Collision
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Ads from ambulance-chasers make life worth living. Many are so outrageous, so ridiculous, so covered in schmaltz that viewers can't help but smile. But the times they are a-changin': a new app for accident victims could make such cheesy TV spots obsolete. The app is called "Car Accident Sidekick" (the website for which is actually TrafficCollisionAttorneys.com). Not surprisingly, the app is brought you by the "American Lawyer Academy", which appears to be a professional organization for, well, traffic collision attorneys. "Car Accident Sidekick" claims to have many great features, including...
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Google Guru Sings Mercedes Praises (& So Should You)Who has the toughest job on Planet Earth? Some would say the president of the United States. Others would point to the thousands of low-paid migrant workers who keep food on our tables. For folks in the tech world, though, the title might go to Vic Gundotra, Google's chief of social networking. And...
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Volvo Safety Concept Car: 10 Years Of Car Safety Technology
Believe it or not, the 2012 Volvo C30 hatchback is essentially a 10 year old design. Several years before the C30 hit the streets, Volvo revealed a striking concept called the Safety Concept Car (SCC) to the motoring press in 2001, previewing several new technologies that would eventually be seen...
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2013 Ford Flex and Lincoln Vehicles Inherit Inflating Seatbelts
The inflating rear seatbelts first introduced with the 2011 Ford Explorer are finally trickling down to other vehicles. In a release, Ford stated that the 2013 Ford Flex and some yet to be named Lincoln vehicles will be installed with the safety technology by this summer. While the company...
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iOnRoad App Brings Collision-Avoidance To Your Smartphone: Video
If you're in the market for a new vehicle, you might be tempted to go for something with high-tech safety features, like a collision-avoidance system. At the moment, though, most of that technology is tied to luxury rides or comes as pricey add-ons. But if you've got an Android smartphone, a new...
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Canadian Engineer Develops Cheaper Collision Detection Tech
Nobody, save for perhaps stunt drivers, likes to crash. Even if you're lucky enough to escape injury, accidents invariably mean months of insurance nightmare, dozens of phone calls to people you dislike conversing with, considerable expense and almost certainly time off the road. General consensus...
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Have you seen this man? Probably so. In fact, you've probably seen him making this very face on red carpets and in mug shots for the past several years. And what about The Mask? Totally based on this face. Large Marge, too. Or so we've heard. It's a distinctive face is what we're saying. A scary face. A face that would strike fear in the heart of Rupert Murdoch, and he doesn't even have a heart, except for the baby seal hearts he eats for breakfast, which obviously don't count. And now, someone is impersonating it. (The face, not Murdoch's nonexistent heart.) At least, we think someone's...
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Ford announces new radar-based collision-avoidance system
Driver-assist technology is developing more quickly than ever, and it's no longer the domain of extremely high-end executive sedans or one-off showpieces. As these driver aids trickle down to mainstream production cars, however, the spectre of automated cars and reduced driver responsibility begins...
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Nissan collision avoidance system takes inspiration from bees
Bees are not the first animal most people would think of when looking to the biological world for automotive inspiration, but the engineers at Nissan are uncommon people. Those engineers are developing a collision avoidance system based around the same principles that bees use to navigate their...
Ralph Hanson
