Last minute geek

1. Scoot is adding battery-swapping cars to its San Francisco lineup
(English/engadget)

If you spend any time in San Francisco you'll see them. The red electric scooters with a white lighting bolt and the word "Scoot" plastered on the side of the cargo box. Scoot, the company ...

2. Fighting Bots, Pinball, Emulators, and More at Maker Faire Denver
(English/makezine)

Maker Faire Denver has it all, whether you're in the mood to watch robot cars fight, drones race, or kids create their own chainmail. Read more on MAKE The post Fighting Bots, Pinball, Emulators, and ...

3. UK government could force petrol stations to install EV chargers
(English/engadget)

The UK's network of motorway services and petrol stations will be required to install chargers for electric cars, under plans announced by Transport Minister John Hayes. The Automated and Electric ...

4. IT resellers, this is your future: Shifting driverless cars within 5 years
(English/TheRegister)

Yeah or maybe not Canalys Channels Forum  Tech resellers who are on occasion – and perhaps cruelly – compared to sheepskin jacket-wearing secondhand car dealers, might just be getting into game after all, ...

5. Night Vision for Self-Driving Cars
(English/ieespectrum)

Israeli startup Adasky says their infrared camera will help cars navigate gnarly conditions Read all  ...

6. Look, look, we've done a driverless AI hype paper thingy, says Mobileye
(English/TheRegister)

Mathematical model solves the crash blame question, apparently Intel-owned Mobileye says it has cooked up a safety framework for fully autonomous, human-independent, driverless cars – and desperately wants ...

7. 'GTA Online' transforming vehicle races start today
(English/engadget)

There are plenty of new racing games to choose from this fall (Forza 7, GT Sport, Project Cars 2 and Need for Speed: Payback), but none of them will let you change vehicles mid-race. Nor are they anywhere ...

8. GM aims to be the first to test self-driving cars in New York City
(English/engadget)

It looks like New York City will be hosting its first test of fully autonomous vehicles very soon and surprisingly, they're not from Waymo or Uber. Instead, General Motors and Cruise Automation have ...

9. Audi made an escape room to promote its E-Tron cars
(English/engadget)

The rise of the "escape room" has been incredible. Teams of people all over the world are now regularly battling zombies, embarking on real-life Legend of Zelda adventures or playing armchair ...

10. Waymo is training cops how to respond to autonomous car crashes
(English/engadget)

There are a lot of hurdles to clear before autonomous cars can fully take over the roadways. Chief among them is training the police on how to react and handle a self-driving car error, as spotted by Recode. ...

11. Wireless Remote Control Car
(English/instructables)

Remote control cars have always been popular and fascinating toys for kids. I had an old broken remote control car lying around, so i decided to use its receiver kit. In this Instructable, i decided to ...

12. Defect in Subaru keyless entry system makes it trivial to sniff and clone your car-keys
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... possession of a cryptographic secret, shared by both the keys and the cars' firmware. (more…) Read all  ...

13. How landscape architects fight the last war while designing against mass shootings
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

Landscape architects are increasingly in the business of designing spaces that are resistant to mass shootings, terrorists driving their cars into crowds and other forms of murderous, technology-assisted ...

14. TSA will let you travel with a motorcycle airbag
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... How much more? Research is out but airbag tech has been commonplace in motorcycle racing, and our cars, for years. It appears to greatly reduce injury in racing, and likely will prove out to do the same ...

15. Waymo releases its first safety report, which offers more detail on its technology and aims to convince people that self-driving vehicles are "safer by design" (Chris Davies/SlashGear)
(English/Techmeme)

... —  Waymo, the Alphabet business working on autonomous cars, has released its first safety report, a recap of 3.5m miles of on-road activity. Read all  ...

16. CarGurus, an online market for car sales, jumped as much as 84% on its first day of trading, giving the firm a market cap of ~$3B after raising $150M in its IPO (Roopal Verma/Reuters)
(English/Techmeme)

... (Reuters) - Shares of CarGurus Inc (CARG.O), an online marketplace connecting buyers and sellers of new and used cars … Read all  ...

17. New UK consortium to develop autonomous cars for London
(English/Neowin)

The consortium will include Ford, be funded by the UK government, and be led by London taxi firm Addison Lee. It will be exploring automated ride-hailing and sharing vehicles for Londoners. Read more... ...

18. Paris wants all gas-powered cars out of the city by 2030
(English/engadget)

The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, has already announced plans to remove all diesel cars from the roads of the French capital by 2024. Now she's adding gasoline-powered vehicles to her list. Today, ...

19. The world's scariest Halloween lawn decor: 'A Very Very Trump Halloween'
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... horse skeleton is a nice touch on that one.) Scary Steven Mnuchin... The eerily-silent Sarah Huckabee Sanders... Brainless Ben Carson... Melancholy Melania Trump... The resemblances are spooky, ...

20. California DMV tweaks rules to allow completely driverless cars
(English/engadget)

California is already more accommodating to self-driving cars than many parts of the country, but it's taking that friendliness one step further today. The state DMV has modified its regulations to ...

21. Columbia researchers might have the key to wireless VR
(English/engadget)

The millimeter wave frequency has the potential to do a lot. So far it's helping power 5G cell networks, but research from Columbia Engineering could expand that to self-driving cars and virtual reality ...

22. Nvidia announces Drive PX Pegasus AI system for self-driving cars
(English/Betanews)

Smart self-driving cars could become a reality sooner than predicted after Nvidia revealed its most powerful AI hardware platform to date. At the company’s GTC Europe conference in Munich this week, Nvidia ...

23. Super Cali's futuristic robo-cars in focus – even though watchdogs say they're something quite atrocious
(English/TheRegister)

DMV paves way for human-free fully autonomous vehicles Totally autonomous cars with no drivers, no passengers nor steering wheels are set to roll out onto California's streets under rules proposed by the ...

24. Nvidia's Linux-enabled Drive PX Pegasus car computer offers Level 5 autonomy
(English/Linuxtoday)

LinuxGizmos: Nvidia unveiled a "Drive PX Pegasus" computer for Level 5 self-driving cars that runs Linux Read all  ...