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Google’s Street View Cars Will Map the Quality of Air in Cities
Google’s Street View Cars Will Map the Quality of Air in Cities

29 Jul 2015, 14:08 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / The Google Street View program has quite a big infrastructure lying at the bottom of it, which is why measuring the quality of air with the cars could work

 
Google Wants You to Turn Their Self-Driving Cars into Public Art
Google Wants You to Turn Their Self-Driving Cars into Public Art

26 Jun 2015, 10:10 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Autonomus cars are not popular, even though most of the carmakers know they are the future. Google is the first to take the step, so they need to make it cool

 
Is This Uber’s Self-Driving Car? First Spotting Says So
Is This Uber’s Self-Driving Car? First Spotting Says So

23 May 2015, 13:25 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / There's a new competition in the automotive industry and its name is "self-driving". Google is the leader so far, but Uber wants a piece of that cake too

 
Google's Self-Driving Car Gets the Green Light, Will Hit Public Roads This Summer
Google's Self-Driving Car Gets the Green Light, Will Hit Public Roads This Summer

15 May 2015, 11:57 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Some of us have hoped the moment will not happen too soon, others have dreamed about it. Either way, Google's self-driving car will hit public roads this summer

 
Google’s Self-Driving Car: 1.7 Million Miles and 11 Minor Accidents in 6 Years
Google’s Self-Driving Car: 1.7 Million Miles and 11 Minor Accidents in 6 Years

12 May 2015, 08:31 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / It's been six years since Google's first autonomous car hit the road. After early rumors leaked, the director of the program released the first conclusions

 
Google's Ray Kurzweil Says Autonomous Cars Will Free Us, Are Linked to Immortality and VR
Google's Ray Kurzweil Says Autonomous Cars Will Free Us, Are Linked to Immortality and VR

22 Apr 2015, 17:58 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Some time this century, our cars will take us to work, 3D printers will make clothes at home and we will live forever. Sounds cool!

 
Google’s Self-Driving Car Gets Even Safer, Adds Pedestrian-Aimed Airbags
Google’s Self-Driving Car Gets Even Safer, Adds Pedestrian-Aimed Airbags

26 Mar 2015, 10:13 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / These airbags would deploy when the car senses that a collision with another vehicle is imminent. The material might be something similar to memory-foam

 
Climb Mount Everest and Visit the Sherpa Community with Goole Street View
Climb Mount Everest and Visit the Sherpa Community with Goole Street View

12 Mar 2015, 11:02 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Google teamed up with Apa Sherpa, a world record holder for reaching the Everest summit 21 times, the climber’s foundation and Nepalese nonprofit Story Cycle

 
Audi Hosting Autonomous Model Car Competition for Students
Audi Hosting Autonomous Model Car Competition for Students

11 Mar 2015, 10:07 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The inaugural Audi Autonomous Driving Cup will be held at a museum in Germany where 10 teams will compete for the 10,000 euro prize

 
Google Steps into Auto Insurance Business, Launches Compare Tool in California
Google Steps into Auto Insurance Business, Launches Compare Tool in California

10 Mar 2015, 18:30 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / The comparing service allows customers to find what’s best for them according to their pockets and their needs, like any other service of the type

 
Google Targets Moon Exploring, Releases Short Documentary
Google Targets Moon Exploring, Releases Short Documentary

29 Jan 2015, 17:15 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / About 40 years have passed since humanity visited the Moon, but Google's new project aims sending unmanned spacecrafts there

 
Google Exec Is One of the 499 LaFerrari Owners, His Wife Drives a McLaren P1
Google Exec Is One of the 499 LaFerrari Owners, His Wife Drives a McLaren P1

7 Jan 2015, 12:10 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Ferrari has been waiting for this moment, that point when extremely rich people around the planet start posting pictures of their beloved brand new hypercar. Sure, some are famous rockstars, but oth...

 
The Oatmeal Gives the Thumbs Up to the Google Self-Driving Car
The Oatmeal Gives the Thumbs Up to the Google Self-Driving Car

24 Dec 2014, 16:35 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / After Matthew Inman received a cool $1 million for the Nikola Tesla Museum from Elon Musk, the guy most of us refer to as The Oatmeal tried something new. As most of his fans know, Inman is the happ...

 
Google Autonomous Car Gets One Step Closer to Production
Google Autonomous Car Gets One Step Closer to Production

23 Dec 2014, 09:41 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Yeah, it’s hard to believe and it fooled us too at first. The Google autonomous car prototype you see below is different from what you saw earlier. We know, the photo is taken in the same spot...

 
Google’s Android Auto to Get Rid of the Smartphone Soon
Google’s Android Auto to Get Rid of the Smartphone Soon

22 Dec 2014, 09:51 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Smartphones are starting to blend in the automotive world as Google and Apple are working to integrate them into the car’s infotainment system. But it seems that will be just one of the option...

 
Dubai Is Now Available on Google Street View, Sheikh Zayed Road Included
Dubai Is Now Available on Google Street View, Sheikh Zayed Road Included

10 Dec 2014, 13:17 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Based on air traffic, as of 2013, Dubai was the 7th most visited city of the world and the fastest growing, increasing by a 10.7% rate, so it was just a matter of time Google Street View would cover...

 
Android Auto Versus Apple CarPlay In Tech Demo, Google Did it Better
Android Auto Versus Apple CarPlay In Tech Demo, Google Did it Better

21 Nov 2014, 10:08 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The infotainment revolution is happening, with Google and Apple having found a neat solution to the old, expensive, low-res infotainment systems we have now on most cars. Things are quite simple, di...

 
First Android Auto Quick Tour by Consumer Reports
First Android Auto Quick Tour by Consumer Reports

19 Nov 2014, 10:14 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The auto industry is orienting towards simplifying infotainment systems and how to do this better than with the help of major operating systems manufacturers like Microsoft, Apple and Google. The ta...

 
Google Maps Street View Car Crashes into a Pole in Serbia
Google Maps Street View Car Crashes into a Pole in Serbia

17 Nov 2014, 10:13 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Next time you are using Google Maps, you should remember that all the little details you browse were put together in a process that takes plenty of work. Sometimes, there can be a glitch in this Mat...

 
Google Bus Takes an Internet Ride Across Bangladesh
Google Bus Takes an Internet Ride Across Bangladesh

13 Nov 2014, 13:17 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Google has just unveiled their latest project held in the emerging South Asian country Bangladesh. Called Google Bus, the company is literally taking to the road to promote the possibilities of conn...