30 days ago
joshua : YouTube - Top Gear - Ford Fiesta Review - possibly the best car review of all time
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2 month ago
gleuschk : Simplified Interstate System.jpg (JPEG Image, 1064x821 pixels) - Very cool retro-looking grid-based visualization of America's freeway system
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deusx : Op-Ed Contributor - Let Detroit Go Bankrupt - NYTimes.com - "IF General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye. It won’t go overnight, but its demise will be virtually guaranteed. Without that bailout,
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deusx : Speed Camera Pranks: The Muppet's Animal Caught Speeding, Driving Police Crazy - "Yes, the photo above is real: It is Animal—from The Muppets—driving a British Audi while speeding through a German road. The famous pink drummer is driving the police there absolutely crazy, because he keeps doing it again and again. Or better s
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5 month ago
nelson : Car detailing - 55 hours cleaning up a sports car, obsessively documented
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6 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Living In A Garbage Truck - Living In A Garbage Truck: that's pretty damned impressive...
deusx : Living In A Garbage Truck - angelia's Car Blog
mmb : Living In A Garbage Truck - angelia’s Car Blog - Living In A Garbage Truck - angelia’s Car Blog via deusx’s favorites on del.icio.us [via]
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7 month ago
nelson : Car hits a group of cyclists - It's horrifying, but the picture is amazing
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9 month ago
nelson : Dash GPS - GPS that shares your speed data with other users, building a bottom up understanding of traffic flow
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10 month ago
deusx : Dude Drives Wrecked Car - DoubleViking Video (s) - "It's equal parts awesome and illegal."
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11 month ago
gleuschk : Damn Interesting » The Ethyl-Poisoned Earth - this is my new very-favorite blog. an astounding story, still relevant, about power and corruption and lack of foresight.
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13 month ago
WillPate : Traffic jam mystery solved by mathematicians
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13 month ago
gleuschk : Paul Brand: A few simple steps to store a car for winter - need to remember to start up the Honda every few weeks
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13 month ago
WillPate : Volvo Safety Tech Removes the Weakest Link You
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14 month ago
adamrg : The Pedal-to-the-Metal, Totally Illegal, Cross-Country Sprint for Glory
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15 month ago
deusx : 1979 Buick Riviera gets pimped, Atari-style - Engadget - "Featuring what appears to be a Sears Atari 2600 clone and a 13-inch CRT with a custom fake-ice RIVIERA logo, there's no wonder Kevin, the owner, says this whip is his "absolute pride and joy.""
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15 month ago
deusx : WDCDeloreans - Jalopnik - Deloreans at the 2007 Woodward Dream Cruise. (funny, I've bought beer at that party store before)
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17 month ago
Andy Baio : Google Maps Streetview, circa 1907 - see also: MIT's Aspen Moviemap from 1979
43folders : Photo-Auto Maps (1907) - with arrows pointing you to the correct path leading toward your destination
nelson : 1907 Street View maps - Early road atlases included photographs
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18 month ago
43folders : Parents' stress and sleep deprivation can be a danger to children - "Always place something in the backseat...that requires you to open the back door every time you park." Life-saving life hacks. (scroll down)
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20 month ago
jonhicks : Tesla Motors - A roadster that can do 0-60 in 4 seconds, AND be 100% electric powered? Bring it on.
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jimray : How to avoid getting ripped off when you buy a car - My daily reason to love the internet
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22 month ago
cameron : Forum readers catch a hit and run on photo - One user of a local car forum posted about a recent hit and run while another happened to have just bought a fancy new camera and was on the scene. Amazing.
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23 month ago
Matthew M. Boedicker : gas mileage hackers - (via boingboing) [via]
philgyford : This Guy Can Get 59 MPG in a Plain Old Accord. Beat That, Punk - People who compete to get the best mileage out of cars by turning engines off, not braking, and more complicated techniques. (via Kottke)
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23 month ago
cameron : Mercedes to release a 'terrorist-proof limo' - It's armor protects against "military-standard small-arms projectiles and provides protection against fragments from hand grenades and other explosive devices."
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26 month ago
jkottke : Physiologically, humans aren't meant to drive fast in cars because our flicker fusion frequency isn't high enough - Physiologically, humans aren't meant to drive fast in cars because our flicker fusion frequency isn't high enough. Compared to birds (> 100 Hz versus 60 Hz for humans), at high speeds, everything kinda blurs together for us, leaving us ill-equipped to
deusx : The Flicker Fusion Factor - "When we get behind the wheel of a car, we may think we gain a bird's power of flight, but actually we are poor, pathetic imitators of birds."
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