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Uncomplicated Methods on Getting Cheap Car Insurance plan in California

With the prevailing economic circumstance in the country, a lot more and a lot more men and women are thinking about getting affordable auto insurance. Right here is how it is possible to do it if you are in California. Cheap California Auto Insurance …

About Classic Muscle Cars

Nostalgic memories bring to life fond memories of times long gone by, that rouse emotional feelings within us. They are reminiscent of a different age or rather a different generation. The classic muscle cars are a perfect example for this. Their attra…

By 2035, Smarter Technology Should Triple Efficiency of Regular Gas-Powered Cars, If They’re Still Around

A University of Michigan researcher thinks we can triple the fuel economies in our petroleum-powered vehicles in the next 25 years. All we need to do is replace horsepower with brainpower.
John DeCicco, a lecturer at the School of Natural Resources an…

Ohio State’s Buckeye Bullet Smashes World Record For Fastest Electric Car

We’re not sure how your week was, but for a team of mechanical engineers, speed junkies, and gearheads from Ohio State it was anything but slow. This week the team took the Buckeye Bullet version 2.5, the team’s battery powered, all-electric landspeed…

A Sensor That Tracks Cosmic Particles Could Spot Hidden Nuclear Threats Before They Cross Our Borders

Smuggling a nuclear weapon into the U.S. is distressingly simple—all someone needs is a truck full of watermelons. Regulations prohibit using high-power x-rays on perishables, and Geiger counters don’t beep alerts because the juicy fruit absorbs r…

What Beijing’s 62-Mile, Nine-Day Traffic Jam Means For China’s Turbulent Future of the Car

You may not have heard about it during your local traffic report this weekend, but anyone negotiating the Beijing-Tibet expressway in recent days is painfully aware of the problem: a 62-mile jam that slowed traffic to a crawl between the Chinese capi…

Plant Enzyme Can Convert Carbon Monoxide Into Propane, Paving the Way for Exhaust-Powered Cars

An enzyme found in soybeans could turn an ingredient in vehicle exhaust into new usable fuel, according to a new study. It’s a major step on the path toward making fuel out of thin air.
Scientists were working with a microbe called Azotobacter vinelan…

Video: Engineers Turn Giant Robot Arm Into An Awesome F1 Simulator

The hot-pink industrial arm whips you around while you sit in the driver’s seat

Paolo Robuffo Giordano and colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany, must really enjoy their jobs. Their CyberMotion Simulat…

Volvo Initiative Aims to Guarantee Fatality-Free Cars By 2020

Next-generation cars are already being designed to keep us comfortable. But some car companies are going a step further, aiming to make us invincible inside our cars.
By 2020, “nobody shall be seriously injured or killed in a new Volvo,” according to …

Bio-Bug, UK’s First Sewage-Powered Car, Takes to the Streets

Think your car runs like crap? A sewage utility in Bristol, UK, has converted a Volkswagen Beetle to run on human waste. The Bio-Bug is the first car in the UK to run on byproducts of sewage processing, and if its trial run is successful Wessex Water,…

A Single Pedal for Braking and Acceleration, to Prevent Accidents

An invention that’s been around for two decades, but is only now getting any real attention, could change the way millions of people drive — if people ever have the good sense to adopt it, its inventor says. Japanese inventor Masuyuki Naruse claims t…

China’s Two-Lane-Wide "Straddling Bus" Carries Passengers Overhead, Lets Traffic Pass Underneath

Each 3D Fast Bus can carry over a thousand passengers

Public transit in a metropolitan area is all about balance; if there aren’t enough public transit options, too many people choose to drive, clogging roadways and adding to pollution. But trains are…

How Air Suspension Works!

By: katrina
There are three basic types of air suspensions: the double convoluted, the tapered sleeve and the rolling sleeve. The double convoluted air suspension is used in front-driven suspensions and is able to carry more weight than the other types. The double convoluted system is used in many vehicles that carry loads, like trucks. It [...]

Do You Know About Auto Transport Companies and How Can They Help?

By: L.Steven Sanders

What are auto transport companies? These are organizations which provide the service of delivering your vehicle to your new home. You will discover two kinds of assistance that most auto transporters can supply. Having a program like this, your vehicle will be either picked up and placed on a hauling truck, or it [...]

Buying used car: some tips to inspect it

By: Edmund N. Figueroa
Buying used car is not a simple thing to do. There are many things that you have to look at in order to get the best car in the best price. You will find that this will save your money since you do not have to pay much money to have this [...]

Future Nissan Cars Will Spray Vitamin C to Keep Passengers Healthy

Cars will dispense vitamins and helpful reminders

Never mind running on electricity — cars of the future will be so helpful, they’ll spray us with vitamins and make sure we never forget another anniversary.
That’s the future envisioned by the people …

The Chevy Volt Gets a Price Tag: $41,000 Before Tax Credit, First Deliveries in November

When the Chevy Volt concept first materialized a few years back, there were a lot of questions surrounding America’s first mass-market electric car. While answers to most of those questions dribbled out over the last few years, GM remained mum on on…

Customize Your Classic Car – Paint Your Own Rims

By: Steamboat L. Salter
Paint your own Rims? Who would have thought something previously done by professionals could be done in your own home.

While, the concept of painting your own rims has been around a few years now, many questions pop up of how to do it and I thought I would share my own experiences [...]

Toyota Highlander the First Car Based Midsized SUV

By: sumitdadhich
Men improved their mode of transportation from early centuries to present era. Slowly cars were developed and so were their variety. From small size to mid-size, from a diesel engine to petrol efficient there was a major discovery that made the movement of men much easier. Cars were slowly transformed into a style statement [...]

The World’s Worst Drivers – Car Accident Statistics From Around the World

By: David Halbert
Millions of Car Accidents occur worldwide every year, and the fatalities due to these accidents are also in the millions. Most of the time, it is somehow the driver who is responsible for the accident.

According to a Traffic Report by the WHO, road accidents kill more than 1.2 million people annually, and around [...]