Posts Tagged ‘multilingual’

Ford’s new active safety initiative hits the street (signs) [w/VIDEO]

Sunday, July 13th, 2008
Follow the jump for a video demonstrating the Smart IntersectionNewer technology like GPS and Wi-Fi have given us easy access to directions, and soon, in-car Internet. Ford is working with the federal government and other automakers to use that same technology to improve safety on our roadways as w......

How about a smaller nav screen? Magna develops in-mirror display

Friday, June 13th, 2008
While Ford's giving the Fusion an LCD large enough to watch feature films, Magna has joined up with Swiss firm u-blox and Germany's Paragon to develop a navigation system that puts the map display in your rearview mirror. The system is called MirrorPilot, and it does look like a slick way to add fac......

Man moons speed camera, fine won’t be so funny

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
There are times in everyone's life when you have an idea that sounds brilliant when explained in the audience of friends, but in practice is "exposed" as pure idiocy. The passenger of a BMW X5 gave a Cramlington, UK speed camera an uncensored view of his backside in an obvious attempt at humor, but ......

Pittsburgh police refunding speeding fines given by mistake

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
A pair of Pittsburgh Revenue Officers misunderstood the rules surrounding the use of some LIDAR gear loaned to the department for testing and issued a raft of tickets that the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police now has to retract. Apparently LIDAR is only approved for use when teamed with other systems lik......

Six cities busted for shortening yellow light

Monday, April 14th, 2008
Have you ever hit the throttle when a traffic light turns yellow, and then it turns red faster than you thought? We know it's happened to us, and for the most part we thought the problem was our bad timing. In six cities across these United States, missing a yellow light has less to do with bad timi......

Mazda names Laurens Van den Acker new design chief

Thursday, April 6th, 2006
Mazda has a new styling chief. Dutchman Laurens Van den Acker will be putting the rather cumbersome appliqué "General Manager of the Design Division of Mazda Motor Corporation" on his office door, replacing Moray Callum (design head since 2001) who has been appointed to Ford's automotive design dir......