Last minute geek

1. Subaru plans to sell only electric cars by the middle of the 2030s
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By Ronan Glon Nipping infinite rumors in the bud, Subaru confirmed the Outback, the Forester, the BRZ, the WRX STI, and every other car it makes will go electric or disappear by the middle of the 2030s. ...

2. Tesla says unintended acceleration claims are 'completely false'
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Tesla just rejected any notion that its cars are prone to unintended acceleration. In a blog post, the EV maker claimed that a petition describing unexpected acceleration was "completely false" ...

3. Elon Musk's Tesla denies claims of unintended acceleration in vehicles
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Petition demands recall of 500,000+ cars over alleged defect Electric car maker Tesla said on Monday there was no unintended acceleration in its vehicles, as petition signature-gatherers demanding a federal ...

4. Excellent review of Jack Vance's "Tales of the Dying Earth"
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... personified; it is unthinking to suggest otherwise.'" There are remnants of ancient civilisations: floating roads and air-cars. There are horrific images galore: a pyramid of screaming flesh half a thousand ...

5. Ten minutes of collapsing water towers
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... of professionals knowing what they're doing as these demolition engineers land the towers between buildings, next to parked cars, etc. So many amazing things here: the crunching, booming sounds of the ...

6. Netflix receives more than 20 Oscar nominations
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After flopping at the Golden Globes, Netflix may have a chance to redeem itself at the Oscars. The 2020 Oscar nominations are in, and Netflix has received more than 20 nods. Read all  ...

7. Tesla cars will soon talk to pedestrians
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If you're a Tesla owner, you might not have to open a window to let your intentions be known to passers-by. Elon Musk has teased plans to let Tesla cars "talk" to pedestrians through external ...

8. Tesla driver who failed to close gullwing door makes a costly mistake
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It seems like Tesla should have some kind of warning system that forces you to press an override icon if you really want to drive with the door open. Model X oopsie from r/IdiotsInCars Image: Reddit video ...

9. OnePlus's Concept One phone offers a cure for the common camera hump
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The OnePlus Concept One is a lot of things, rolled up into one. It's beautiful, clad in the same papaya-hued leather McLaren uses in some of its supercars. It's powerful... though since it's ...

10. Here's 3D models help cars position themselves without seeing the road
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Here, a Google Maps competitor owned by a consortium of German automakers, does more than just help drivers navigate from A to B. It also provides car makers with accurate mapping data and additional detail ...

11. BMW shows off an AR windshield concept for the 2021 iNext
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BMW thinks that we'd like to interact with our cars in a more humane way than we do today, engaging it in conversation. But that's never just using words, but with gestures, body language, and ...

12. AI, machine learning, and other frothy tech subjects remained overhyped in 2019
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... he published a list of "dated predictions" intended to cool down some of the hype about self-driving cars, machine learning, and robotics, hype that he viewed as dangerously gaseous. Every year, Brooks ...

13. Audi EVs will get high-performance RS models in 2021
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If you don't think Audi's electric cars are fast enough, don't fret -- they'll be plenty speedy before long. Audi director Julius Seebach recently told Autocar that the brand will ...

14. As gas tax revenues drop, states like Utah want EVs to pay for road upkeep
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“Gas taxes pay for the upkeep of our roads, but electric cars don't use gasoline,” Jonathan Gitlin writes at Ars Technica. In the United States, the upkeep of our public roads has traditionally been paid ...

15. Tesla's car shipments grew by 50 percent last year
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Tesla ended 2019 on a high note. According to the company, it delivered 367,500 vehicles in 2019. That's more cars than it delivered in the past two years combined, The Verge notes. Read all ...

16. EV maker Nio struggles to grow as Tesla delivers first China-made cars
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Nio has been a darling of China's fledgling EV market for a few years, but it appears to be facing an uncertain future. The company has reported third quarter results that saw it sell 4,799 cars, ...

17. After Math: Driving into a new decade
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For the last After Math of both the year and the decade, we're talking cars and trucks! Read all  ...

18. Tesla will deliver its first Chinese-made Model 3 on December 30th
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After weeks of waiting on approval from the Chinese government, Tesla will deliver the first Model 3 cars made at its Gigafactory 3 plant in Shanghai on December 30th. The 15 customers who are slated to ...

19. Marvel at this autonomous, drifting DeLorean
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... of the Dynamic Design Lab, where mechanical engineer Chris Gerdes and his students steer autonomous cars into challenging driving situations that only the top human drivers can reliably handle. On-board ...

20. Facebook lavora a un sistema operativo
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Facebook vuole affrancarsi da Android, per questo sta lavorando a un sistema operativo proprietario. The post Facebook lavora a un sistema operativo appeared first on Webnews. Read all  ...

21. Ferrari won't produce an EV until after 2025
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Just because Ferrari unveiled its first production plug-in hybrid doesn't mean it's ready to completely embrace electric cars. Company chief Louis Camilleri told reporters that he didn't ...

22. Canada's infrastructure was once cheap and effective to build. Now, it's a titanic transfer from taxpayers to the world's biggest businesses and investors
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... just one example is the impending loss, due to the switch to electric cars and trucks, of the more than $16 billion of gas and diesel tax collected annually by the feds and provinces in Canada. Read the ...

23. Actor Danny Aiello has died at 86
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... Aiello was inundated with movie offers. “Living in New York City gave me training for any role,” he said in a 1997 interview. “I’ve seen people killed, knifed. I’ve got scars on my face. I have emotional ...

24. 'Fast & Furious Crossroads' game promises heists and bro-hugs in May
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The Fast & Furious franchise is about to roar onto PC, PS4 and Xbox One. Bandai Namco and Project Cars developer Slightly Mad Studios are working on Fast & Furious Crossroads, which will ...

25. BMW will finally support Android Auto in July 2020
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BMW's effort to drag its phone integration into the modern era extends beyond ditching Apple CarPlay fees. The automaker is finally introducing Android Auto to its cars as of July 2020, when it'll ...