Last minute geek

1. Waymo's cars have self-driven over 8 million miles on public roads
(English/Neowin)

The self-driving car technology company has today announced that its cars have driven a total of eight million miles on public roads, with an average of 25,000 miles driven per day. Read more... Read ...

2. China pours $1 billion into a 'Hyperloop' for cars
(English/engadget)

Just a day after Hyperloop TT announced a deal in China, another high-speed transport startup has done the same. Arrivo, Brogan BamBrogan's not-quite Hyperloop company, has entered into partnership ...

3. For Sale: The real-life Brady Bunch house
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... ran from September 1969 to March 1974 before moving into reruns in syndication. Ernie Carswell, a Douglas Elliman agent who is listing the property, said the split-level house has been updated and upgraded ...

4. Solar Rollers Racing Expands to Nevada with Tesla Investment
(English/makezine)

Twelve teams will design, build, and race their own solar-powered radio-controlled cars, culminating in a public trophy race in Reno in May 2019. Read more on MAKE The post Solar Rollers Racing Expands ...

5. Zero motorcycle’s modular battery is one pricey upgrade
(English/engadget)

On a spreadsheet, electric motorcycles can be a tough sell. For starters, gas-powered bikes get outstanding mileage. So while hybrids and electric cars can save a driver money in the long run, that ...

6. Tesla to cover the cost of Germany's court-ruled subsidy repayments
(English/engadget)

Some German Tesla owners are facing a surprise €4,000 bill for purchasing their Model S cars, thanks to a confusing ruling by Germany's Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control. ...

7. The Morning After: Fines and flying cars
(English/engadget)

Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. Google got some bad news, but Terrafugia is ready to make the 'flying car' a real thing. It must be Thursday. Read all

8. Modded, post-apocalyptic Hot Wheels cars
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

Back when I was a teen Car Wars player, one of my great pleasures was kit-bashing toy cars together with arms and armor from tank models to make Mad Max-ish battlewagons to use in our autoduels (a friend ...

9. Florida man with a literal monkey on his back arrested for car theft
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

Sometimes people steal cars to pay for that sweet lady H, but this fella allegedly stole a car, possibly to keep the monkey on his back in diapers. (more…) Read all  ...

10. Carlsberg: AI beer taster can now tell the difference between lager and pilsner
(English/TheRegister)

First they came for your cars. Now they're coming for your beers Denmark-based brewing giant Carlsberg has reported good progress in its attempts to turn Microsoft's Azure AI into a robot beer sniffer.… ...

11. Arduino Bluetooth Controlled Robot Car
(English/instructables)

were you always fascinated by RC cars ? Ever wanted to make one yourself ? controlled by your own smartphone ? ---- lets startSo, hey guys, here in this project i have tried to make a Bluetooth controlled ...

12. Help save artist Kal Spelletich's robots and the future of tech-art
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... and activists. All with NO grants, no outside support, no gallery sales and no renting to tech businesses. In 1995 when I moved in the street was dirt and littered with abandoned cars and homeless everywhere, ...

13. Ben Carson wants to raise rents on public housing tenants by 300%+, attacking elderly, people with disabilities and working poor
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

Housing and Urban Affairs Secretary Ben Carson has asked for Congress's approval to hike rents on people living in federally subsidized housing, with a planned increase of more than 300%; he claims the ...

14. Comma.ai's driver assist system is a robot chauffeur for the rest of us
(English/engadget)

... Both of those cars start at around 60 to 7... Read all  ...

15. Using Meshmixer to Make Tinkercad Models Look More Organic
(English/instructables)

Tinkercad is an amazing (and free!) online 3D modelling tool for all ages. By using simple geometric shapes you can create everything for cars to cats. However as my students pointed out, the end result ...

16. Mount a GoPro on a Hot Wheel and record your epic tracks
(English/the-gadgeteer)

NEWS – Did you have Hot Wheels cars as a kid? I had a few of the cars, but I wasn’t lucky enough to have any of the track sets that would let me create my own race track setups. But after seeing the Hot ...

17. The Queen’s Nazi shame, JonBenet’s killer found, and Owen Wilson’s baby mama revealed, in this week’s dubious tabloids
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... her Louis Vuitton tote, and that the stars are just like us: their cars break down, they feed parking meters, they jog, read on the beach, and shop at supermarkets. Who knew? Finally, I can’t resist noting ...

18. Tesla's $7,500 EV tax credit is close to disappearing
(English/engadget)

Tesla might have just hit the long-promised 5,000 per-week mark for Model 3 production, but now it has a different hurdle to cross. Elon Musk's electric vehicle company has sold enough cars to hit ...

19. Start-up Baraja Promises Cheap, Reliable Lidar for Self-Driving Cars
(English/ieespectrum)

The Australian company hopes to sell lidar systems with no moving parts for a few hundred dollars Read all

20. Daimler and Bosch will use NVIDIA to power self-driving taxis
(English/engadget)

Putting self-driving cars on the streets requires a lot of computing power. Most test cars on the road have PC towers in their trunk that take up space, suck up power and produce a lot of heat. With that ...

21. China Has Nearly 3 Times the Number of Internet Users as the US, and the Gap Will Only Widen
(English/CircleID)

... has highlighted the top ten takeaways from the China Internet Report including the following: — "China’s internet giants are doing everything. From streaming video to self-driving cars, the big ...

22. Audi and Huawei team up on connected car technology
(English/engadget)

Audi is no stranger to developing networked, internet-savvy cars. It still believes it needs a boost, however. To that end, it just signed a memorandum of understanding with Huawei that will see the ...

23. Tesla’s proposed Chinese factory would crank out 500,000 cars a year (updated)
(English/engadget)

That didn't take long: Days after Tesla raised prices to offset import tariffs in China, the company has announced it has reached an agreement with the government in Shanghai to produce vehicles in ...

24. Ford is saying goodbye to cars and hello to batteries
(English/engadget)

Ford made waves recently when it announced it would stop producing cars (except for the iconic Mustang) -- in favor of SUVs, trucks and other large vehicles -- for the United States. It wasn't a big ...

25. The UK wants every new home to come with an EV charger
(English/engadget)

The UK has big plans to eliminate sales of new gasoline- and diesel-powered cars by 2040. Electric vehicles (EVs) are the key to making that work, but the required chargers are few and far between. Today, ...