-mile stretch has just gotten 8 new fast-charging stations as part of the new [...]
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Personal EV Charging Stations for Rent, Only in Austria
  The first Austrian electric vehicle charging points with accounting systems in a residential community hit the market late last week. To make them work, the non-profit Family Construction and Housing Association (FCHA) and Wien Energie entered into...
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Over 1 Million Jobs on West Coast from Clean Economy Transition
  The governors of Washington, Oregon, and California, as well as the British Columbia premier released a report this week showing that, with a transition to a clean economy, the region would add over one million green jobs and $142 billion in GDP! T...
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The World's Biggest Auto Shredder Eats 450 Cars an Hour [Monster Machines]





In case all the missing copper didn't tip you off, scrap metal is in exceptionally high demand these days. To help meet that demand, End-of-Life vehicles are broken down into their base materials for easie...
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Lithium-Ion Battery Market to Grow 700% by 2017, New Report Finds
  Pike Research has just come out with a new market research report, “Electric Vehicle Batteries.” The report, which ranks what it thinks are the top 10 Lithium-ion battery companies, finds that market revenue for Lithium-ion (Li-ion) bat...
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Why Women Have Trouble Parking
This is totally true. Ask any woman you know.
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Badass Bookcase of the Day



Dutch design firm Denieuwegeneratie converted a vintage Jaguar into a bookcase as part of their partially-underground villa, Dutch Mountain.
To get the Jaguar book-ready, they had to cut out a large swath of the roof and remove the engi...
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The Bently EXP9F SUV concept. What are they thinking? (Link)
The Bently EXP9F SUV concept. What are they thinking? (Link)
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I Prefer Them Square. They’re Way Cooler
It’s a good deal but I always thought square tires are the best…
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Mercedes Makes an Invisible Minivan: I Hope This Becomes an Official Option [Video]





Mercedes claims that its new fuel cell technology results in vehicles with no emissions, so it's as if they're invisible to the environment. And to drive this fact home, literally, they created a vehicle ...
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OLED Lights Will Make Future Audis Glow Like Jellyfish [Video]





Like a bioluminescent creature rising from the depths, these OLED lighting concepts from Audi are simply otherworldly. Eat your heart out, KITT. More »



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SUVs of Death: Commandos Want Missiles in Their Trucks [War]





This is the counterterrorist car chase of the future. Somewhere in East Africa or the southern Arabian peninsula, several years from now, an unassuming SUV drives off the road and rolls down its window. ...
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This Nixed Charlie Sheen Superbowl Ad Totally Makes Me Want to Do Drugs and Drive a Fiat [Video]





Normally when someone quits/gets fired from the number one sitcom in the country, goes on a months-long bender, and proceeds to lose his shit in front of the entire Internet, he ends up living under a fre...
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How One "Rogue Vehicle" Took an Impromptu Tour of Philadelphia's Runways [Planes]





Air traffic controllers move over 1200 flights through Philadelphia International every day. Their job is grueling with zero margin for error and isn't getting any easier thanks to Kenneth Richard Mazik an...
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Renault Zoe EV Could Have 220-Mile Range & Low Price
 
Technology improves, in most industries, and it’s improving at a fast clip in the electric vehicle industry as more and more companies, researchers, investors, and engineers get in on the game. As Chris DeMorro of Gas2 notes below, “Ren...
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It's Apparently OK To Tweet While Driving... In a Nascar Race [Twitter]





Many states are trying to curb cellphone use while driving, but Florida's not quite there yet, so Nascar driver Brad Keselowski was able to send a few tweets from the cockpit of his car during last night's...
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Siri Will Command the New Mercedes A-Class [Cars]





Mercedes-Benz has announced its plans to fully integrate the the driver's iPhone as well as Siri assistant into future A-Class models. It'll be like having your own personal, mildly-incompetent HAL. Mor...
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Green News Daily (VIDEO)
 
I’ve just started a new thing on sister site Planetsave, a daily video and post quickly summarizing top green news. In the first video, news on global warming politics and climate science is included, but I also summarize some of the top clea...
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These Modified Cars Ferried Crews Along the Rails in Style [Past Perfect]





There are a lot of things that can go wrong with the 140,695 miles of railroad covering America. The tracks have to be inspected regularly and, rather than send crews out in full-sized train cars, these mo...
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