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Why you can't miss Monterey car week | Drive.com.au


The Monterey Car Week is arguably the largest celebration of the car anywhere, dripping in money and laced with famous faces. ✔ Monterey is the biggest car event in the world, declared Sotheby’s global head of auctions, Gord Duff ✔ Tom Kristensen, the legendary Le Mans 24 Hour race ace, was another high-profile visitor ✔ Go behind the scenes on Drive at Facebook, Instagram and YouTube

Lexus RC F 10th Anniversary Edition 2018 new car review | price, spec


Our comprehensive review of the special edition Lexus RC F Coupe to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of F Line.

Electric car makers moving into Tesla's turf with new models


FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — While Tesla grapples with internal issues like production delays, a sometimes-erratic CEO and a recent about-face on whether to go private, its rivals ar ✔ FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) While Tesla grapples with internal issues like production delays, a sometimes-erratic CEO and a recent about-face on whether to go private, its rivals are moving aggressively into the luxury electric vehicle space ✔ That's the whole point of the Model 3, which is aimed at the mass market with a starting price of $35,000 and an EPA range of 310 miles

Apple patents car seat that can buzz to alert you and change its shape


The iPhone maker filed a patent titled 'Haptic feedback for dynamic seating system' that describes a futuristic car seat capable of interacting with passengers in various ways. ✔ Chief Executive Tim Cook has suggested that Apple wants to move beyond integration of Apple smartphones into vehicle infotainment systems ✔ The illustrations show a car with a rounded roof, where a panel slides along the top of the car using multiple tracks

Google updates its speech services for developers


Google Cloud’s Text-to-Speech and Speech-to-Text APIs are getting a bunch of updates today that introduce support for more languages, make it easier to hear auto-generated voices on different speakers and that promise better transcripts thanks to improved tools for speaker recognition, among … ✔ Your phone’s speaker is different from the soundbar underneath your TV, after all ✔ For example, if a user inputs ‘please setup a meeting with John for tomorrow at 2PM’ into your app, you can decide to prompt the user to repeat ‘John’ or ‘2PM,’ if either have low confidence, but not to reprompt for ‘please’ even if has low confidence since it’s not critical to that particular sentence, the team explains

Nearly a million cars are incompatible with a new petrol set for UK launch


BRITISH motorists could be risking engine damage to their cars if they fill up with a ‘cleaner’ petrol that is being considered for sale at UK pumps. E10 petrol – although compati… ✔ Car owners in Cornwall, Wiltshire and Birmingham would be most affected if E10 replaced traditional petrol, with over 10,000 vehicles unable to use the fuel in each of the three regions ✔ It will be interesting to see whether the current consultation generates support for the Government’s proposed way forward

Uber and Toyota to develop autonomous people movers


Uber and Toyota have signed a US$500 million deal to develop a range of exclusive autonomous vehicles. ✔ The global ride-sharing company says the initial fleet of vehicles, known as Autono-MaaS (autonomous-mobility as a service) will be based on Toyota's US-only mini-van, the Sienna (below) ✔ Go behind the scenes on Drive at Facebook, Instagram and YouTube

Tesla without Elon Musk? How a once-unthinkable idea became unavoidable.


Doubts over Musk's trustworthiness have bloomed into serious concerns about whether the company needs a more professional, predictable executive to take over daily command. ✔ The company’s accomplishments were promising but the distraction and the sideshow has been Elon, Albertine told CNBC ✔ But analysts said Tesla’s latest challenge may be one of its most critical: Calm the havoc with a leader who’s a lot more boring and operationally sane, as one put it, or stick it out with an impulsive boss who’s the cause of much of its troubles and success ✔ You can’t deny that the company is dying to have grown-up management around

Mazda CX-3 Akari 2018 Review | Price, specs, features, safety


While most vehicle classes have been around for a while, baby SUVs are a relatively new phenomenon. As such, it?s not surprising to see Mazda fine-tune its contender with a second mid-life facelift in two years.

'I hate them': Locals reportedly frustrated with Alphabet's self-driving cars


Alphabet's self-driving cars are reportedly annoying their neighbors in Arizona, where Waymo has been testing its vehicles for the last year.  ✔ The spokesperson also said that Waymo is using feedback from its early rider program to improve its technology, though it declined comment specifically on the intersection complaints mentioned in The Information story ✔ Behind the scenes at Waymo's top-secret testing site    10:02 AM ET Tue, 31 Oct 2017 | 02:08

Elon Musk suspected sabotage when Tesla factory robots stopped working earlier this month


Associates, including several people inside the company interviewed over the past week, portray Elon Musk as a workaholic who zeroes in on the smallest details, the NYT reports.  ✔ Joshua Lott | Getty Images Engineer and tech entrepreneur Elon Musk of The Boring Company talks about constructing a high speed transit tunnel at Block 37 during a news conference on June 14, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois ✔ It would fail to pick up the fiberglass, or put it in the wrong place, frequently delaying production

Every series of Power Rangers, explained


Here's a complete rundown of every Power Rangers series in the franchise's history, from a superfan and someone who vaguely remembers yelling "Triceratops" as a kid. ✔ (For the record, only three of the original five Zords were actually dinosaurs ✔ Tech Culture : From film and television to social media and games, here's your place for the lighter side of tech ✔ Batteries Not Included: The CNET team shares experiences that remind us why tech stuff is cool

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