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New automobile camera shows what you’re backing into

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

Roadmaster USA Corp has begun shipping a Wireless Backup Camera.
The $149 Roadmaster VR3 $149features a 2.5-inch color LCD screen that mounts on the car’s dashboard or visor, while the lens fits along the bottom of the rear license-plate, providing safe rear-viewing while backing up. It can be on at all times or activated […]

Robot car drives to top of Pike’s Peak

Friday, July 7th, 2006

Spirit, Axion Racing’s autonomous Jeep Grand Cherokee, is the first unmanned vehicle to drive itself to the summit of Pikes Peak. The vehicle drove without human interaction or remote control. This is the first time an autonomous vehicle has completed the same course used annually by human drivers participating in the Pikes Peak Hill Climb […]

Auto tech device moves mirrors to show blind spot

Saturday, June 24th, 2006

Everyone’s nearly crashed into a car while changing lanes because the vehice was in their blind spot.
Now there’s a device called LaneFX, billed as the World’s First Active Blind Spot Exposure System. You’d have thought the auto companies would have come up with this. Instead, it’s an Ann Arbor company called Driveaware that did so. […]