Category: Car stuff
BMW set to show off a smartwatch that will tells cars to park by themselves
With only a few weeks to go until January's Consumer Electronics Show (just pesky Christmas to get through before then) details on some of the big presentations are starting to leak out - including a clever car parking app from BMW. According to The Register it will be debuting a car that can not only…
WATCH: 3D Printed Cars are things that we can make now
Check this out - a company called Local Motors has made a fully functioning 3D printed car. The 100% electric car features regenerative breaking, rear-wheel drive and a battery with a 62 mile range - and 3.5 hour charge time. Amazingly, it only takes four days to print. According to the company, whilst the car…
British driverless car trials announced
If you're on the streets of Greenwich, Bristol, Milton Keynes or Coventry in the new year, don't be surprised if you see a car zip by without someone at the wheel: The cities (and borough) have been announced as the locations for government-mandated driverless car trials, it has been announced. The government will be dishing…
BMW bringing car sharing to London
Watch out ZipCar - BMW is launching its own car sharing app in London. The service, called "DriveNow" has already been a success in a number of German cities and lets you rent a car simply by tapping your driving license on the car and using the DriveNow app. The useful part - unlike ZipCar…
Hands on with Apple’s CarPlay
This afternoon I was lucky enough to see a live demo of Apple's CarPlay at Pioneer's UK offices - read on to hear what I thought. For uninitiated, CarPlay is Apple's first foray into in-car entertainment. Whilst we've been able to connect our phones via bluetooth for taking calls and USB for playing music for…
Nissan put a car inside a Zorb, for some reason
Nissan has a new car to promote! The Nissan Note, which is definitely larger than Samsung's Galaxy Note 4, is apparently big on safety features - so to highlight this the company put the car inside a massive inflatable ball, and rolled it down a hill. The "Zorb" was apparently 18m in circumference. We're just…
Hailocab launches in-cab payments
The taxi wars are hotting up as today Hailocab has announced new features - including the ability to use Hailo to pay for cabs you've hailed on the street. It sounds pretty clever: The way "Pay with Hailo" works is that when hailing a cab from the street as you might do normally (well, if…
Uber adds 6 and 8 seater cars to its fleet in London and Manchester
Controversial taxi upstarts Uber has announced that bigger cars are now available in London and Manchester, in a service called "Uber XL". In London this means you can get a car with up to six seats - and in Manchester, apparently up to 8 seats. We presume the seat difference isn't because Londoners are significantly…
Apple patents car-unlocking idea – has it been reading TechDigest?
Could we soon be unlocking our cars with our phones? A new patent that Apple has sent to the US Patent Office suggests that it is working on tech that will let users simply walk up to their car and have it unlock as if by magic. The patent was spotted by BGR, which also…
Pioneer releases first Apple CarPlay devices
We've known about Apple's in-car plans for months now - but today marks the first day when the products that support "CarPlay" are finally available. Pioneer has released a firmware upgrade to its existing line of in-car systems that adds CarPlay functionality. If you've got a AVIC-F60DAB, AVIC-F960DAB, AVIC-F960BT, AVIC-F860BT or AVH-X8600BT, or pick up…
