Car News recent articles in category Future Technologies
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Flying car startup wants to have the world's first flying car race in 2019
An Australian startup called Alauda have announced their plan to host the world’s first “flying car” race in the desert in 2019. The company has built its own scaled-down prototype, a racecar-shaped quadcopter called the Alauda Mark 1 Airspeeder. They plan to flight test the flying racecar in 2018 and in order to get the project off the ground (pun...
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California axes self-driving car rule limiting liability for crashes
California axes self-driving car rule limiting liability for crashes Sub-par maintenance is not going to let car manufacturers off the hook and as such, California is happy to tweak the rules just a bit to get more self-driving cars on the road. Even with some of the rules regarding self-driving cars being relaxed, there will still be limits. The state's...
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Toyota will power hydrogen and electric cars by cow dung from 2020
Toyota is to build a renewable power plant in California where it will turn cow manure into water, which, in generate electricity and hydrogen to power homes and cars The cow poo could be the answer to all our pollution problems as companies like Toyota will use it to power hydrogen and electric cars. Manure collected from dairy farms and...
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Trillium aims to shield your high-tech cars against cyber attacks
Trillium aims to shield your high-tech cars against cyber attacks Trillium aims to shield your high-tech car against cyber attacksautomotive cybersecurity firm aims to shield high-tech car against cyber attacks. There is a growing need for automotive cyber security as cars these days are basically computers with wheels do you’ll probably want to make a few changes to protect against...
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Japan believes hydrogen fuel cells will triumph over batteries
Honda and Toyota in Japan are convinced that hydrogen fuel technology is a far superior fuel source and will triumph over batteries. Japan is planning to have the Tokyo Olympics of 2020 running on hydrogen with fleets of hydrogen-fuelled cars whisking athletes from the village to the venues. There may even be a hydrogen-burning Olympic flame to promote one of...
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Honda Claims Its Electric Cars Will Charge in 15 Minutes by 2022
Honda claims that its electric cars will be able to charge in 15 minutes which is a huge step forward in normalizing EVs. Until now in the EV technologies, he biggest downsides of electric car ownership has been the inability to charge quickly. According to Nikkei, the world’s largest manufacturer of internal combustion engines claims it will have electric vehicles...
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Chinese company Geely to launch flying cars after Terrafugia deal
The Chinese Automotive giant Zhejiang Geely Holding Group said last week that it will roll out its first flying car in 2019 in the United States. Geely acquired the Massachusetts-based startup Terrafugia, which is pioneering flying cars. As part of the acquisition, Geely has acquired all the Terrafugias’ operations and assets and has received all the necessary approvals for the...
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Germany's trains of the future will have digital cars with game consoles
Germany's trains of the future will have digital cars with game consoles With all the talk of driverless vehicles, it could certainly prove quite disruptive for the traditional modes of public transport as well, such as trains. Germany's state-owned railway company thinks it has a solution and it sounds like a lot of fun, especially for the gamers amongst us....
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Could driverless cars mean the end of speeding tickets?
Could driverless cars mean the end of speeding tickets? Could driverless cars mean the end of speeding tickets? And if the car is not under the control of the driver/passenger will insurance companies or software developers be liable for road traffic penalties and forced to pay fines. So what happens when the driverless car breaks the law? If...
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China’s tech giants are setting their sights on futuristic car innovation
Futuristic vehicle innovation Chinese tech giants Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent have moved up a gear in the race to build, what they class as smartphones on wheels’. Over the past five years, these huge Chinese corporations have been ramping up their development towards lucrative apps for smartphones but they are now turning their attention to building intelligent and connected vehicles....