Meet CaRINA, A Driverless Car Developed In Brazil

CaRINA, A Driverless Car Developed In BrazilYou probably heard about driverless cars before, specially Google’s attempt of this. It has always been a goal to all auto-related inventors, and is nowadays closer to become a reality. Let’s meet CaRINA, a driverless car developed in Brazil which is hitting the roads these days for testing and further development.

Spare Me! The Top 13 Scary Spare Tire Covers

Spare Me! The Top 13 Scary Spare Tire CoversHalloween only comes around for one day each year but that doesn’t stop some folks from driving on the dark side of the street any day, every day… and every night.

Whoosh! The Futuristic, Innovative Chrysler Turbine Car Turns Fifty

Whoosh! The Futuristic, Innovative Chrysler Turbine Car Turns FiftyFifty years ago today, a Chrysler Corporation rep handed over the keys of a brand, spanking new Chrysler Turbine Car to the first of 200 specially selected road testers. By the time the program concluded, an even 50 metallic bronze production Chrysler Turbine Cars had helped enlighten the minds of the American public to the exciting concept of alternative energy vehicles.

Spiders Prompt Recall Of 870,000 Toyota Vehicles

Spiders Prompt Recall Of 870,000 Toyota VehiclesToyota has announced they’re recalling nearly a million 2012 and 2013 model year Avalons, Camrys and Venzas (including hybrids) due to so-called “spider-related problems”. It would seem that owners who ordered WiFi in their cars ended up with web sites of a very different type.

Sleepypod ClickIt Harness Is Rated The Safest Car Harness For Your Dog

Sleepypod ClickIt Utility Harness

Lots of car harnesses for dogs are advertised as ‘tested,’ or ‘crash
tested,’ or ‘safety tested,’ but according to the Center For Pet Safety’s 2013 crash tests, there’s only one that gets a Top Performer rating….

Dandelion Tires Give New Meaning To Flower Power

Russian dandelion

Dandelions have already been more generous to humans than we ingrates
deserve. While we spend our spring-times trying to stamp them out of our yards, many revere the weeds as a source of vitamins and minerals essential to a variety of physiological functions. Now, agricultural engineers are cultivating the dandelion for a new purpose….

Car Window Pet Gate Keeps Your Fresh-Air-Loving Dog Safe

Car Window Pet Gate

How many times have you seen dogs hanging out of the passenger seat or
rear window looking like they will surely try to fly out while their
owners are nonchalantly driving while texting. Too many times, as far as
I’m concerned.  Oh, I know dogs love the feel of the wind on their faces
and all the great smells of places they’ve never been, but is the
danger of losing one’s dog really worth all that canine freedom?  Here’s
a compromise solution that gives your dog a fun car outing and keeps
him safe as well….

 

Werner’s 4-Engined “Red Porsche Killer”: More Motors Make A Meaner Motorbike

Werner's 4-Engined Red Porsche Killer: More Motors Make A Meaner MotorbikeFour engines good, two wheels badass! The eye-popping, jaw-dropping and awe-inspiring Red Porsche Killer drag-racing art bike was created by Rötger Feldmann, the graphic artist and motorcycle maniac behind Germany’s wildly popular “Werner” comics, books and movies. Unlike most art projects of its kind, the Red Porsche Killer is fully functional and actually did race a red Porsche – twice.

Make The Wildest Cars Of All Time: Capture The Emotion Design Competition

Make a wild ride based on one simple word, win prizes!Car Design is setting aside several weeks to test designers to sketch up the coolest new rides imaginable, while only providing a single word each week as inspiration. Sounds like a blast!

“Hovercraft Amazonia”, A New Way Of Roaming The Rainforest Rivers

Hovercraft AmazoniaInvented around the 1950’s, hovercrafts are not exactly a novelty to our eyes. They are useful transportation vehicles due to the fact that they can move both in land and water. However, hovercrafts are not so well-known in Brazil, where a firm of bold entrepeneurs decided to build one from scratch in order to travel in the rivers of Amazonia.