Autos - SERIES 54 {12 articles}

Inventor creates his own flying car - and it looks amazing

9/10/2018, 10:28:44 AM
The inventor calls his flying car the ''Ultralight Aircraft'' and he now plans to mass produce it with a two-seater version added to to the range ✔ This was only a dream for us five years ago.'' Read More Look out, Uber! Rival ride-hailing app Ola launches in the UK The Ultralight Aircraft (Image: Newsflare) The design evolved and it took him and his team six years before they were able to make the vehicle fly (Image: Newsflare) The aircraft has a metal frame with a carbon fibre shell and resembles the structure of a drone, only bigger

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Flights at a French airport are grounded after a man rammed his car through 2 glass doors and sped onto the runway

9/10/2018, 11:41:24 AM
A video showed a white car driving across a field toward a runway at a major Lyon airport, and a person leaving the car and running across the field before getting chased by multiple police officers. The suspect has been detained, police say. ✔ DavidPeste/Twitter The driver, dressed in dark clothing, then abandoned the car and fled on foot ✔ The suspect's motives are not known at this point, the Associated Press cited Monteagudo as saying ✔ A stock photograph shows Lyon-Saint Exupery airport in December 2011, during a strike by airport security personnel

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Goodwood highlights

9/10/2018, 10:53:18 AM
Goodwood highlights ✔ Goodwood even employs troupes of actors to ensure an authentic atmosphere of motor racing's glory days of the Fifties and Sixties ✔ The Goodwood Revival includes a race for children in Austin J40 pedal cars, which is as keenly fought as any race featuring internal combustion engines ✔ The attention to detail of both hosts and Goodwood adds to the experience

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Criminals could steal supercars in seconds using new signal hijacking scam

9/10/2018, 11:54:57 AM
McLaren is racing to get ahead of car thieves after researchers claim to have found a hole in the security systems protecting the company’s supercars. ✔ Researchers at Belgium’s KU Leuven University are this week expected to detail how wireless key fobs for McLaren and other high-end car companies can be hacked ✔ This method can only be used once, meaning that cars cannot be unlocked or started again ✔ The new vulnerability is understood to wirelessly grab and decode..

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Electric-powered 'air taxis' could be picking up people in four years

9/10/2018, 9:23:45 AM
The 'flying taxi' service could offer short-haul, inter-city flights carrying multiple passengers using piloted aircraft, according to the founder of Bristol-based flying company Vertical Aerospace. ✔ It has a range of 93 miles (150km) with a top speed of 186mph (300kmh), with a more powerful model set to carry people 500 miles (800 km), which means it could easily take passengers to Paris and back The firm conducted a test flight of an unmanned, single-passenger vertical take-off prototype at an airport in Gloucestershire in June In a later stage, the company will seek to extend the aircraft's range, introduce elements of autonomous flight and expand the number of chartered routes it can serve His first brush with hardware and physical product engineering came when he was a short-term owner of flagging Formula 1 team Manor Racing

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'Anything pro-union is shut down really fast': Tesla workers speak out

9/10/2018, 10:12:00 AM
Elon Musk has said he is ‘neutral’ about a union but former employees blame their firing on their efforts to organize while current workers say a ‘culture of fear’ persists ✔ He told me upper management wouldn’t appreciate me wearing it ✔ Mark Vasquez, worked at Tesla from 2014 until he was placed on a medical leave of absence in July 2016 after spending several months on light duty after he permanently injured his back on the job ✔ I’m proud of that fact – it’s changing the world – but it shouldn’t start on the broken backs of workers

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New kit for Porsche 718 Cayman, Boxster | Drive.com.au

9/10/2018, 9:57:57 AM
In an effort to make its entry-level sports cars more attractive, Porsche has added extra kit to its cheapest coupe and convertible.

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Drivers unable to phone for help if they break down on over 5,500 miles of British roads - these are the areas worst affected

9/10/2018, 10:27:43 AM
DRIVERS who break down on more than 5,500 miles of Britain’s roads won’t be able to call for help. Major sections of the UK road network are without any mobile phone coverage, according… ✔ PA:Press Association 2 Just over half of the UK road network has 4G mobile coverage Motorists who rely on their smartphones to access the internet for route planning and to check for congestion could get into difficulty on over 5,000 miles of road with a complete absence of 3G coverage, while an extra 66,619 miles are only covered for 3G by some operators

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Lexus expands its luxury range | Drive.com.au

9/10/2018, 9:57:56 AM
Lexus reveals plans for luxury yacht range.

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Mercedes self-driving van concept swaps bodies to match its cargo

9/10/2018, 11:57:23 AM
The Vision Urbanetic can switch modules depending on whether it's carrying people or goods. ✔ If there's a rush of package deliveries in the morning, the Vision Urbanetic system could run more cargo-oriented vans to ensure that people get their goods on time ✔ In effect, it could make self-driving vehicles realistic in situations where they would sometimes go to waste

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Life after BB-8: Sphero Bolt and electrifying the classroom

9/10/2018, 10:06:31 AM
Hitting the Mothercode in connected learning ✔ When Star Wars: The Force Awakens hit cinemas, it was difficult to avoid the… ahem, force of the marketing blitz surrounding the film ✔ That’s a thing we’re really cognisant about when we’re developing our products and our language ✔ As an example then, you could Scratch program the Sphero Bolt to roll 100 centimetres underneath a sofa, have its light sensor note the drop in brightness, flash a lightbulb icon that you’ve programmed into the color-changing dot matrix screen, and then reverse at high speed back into the light

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Having too much fun on a Mate X electric folding bike

9/10/2018, 11:58:22 AM
Twice as much fun as bikes that cost twice as much ✔ Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge There are two types of people in this world: those who like fat-tire bikes and those who don’t ✔ At 29kg (64 pounds), this bike is heavy , and it can be unwieldy to lift because it doesn’t lock into the folded position

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