LeTV is developing an electric car dubbed Le Supercar, it was partially revealed to the public for the first time this week. If you live outside of China, you’ve probably never heard of LeTV, which is to China what Netflix is to the rest of the world. It is the #1 streaming service in the country and has started producing its own shows, movies, and sports programs. LeEco has entered into partnership with Aston Martin and Faraday Future for its Supercar LeSee car. LeSee car sports a lar...

Holographic Info Displays With all this information flowing through our cars, data displays will become even more important. We know that Audi and a couple other manufacturers are working on holographic-style head-up displays. (Obi-Wan would be proud.) These color images will be projected in front of the driver and be most useful for things like 3-D maps and driving directions. We can get behind anything that has the ability to keep more eyes on the road. More use of digital gauges, in-dash d...

Intelligent Parking Assist System (IPAS), also known as the Advanced Parking Guidance System (APGS) for Lexus models in the United States, is the first production automatic parking system developed by Toyota Motor Corporation in 1999 initially for the Japanese market hybrid Prius models and Lexus models. The technology assists drivers in parking their vehicle. On vehicles equipped with the IPAS, via an in-dash screen and button controls, the car can steer itself into a parking space with little ...

Automatic braking by the system after sensing an obstacle can be executed in two modes. In collision avoidance, the collision is avoided by the automatic braking, but the driver will not be warned in this type of system. There is a very good chance of wrongly interpreting the signals, especially in the case of radars or lasers. So this is not so effective method of automatic braking. In collision mitigation system,the sensors detect the possibility of collision but will not take immediate action...

Exploride founder Sunil Vallath has build a innovative transparent heads up display (HUD) that is changing informed driving experience. Exploride is a transparent heads up display (HUD) unit for your car that is a standalone device that attaches right to your car's dashboard, and makes it much safer and easier to see your navigation, play music, make calls and texts, or access various data and metrics about your car. Since the device is transparent you can place it right in front of you while...

To fuel a hydrogen car from water, electricity is used to generate hydrogen by electrolysis. The resulting hydrogen is an energy carrier that can power a car by reacting with oxygen from the air to create water, either through burning in a combustion engine or catalyzed to produce electricity in a fuel cell. Instead of being filled up with petrol or diesel, the Mirai (the word is Japanese for ‘future’) is powered by the most common element in the universe — hydrogen. The gas is inserted in...

Verizon Telematics has launched a new telematics vehicle platform that gives drivers detailed information on their car's health and how to get help in the event of an emergency or car trouble. 'Hum' a device that plugs into the car and diagnoses the vehicle health and reports issues. It's a monthly service requires drivers to install a small dongle into their car's onboard diagnostic reader (OBD) port. Almost every car made after 1996 has an OBD.   A Bluetooth-enabled device that s...