In the UK, a pensioner with just a mobility scooter and a navigation app turned a quiet Monday evening into a scene from a comedy movie. Out in East London, this unnamed guy took to the A13—a hectic 70mph highway linking Dagenham to Essex—following the digital trail laid out by his go-to Google Maps.
What you’re looking at is the world’s first and only Dragonfly three wheeler vehicle concept, built by a team led by mechanical engineer Greg Kunsch. This current prototype is powered by a 2.4-liter DOHC engine making 200 hp, but a fully electric model is in the works.
An Oscar Mayer Wienermobile crashed on a Chicago highway after hitting a car Monday morning along Interstate 294. Its driver reportedly lost control and over-corrected, causing it to flip onto its side near the Chicago suburb of Oak Brook, Illinois.
John Ortlieb has one of the rarest vehicles ever and it’s not a supercar. That’s right, he owns two of twenty-one Boaterhomes that were ever manufactured. One of them is near factory showroom new, while the second is a project car under construction.
Photo credit: Marc Teyssier
Researcher Marc Teyssier collaborated with Marion Koelle, Paul Strohmeier, Bruno Fruchard and Jürgen Steimle at the Saarland University Human-Computer Interaction Lab to develop Eyecam, a design prototype that explores the potential future of sensing devices. This is not a standard webcam that only looks like a human eye, but one that actually blinks, looks around and even observes you.