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#65 of 103 Techies Aim To "Reinvent the Automobile" at Detroit Conference by rockylee

Oct 19, 2006 (12:45 pm)

DETROIT — Talking cars are likely to hit the road in the near future, according to the engineers showing off hardware at the Convergence 2006 conference and exhibition here this week. This year's theme is "Convergence Reinvents the Automobile."
 
http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/News/articleId=117197
 
Rocky

#66 of 103 Re: Techies Aim To "Reinvent the Automobile" at Detroit Conference [rockylee] by bumpy

Oct 19, 2006 (1:31 pm)

Replying to: rockylee (Oct 19, 2006 12:45 pm)
"Your door... is ajar. Your door... is ajar. Your door... is ajar."

#67 of 103 Re: Techies Aim To "Reinvent the Automobile" at Detroit Conference [bumpy] by rockylee

Oct 19, 2006 (1:37 pm)

Replying to: bumpy (Oct 19, 2006 1:31 pm)
ROTFLMAO !!!! That's pretty funny pal.
 
Rocky

#68 of 103 Re: Techies Aim To "Reinvent the Automobile" at Detroit Conference [bumpy] by imidazol97

Oct 19, 2006 (1:41 pm)

Replying to: bumpy (Oct 19, 2006 1:31 pm)
I'm not sure what the door ajar is in response to but it reminds of me of an experience long ago.
 
I had a loaner while my Buick was at the dealer for one of the rare occasions for service. The Chrysler seemed to have all sorts of things on it that were gadgets that my Buick didn't have.
 
I started the car in the morning and when the audible warning quit the car gave the weather report. "There's a light fog and drizzle in some areas" for example. I wondered how the heck they managed that with all the audibles, like the windshield washer fluid was empty, a brake light was out, the gas cap door is open... there were all kinds of things I was not used to.
 
It turned out the radio had cut it just at the right time for that clip of the weather report, but it sounded like another audible from the car on startup.

#69 of 103 Navi gets tweaked by snapcracklepop

Oct 20, 2006 (7:23 am)

Speaking of gadgetry, do you guys know about Land Rover's new navi feature? The LR3 lets you plot out a course based on points of interests and generates a shape of the course, you can take a tour of the desert southwest in the shape of palm leaf or an eyeglass shaped tour of Miami. You can create your own shapes, I live in DC so I could create a navi course down the National Mall and have it shaped like the Washington Monument....it's another way to use navi.
 
If you haven't heard of it, give it a try....it's definitely something new, I don't know of any other manufacturer doing anything like this.
 
http://www.landroverusa.com/us/en/Vehicles/Extraordinary_Perspectives/extraordin- ary_perspectives.htm
 
click on LR3 and then on the experience

#70 of 103 Auto Parking? by odie6l

Oct 20, 2006 (1:15 pm)

Why oh why would you need AUTO PARKING? The only people I can see this being useful for are the (I know I will get bashed for this) extremely old that can't turn their boats around in an open field.
 
Odie
Odie's Carspace

#71 of 103 Re: Auto Parking? [odie6l] by rockylee

Nov 02, 2006 (7:20 pm)

Replying to: odie6l (Oct 20, 2006 1:15 pm)
The more gadgets the better. I wished I had a car to park itself
 
Rocky

#72 of 103 Ford Reflex by rockylee

Nov 13, 2006 (6:12 pm)

http://www.ford.com/innovation/default.htm?ExpID=Design&ToolID=&TopicID=&cmp=des- igninnov_6_091106
 
Now this is useful Gadgetology at it's finest.
 
Rocky

#73 of 103 Auto backing safety faulted by rockylee

Nov 22, 2006 (1:30 am)

U.S. report calls devices unreliable
 
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061119/BUSINESS01/611190564/10- 14/BUSINESS01
 
Rocky

#74 of 103 My kind of Gadgetology by rockylee

Jan 18, 2007 (6:34 pm)

Cool Car Tech at the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show
 
http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Features/articleId=119227?tid=edmunds.il.ho- - me.photopanel..3.*#15
 
Rocky

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