- February 18, 2018
- car safety, New Models
- Posted by Rod Wilson
- Comments Off on Will Self Driving Cars Really Save Lives?
We often hear about how self-driving cars will minimise accidents and save lives, but there is far more to the picture. Potentially, self driving cars can negatively impact your health, and can these impacts number more than the lives saved? We don’t want to paint autonomous driving technology as a negative, but there are both positive and negative health implications to the shift, as with any shift in technology, especially if it adds to ‘convenience’.
We’re going to asses using the perfect scenario, where the car drives 100% of the time and we are relegated to simply a passenger, not needing to interfere when conditions change, traffic, etc. Of course there are inherent challenges in the development of the technology, even some unique to Australia (such as recognising the erratic hopping movements of kangaroos), and we are always at risk of the emus waging another war, and the last one didn’t go so well. Yet, [...]
- February 18, 2018
- Auto News, New Models
- Posted by Rod Wilson
- Comments Off on Genesis G70 – the Birth of a Brand
This it the car that can make or break the Genesis brand. What about the previously released G90 and G80? These relied heavily on the Hyundai Genesis brand, this is the first car to go to market as only Genesis.
Hyundai, poached some heavy hitters to create the flagship model that is going to propel the Genesis brand without the Hyundai branding to prop it up. Albert Biermann, ex-BMW vice-president of engineering, defected to Hyundai after 32 years with BMW. He is known for his work on BMW’s iconic M Division, you can see touches of BMW all over the Genesis G90. You may even see hints of Bentley, Audi and/or Lamborghini from designer Luc Donkerwolke. You’ll also see much of it’s Kia Stinger sibling, including the same engine, and built [...]
- February 9, 2018
- Auto News, New Models
- Posted by Rod Wilson
- Comments Off on There is a Car in Space!
No, that’s not a badly photoshopped image, that’s a Tesla Roadster in Space!
If you have missed the news, Earth’s resident crazy scientist / real-life Tony Stark, and his company SpaceX, conducted their first launch of the world’s most powerful rocket. This rocket didn’t just launch into space, it delivered a Tesla Roadster, with an astronaut dummy passenger, on a one-way trip into space. You may know Elon Musk as the CEO/Founder of a list of world changing innovative companies: PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, SolarCity, Hyperloop, OpenAI, and Neuralink.
What should grab your attention about this story is that the car you can now watch on livestream, soaring through space, is the new Tesla Roadster.