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Sunday 7: Car related hang-outs | Drive.com.au

10/13/2018, 8:47:30 PM
Cool places for car people to kick-it. ✔ Sodi karts imported from France are fitted with nine horse power Honda engines and take to a unique track surface to allow you to drift around the track sideways ✔ Let's start a personal and meaningful conversation! Leave a comment (Get advice from an expert)



Alpine lands in Oz, tackles Porsche | Drive.com.au

10/13/2018, 8:47:32 PM
French sports car maker Alpine says its new A110 coupe will lure buyers away from German rival Porsche, putting the car on a pedestal compared to other premium brands ✔ But the equation isn’t as simple as poaching Porsche enthusiasts, with buyers more likely to come from driving cars like the BMW M2 ✔ Are we going to get Porsche enthusiast across, maybe not, he told Drive ✔ Let's start a personal and meaningful conversation! Leave a comment (Get advice from an expert)



Nissan's neatly upgraded Navara puts its supersize rivals to shame

10/13/2018, 9:48:35 PM
SIZE doesn’t matter, or so my wife tells me, usually with a sympathetic smile. I’m sure — sorry, I hope — that’s true. But in certain areas of life, there is an undeniable appeal to having the bigg… ✔ SIZE doesn’t matter, or so my wife tells me, usually with a sympathetic smile ✔ Even so, Nissan’s move is a clever one it’s big enough for bragging rights but not so big it will put people off ✔ But the headline figure is a claimed MPG of up to 68.9 ✔ If anything, the surprise is that it hasn’t come sooner



Tesla needs over $1 billion in cash over the next 6 months, and Wall Street is going nuts figuring out where it's going to come from

10/14/2018, 2:24:07 AM
Tesla has over a billion in debt payments to make through March of 2019, but it also has yet to turn a profit making its new Model 3 cars. This has bulls and bears all over Wall Street wondering — where's the cash going to come from? ✔ From their report: Our thesis is also predicated on TSLA having enough levers to get over the debt maturity hump including cash flow from ZEV credit (estimate potential for $500-$600 million in 2H 18) & Model 3 sales, access to $1.2B unused debt commitment, potential for credit amendments, et al



W Series is a new, women-only race series

10/13/2018, 1:04:11 PM
Say a big hello to W Series, an all-new single-seater race series just for women. Whether the W stands for ‘women’ or ‘woke’ we’re not quite sure, but it’s designed to lead us to a point where there’s a far greater gender balance in motorsport.“At the heart of W Series’s DNA is the firm belief that women can compete equally with men in motorsport,” says the official bumf. “However, an all-female series is essential in order to force greater female participation.”



NHTSA Proposes Self-Dimming Matrix Headlights for U.S. | Digital Trends

10/13/2018, 5:06:26 PM
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) seeks comments on a proposal to allow adaptive LED headlights on vehicles sold in the U.S. Legal in Europe already, self-dimming glare-free adaptive LEDs automatically lower headlight intensity when they detect pedestrians or oncoming vehicles. ✔ As seen in the image below from Osram, the headlights would illuminate the lower body of pedestrians and vehicles, but would the LED that would shine in people’s eyes would shut down ✔ All comments need to be submitted in time for the NHTSA to receive them by December 11, 2018



Tesla is too big to fail —but not for the reason you might think

10/13/2018, 1:22:32 PM
Tesla survived the summer and Musk settled with the SEC just in time to witness the UN issue its most dire warnings about global warming to date. If we have only until 2040 to drastically reduce the warming trend, we can't afford to lose Tesla and the potentially millions of electric-vehicles it cou ✔ Of course, we have to start now, and we can't afford to lose Tesla's footprint ✔ The only other successful EVs on sale at the moment are the Chevy Bolt and the Nissan Leaf, and while they're selling OK, they aren't matching Tesla's impact ✔ This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of Business Insider



Did the Apple Watch Series 4 live up to its fitness claims?

10/14/2018, 12:50:55 AM
Six-hour activity tracking, a larger screen and automatic workout detection -- we closed a lot of rings to test all the fitness features on the Apple Watch Series 4. ✔ After turning off activity tracking, I had enough power to get me back to the car and drive an hour back home before it went into Power Reserve ✔ Be sure to check out our review (in progress right now) before making a final decision ✔ Apple Watch's new EKG feature: Taking heart monitoring to the next level



What does Google know about you?

10/13/2018, 4:41:19 PM
How the internet search giant has turned into Big Brother ✔ However, more recently, Google has reportedly stopped scanning user’s emails, although apparently third-party apps still do – for example, an app that integrates with Gmail for the purpose of trip planning ✔ Without using better strategies, such as surfing with a VPN, and using more anonymous services, there is little to no privacy on the internet



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10/13/2018, 6:24:33 PM
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