Tag: car
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Porsche Crowned Most Loved Car Brand
Global searches for ‘luxury car brands’ exceed over 88,000 per month, showing that luxury car brands are always on people’s minds. With summer coming and people eager to drive long-distance, which of these car brands are the most popular? With this in mind, the experts at Click4Reg Private Plates took to Pinterest to find out…
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Intel buys Mobileye in a $15.3billion deal
Intel, the technology company best known for their processors, have acquired Mobileye in a $15.3 billion deal. Mobileye are leaders when it comes to computer vision for autonomous driving, so the purchase will advance Intel’s strides into driving cars. Mobileye are proud developers of software called the Advanced Driver Assist Systems (ADAS) which aims to make roads safer, ease traffic…
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Airbus unveils Pop.Up passenger drone in Geneva
Airliner manufacturer Airbus has launched its concept for a passenger drone capable of morphing into a car at the Geneva Motor Show. The conceptual model, titled the Pop.Up, envisions a transport option made up of a 2.5m x 1.4m x 1.5m pod. The capsule can both attach to a chassis on roads to transform into a two-seater…
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Will there be an Apple car?
It seems that Apple is dabbling in just about every market these days and the next on their list is the automotive industry. Word on the street (pun intended) is that Apple is building a car. The company is doing its best to keep the project under wraps but considering it’s size it’s going to…
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Sticky car hoods – Google’s new safety feature
Google has a tendency to be at the forefront of technological advances in almost any field, and with the release of their self-driving cars, they’ve made their debut into the automobile industry. The technology is already being retrofitted into other cars to give them a self driving ability, but Google hopes to reveal their own…
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Nissan recalls millions of cars
Japanese automotive company Nissan is recalling more than 3.8 million vehicles due to a fault in the passenger side airbag. The global recall comes after the automotive company admitted that it knew of numerous collisions where the airbags did not function properly. The widespread fault is in the sensor that registers whether the seat is occupied…
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Tesla store to open in Sydney’s Martin place
Tesla is building its first standalone store in Australia and it will be right in the heart of Sydney’s CBD at 20 Martin Place. This will become the flagship store and add to the service centre and stores in St Leonards NSW and Richmond Victoria. It will be a two-level showroom set to open in the…
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Female ride-sharing service
Ride-sharing has become all the rage these days but it’s no surprise some women are hesitant to use this form of transportation after hearing about bad experiences female passengers have had with drivers. Therefore one company has created an Uber-style car service with just female drivers for women and children passengers only. Chariot For Women was…
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Tesla’s Model 3
Tesla’s Model 3 has arrived! Future customers waited in huge numbers at showrooms and behind computer screens to place $1,000 deposits on the new electric car. Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced on Twitter that 180,000 orders had been made in just 24 hours. The company currently has the Model S and Model X retailing for…
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Importing cars from overseas in 2018
The Australian car industry is set to flip upside down in 2018 after an announcement from Minister of Major Projects, Paul Fletcher. Not only will local car manufacturing be put to an end but also consumers will now be able to import a car or motorbike from overseas. Some conditions apply as the vehicle must…