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Microsoft Mines Brains Of Chinese Taxi Drivers
It’s a well-kept secret, which will give the willies to people who are (at least publicly) worried about intellectual property: Microsoft has one of their best R&D centers in China. Located in the...
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IBM Studies Navigation That Takes You Where The Advertisers Want You
Quick, what’s the point of having a navigation system in your car? To get where you want to be going, right? Well, IBM has another idea: maybe instead of taking you where you want to go, navigation...
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Review: 2014 Mitsubishi Mirage ES
Press Cars: just a Mirage? (all photos courtesy Sajeev Mehta) Mitsubishi’s website claims the Mirage is a “small car for a big life.” Possible: while I haven’t done a TTAC review in over a year, know...
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Vellum Venom Vignette: Less Is More with In Car Entertainment
p0wnage. (photo courtesy: Facebook.com) I’ve been accused of Automotive Hipsterism for bragging about my bare bones Ford truck instead of aspiring to expensive vehicles. It used to be different, back...
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Porsche Classic Unveils GPS Unit For Classic Porsches
Happen to own a classic Porsche? Want a more elegant solution for GPS than a smartphone on your dash? Porsche Classic has the solution. The GPS/radio unit is designed to fit into the DIN-1 slot of...
View ArticleVellum Venom Vignette: Center Gauge Cluster-****?
Seth writes: Hey Sajeev, I’ve always had an aversion to dashboards where the main gauges are in the center of the car (Mini, Yaris, etc.). I can see why an automaker would do it if they sell...
View ArticleGeneral Motors Filed a Patent Application for a Navigation System That Knows...
General Motors this month filed a patent application for a navigation system that can gauge how effective it is in frustrating guiding drivers based on their eye movements and how well those drivers...
View ArticlePiston Slap: Cold Feelings About Depreciated ICE?
Bruce writes: Hi Sajeev, In the comments for “QOTD: Are All These Turbocharged Cars Going to Last?” there was a long discussion on whether dashboard entertainment systems were also a weak point in...
View ArticleThe 18-Year-Old Auto Upgrade: Head-up Display – Garmin HUD+
A windshield head-up display, or HUD, is a beautiful thing. Capable of displaying navigational guidance, vehicle speed, and other information on the lower part of the windshield and in the driver’s...
View ArticleStudy: Using Satellite Navigation Shuts Down Parts of Your Brain
A new study suggests drivers who follow GPS directions regularly do not engage their hippocampus, highly limiting the development of an internal map and making them more dependent on navigation...
View ArticleGM Revamps OnStar: Take a Long Look In the Mirror
When General Motors first deployed OnStar, it was a little more than an emergency services hotline. Drivers in need could tap a blue button on their rearview mirror and immediately get in contact with...
View ArticleApple Rebuilding Maps App, Hopes to Outperform Google
Apple Maps has been a lackluster tool for navigation since its launch. Of course, you probably don’t know this because you’re statistically more likely to back out of the driveway using Google Maps or...
View ArticleVolkswagen GTI-Themed Waze App Steers You Toward a Good Time
Our personal biases frequently lead us to condemn any number of advanced automotive technologies. That’s partly because we’re dinosaurs who fetishize vintage automobiles that, in reality, are actually...
View ArticleSafety Advocates Getting Testy Over Automotive Apps, Consumer Data
Automakers began hunting for new revenue streams about two milliseconds after realizing they could put the internet into vehicles. While the earliest endeavors involved ride-sharing applications and...
View ArticleGoogle Maps Finally Tracking Speed Limits, Speed Traps
The next time you use Google Maps to plan a road trip, you might notice some changes. Maps is now providing live updates on posted speed limits across the United States. Previously, this feature was...
View ArticleJaguar Land Rover’s ‘Hot’ New Idea: Sensory Steering Wheels
With automakers perpetually promoting daft new technologies as a way to appease investors, it’s been a while since we’ve seen a new idea that made us take pause and wonder why nobody else had come up...
View ArticleHackers Do the Dirty to Another Tesla Model 3
It’s Elon Musk’s birthday today, so we’ve decided to wish him well and say congratulations on Tesla Motors convincing the U.S. Commerce Department to waive the 10 percent tariff on imported aluminum so...
View ArticleQOTD: Is There an App for That?
At the risk of sounding like any number of insufferable site fully staffed with dough heads who spend way too much time extolling the virtues of kale (is kale still a thing?), our question today is...
View ArticleQOTD: Trouble Finding Yourself?
Listen, we don’t want to hear about that summer after high school… unless it involved a road trip requiring precise and detailed navigation! That’s right, today we’re talking about finding one’s way...
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