Tag: Car
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Goluk T1 Dash Cam Controlled by Smartphone
The need for Dash Cams is rising as more and more insurance companies offer discounts if you have one. Having one of these in your car could be the difference between proving innocence, or, spending a fortune on premiums for a crash you had no fault in. There are many available on the market today…
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Gadget Helpline: Why Get A DashCam?
Gadget Helpline: Reasons To Get A DashCam Why would I want one? In the world today, there are so many reasons to have products like a DashCam, one of the more prominent being that it can affect your insurance in a positive manner some providers even offer discounts of up to 10% or 15%, Even if…
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As Caught On Dashcam..
There are many practical and professional uses for owning a dashcam, however the most interesting recordings are usually those that come from the unexpected moments that get caught when we least expect them. Also See: The Dashcam – What’s it all about? This week alone has seen dashcam footage surfacing which ranges from the tragic…
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Malaga airport car hire tips
Malaga airport car hire, read on: Car Hire at Malaga airport seems cheap. But beware there are a few things you should know as a traveller. We hired a car from AVIS, a VW POLO. The key thing is once you have landed and cleared your bags you descend to the car hire desks. However…
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Self Driving Cars May Cause Motion Sickness
There’s a lot of research into the new self driving car phenomenon coming from universities and manufacturers as the technology improves. For example, a new research project out of the University of Michigan Transport Research Institute, or UMTRI, who have looked into the problem of car sickness for the vehicles. We get car sickness, or…
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Facebook’s Internet Drone Detailed
Facebook’s cool delta wing drone is on the way, it’s designed to bring internet to various parts of the world via lasers. The drone is part of internet.org, an initiative from Facebook to bring the flying internet and other related technologies to the third world and beyond. The Aquila drones themselves are of a delta…
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Virgin Already Working On Electric Cars
Sir Richard Branson is a cool customer. If anything’s going on in the tech game, you can bet he knows about it. Virgin’s charismatic head has already made his mark in space travel, with the new Virgin galactic service that ferries passengers into space, but now it looks like the company is coming down to…
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We test a Universal tablet car seat mount!
If you want your child to watch your iPad or tablet whilst you are driving, and want to attach the iPad to the seat, we recommend the Universal Tablet Headrest Mount from Halfords. Its simple and easy to fit and costs £14.99. We fitted ours literally in 3 minutes, albeit the instructions were poor. It…
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Apple’s Various Vehicle Plans Spotted
A document published by Apple has revealed that the company is looking into a whole host of vehicles and new ideas around said vehicles, which may come out at some point in the future. While it seems like the self driving car market is booming, the details don’t only cover cars, but smaller and less…
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Nostalgia drives Classic Car values
With money earning nothing on deposit and the baby boomers having disposable income, Classic Car values are red hot at the moment. Investors taking the old adage, “they won’t make another one” are piling money into early cars fuelled by nostalgia. The Mini is a classic example. This 1968 Cooper Mark 2 sold for £8100…
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Lutz Pod Is UK’s First Self Driving Car
Self driving vehicles are set for testing in a number of cities in the UK, with the first tests of their kind going on in Milton Keynes, London, Coventry and Bristol. recently we’ve seen pictures of one of the vehicles that will be being tested, the Lutz pod. additionally some of the onboard hardware on…
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Google Initiates Self Driving Car Production
The first rumblings of Google’s foray into self driving vehicles came back in 2013, when the company was spotted doing a few tests on some slightly aged Toyotas, mucking about with sensors and other gadgets and generally making a bit of fun out of it. It wasn’t until the middle part of last year that…