Stories about: DRIVe

You Get Paid in Milan for Not Driving

15 Dec 2014, 09:55 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Traffic congestions in big cities is a worrying thing these days. Everybody has a car and usually drives it to work alone, occupying about 5 square meters of road at a time. Multiply this by a hundr...

Australians Fail to Drive on Left Side of the Road, It’s Not What You Think

9 Dec 2014, 09:38 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / You could say you know driving on the left side is wrong when not even people in the regions enforcing it fail to do so. One such place is Australia, where forgetting to keep left is an expanding is...

Trapster Driving Aid App Getting Discontinued in 2015

2 Dec 2014, 13:05 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Some cops could be celebrating with some delicious doughnuts right now as Trapster, one of beter known community based app reporting on speed traps and police units en route, will shut down its serv...

Toyota Rolling Enhanced Parking Aid System in 2015

20 Nov 2014, 11:10 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / About 30 percent of accidents resulting in property damage (and person injury) take place at low speeds when parking or departing due to limited visibility, rushing things or lack of experience. To ...

Toyota Sports 800 Reviewed as Never Before - The Forefather of Fun

18 Nov 2014, 15:48 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Few people know about Toyota’s first sportscar; it was very small, was very light, had a two-cylinder engine, bubbly looks and thanks to it, you can now drive a GT 86. It’s the Toyota Sp...

Safe Messaging and Driving with this Kickstarter Gizmo

17 Nov 2014, 10:30 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Normally, we wouldn’t encourage anyone to text and drive. It’s one of the most distractive ways to use a phone behind the wheel and one of the greatest crash causes. Still, if you can&rs...

Blindfolded Girl Does Slalom Course in a Monster Truck

14 Nov 2014, 14:34 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / What happens when you take a blonde, put her behind the wheel of a monster truck and tell her to do a slalom course... while blindfolded... and being instructed by another girl in the passenger seat...

MTSU Professor To Go Cross Country Driving on Chicken Fat

13 Nov 2014, 16:57 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Few might know that the diesel engine has been first developed to run on vegetable oil and has later been modified to run on the secondary product left from petrol refining. Basically, any fat that ...

Winter Driving Survival Guide - Requirements and Driving Techniques

6 Nov 2014, 17:34 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Brace yourselves, winter is coming, and along with it come icy roads, park spaces covered in snow, slow driving and the possibility to remain stuck in remote areas. Considering all these, you should...

PathFindIR II In-Car Thermal Vision Camera Reveals Everything at Night

3 Oct 2014, 12:53 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Driving in daylight is one thing, but when the night comes, the situation changes totally. The headlamps will allow you to see about 500 feet (152 m) ahead in total darkness and most of the times th...

The Best Racing Video Games that Are Soon to be Released

22 Aug 2014, 16:41 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / As automotive enthusiasts, sometime it gets frustrating not to be able to do everything you’d like in real life with a car (or several of them). Things like racing on the streets with no conce...

EV Explorer App Helps You Find the Right Commuting Car

20 Aug 2014, 11:50 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Now that we know a 100 miles electric range is more than enough for your daily commute, a cheap electric vehicle to use during the work week doesn’t sound that awfully restraining. But still, ...

We Thank Need for Speed For 20 Years of Entertainment

1 Aug 2014, 19:33 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / August has arrived and for most of you this means ice-cold cocktails, joy rides, ice cream and making the most out of the sun’s power before it will ‘dim down’ in autumn. But this ...

Here's the Lexus NX 200t Acceleration Times in All Modes Tested IRL

1 Aug 2014, 13:45 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / We found out a lot about the Lexus NX recently, like the fact its underpinnings are very different from the Toyota RAV4, it has a rear-wheels dedicated electric motor in the AWD hybrid model, it loo...

Toyota 4Runner TRD Pro Gets Detailed Walkaround and Test

24 Jul 2014, 09:43 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / As a father with a large family, there are few cars that won’t upset your other half and also give you a bit of fun. One of these cars is the newly-introduced Toyota 4Runner TRD Pro, a go-anyw...

DRIVECLUB Posts New Trailer

20 Jun 2014, 09:46 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / There are at least 4 very interesting driving games waiting to be launched this year, and among them DRIVECLUB promises to offer exactly what its name suggests - racing opponents and completing diff...

Meet hitchBOT, the World’s First Hitchhiking Robot Made in Canada