Abandoned Tunnel Used for Secret Race Car Testing
Locals in the area of Donegal, Pennsylvania would often scratch their heads at the reverberating sounds of roaring car engines and squealing tires seeming to come from beneath a nearby mountain ...
Tag: cars
3D Printed Car is Strong, Light and Close to Production
The Urbee 2 is strong as steel, half the weight of a conventional vehicle, and can be manufactured in a warehouse full of plastic-spraying 3D printers. The teardrop-shaped 3D-printed car is an ...
Retro Hover Cars: Editing Photos to Float Vintage Rides
One of the most common concepts for the future has long been the wheel-free automobile, even before it was popularized in Back to the Future - but always, these looked almost shockingly familiar ...
Car-Free City: China Builds Dense Metropolis from Scratch
Altering most of today's cities to eliminate cars altogether would be a daunting, if not impossible, proposition - which is why China is starting from scratch. Great City will be built around a ...
Intelligent Interstates: 5 High-Tech ‘Smart Highway’ Systems
With prototypes set to hit the pavement in the Netherlands next year, these interactive interventions take innovation back from a focus on the car and put it right on the road. Examples ...
Ear Shift: The Top 10 Oddly Named Chinese Cars
Finding inspiring names for cars isn't easy, especially when your mother tongue isn't English and, in the case of China, there are over three dozen automakers looking to proudly dub their chariots. ...
Screen Bean Machines: 10 Classic TV and Movie MINIs
The iconic economic “box on wheels” that is the Mini has been the auto de facto face of the United Kingdom for over a half a century. Most recently seen in the Opening Ceremonies of the 2012 ...
Future Shocks: 5 Incredible Concept Cars & Cool Prototypes
From two-and-three-wheeled concept cars to real-life transformers for land, sea and air, the idea of all-terrain vehicle is starting to take on new meaning both on and off the ground. In this ...
Ten More Creative Crosswalks & Zany Zebra Crossings
Where did the pedestrian cross the road? Unless he or she's a jaywalker, at the crosswalk of course! These ten creative crosswalks or, as they're known in Europe, Asia and elsewhere, Zebra ...
Painting Reality: Surprised Motorists Make Sudden Street Art
Ingredients: 500 liters of brightly-colored, eco-friendly, wash-away water-based paint, one elevated location with video camera and a whole mess of (2000) cars just waiting at an intersection to ...
