Category Archives: Car

Kangaroo Narrowly Escapes Death During Australian Car Race

A lucky kangaroo!

Nissan Pivo 2 Concept Car

From Jalopnik. (Tokyo Auto Show Preview)
It looks ugly! But, it is cute!
Nissan’s Pivo concept car can drive sideways too. (Google news)
Japan’s Nissan Motor Co. on Friday unveiled a new version of its egg-shaped Pivo concept car that can drive sideways and has a small robot to assist with navigation or calm down angry [...]

Very Cool Looking Hi-tech Motorcycle

View at Confederate Motor Company.
Conceived by the leader of our conceptual design team, Mr. Ed Jacobs, the motorcycle is at once primitive, bohemian, and yet highly technical. She is skeletal, i.e. she showcases human crafts work. The machine is minimal ; using the fewest pieces, moving parts and systems to accomplish her dynamic mission. ..
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Computers Expose The Physics of NASCAR

From Physorg.com.
It’s an odd combination of Navier-Stokes equations and NASCAR driving. Computer scientists at the University of Washington have developed software that is incorporated in new technology allowing television audiences to instantaneously see how air flows around speeding cars.
The algorithm Model Reduction for Real-time Fluids, first presented at a SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference last August, [...]

First Open-Source Car

The world’s first open-source car! Cumbersomely dubbed “c,mm,n” (say “common”), was introduced at AutoRAI in Amsterdam. (from Winding Road)
Looks cool!