Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Driving and Travel Tips
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10. De-ice your windshield with home-made solutions Dollar Stretcher blog's recipe for DIY de-icer—simply 3 parts vinegar to 1 part water in a spray bottle, applied before a cold and wet night. 9. Get better sound from your iPod 8. Put together a quality emergency car kit 7. Keep a level head, re-think your commuting strategy 6. Don't get pressured into 3,000-mile oil changes 5. Stay awake on long drives 4. Use your fuel efficiently 3. Learn the secrets of parallel parking 2. Get an honest mechanic (or at least avoid rip-offs) 1. Handle a traffic stop, possibly skip a ticket

Questions the wisdom of allowing UI complexity of race cars trickling down to the consumer market. Wonder what fighter planes look like.

Gosh

About this talk Forget about the hybrid auto -- Shai Agassi says it's electric cars or bust if we want to impact emissions. His company, Better Place, has a radical plan to take entire countries oil-free by 2020. About Shai Agassi Shai Agassi wants to put you behind the wheel of an electric car -- but he doesn't want you to sacrifice convenience (or cash) to do it. Full bio and more links

Agassi's Agassi'sAgassi's electric-car http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/shai_agassi_on_electric_cars.html Shai Agassi's bold plan for electric cars | Video on TED.com Agassi's Agassi'sAgassi's electric-car ted.com

What is TrueCar? TrueCar is the fresh voice in new car pricing. We bring truth and transparency to the sales process by aggregating data from many different sources to show car buyers and dealers how much people actually paid for a particular car in their geographic area. We are a data-driven company, processing thousands of real transactions nationwide on a daily basis to generate objective and irrefutable Price Reports. TrueCar is offered online, all free of charge. Our hope is that consumers no longer walk into the dealership only partially informed and fully suspicious. Instead, they show up with our Price Report in hand and know how to strike a fair deal. Dealers offer the same buyers a TrueCar Price Report: car buyers who understand the dealer cost and price structure will know when to stop negotiating and buy with confidence. With TrueCar, buyer and seller both get a better deal. Team Management Scott Painter, CEO Philip Inghelbrecht, President Rob Taylor, COO Chris Lichti,

SWEET, TRANSPARENCY ON CAR PRICING (one of the worst rackets out there)

Figure out what you should really pay for your new car based on what others have paid.

Price of a car -- what is a good deal and what is not.

To summarize: build the smart grid on top of the Internet, and put wireless mesh routers in power meters and cars.

So obvious once heard; everything can be reduced to software eventually.

The intelligent network we need for electricity can also turn cars into nodes. Interoperability is a multiplier.

Nice way to display recent prices on sold cars.

Find the price people are paying for cars.

shopping automotive

What to be wary of when you’re negotiating your next new-car purchase.

Do-it-yourself auto air conditioning recharging requires eye protection, a charging kit, refrigerant, and some practical knowledge.

Compare Parking Rates Daily/Monthly Garages Lots NYC Boston New York

You need to park your car and you're crunched for time. You're not in a position to comparison shop parking rates. Thankfully BestParking has already crunched the numbers for you and can help you find the best rate.

Traffic jams are sometimes caused by drivers' competitive behavior. In certain situations the actions of a single driver can lessen traffic congestion or even erase a traffic jam completely.

Traffic jams are sometimes caused by drivers' competitive behavior. In certain situations the actions of a single driver can lessen traffic congestion or even erase a traffic jam completely.

It’s no secret that American car companies are in trouble these days. With those troubles comes a huge spike in buzz for each respective company. Some would argue, despite the bad news, this increased public focus is an opportunity for auto brands to reposition in the market. Here is a quick look at how the bad news out of Detroit is playing out and who is making strides.

Compare Cheap Car Rentals Make a booking with no passwords and no hidden fees!

Find the cheapest car rental deals in the United States with Vroom's two step search!

Chromeography - http://chromeography.com/

"In praise of the chrome logos and lettering affixed to vintage automobiles and electric appliances — those unsung metal emblems and badges that are overlooked, forgotten, damaged, lost to time or the dump."

In praise of the chrome logos and lettering affixed to vintage automobiles and electric appliances (via Dan Cederholm)

Praising of the chrome logos and lettering affixed to vintage automobiles and electric appliances

How To Decode Your Car's VIN - How To Decode A VIN

a search engine of car

similar to carmony.co.uk

Nuanced, Ambivalent, or Guarded Stickers

Nuanced, Ambivalent, or Guarded Stickers: Products:

It is with sad irony that the company which invented "planned obsolescence" -- the decision to build cars that would fall apart after a few years so that the customer would then have to buy a new one -- has now made itself obsolete

Don't put another $30 billion into the coffers of GM to build cars. Instead, use that money to keep the current workforce -- and most of those who have been laid off -- employed so that they can build the new modes of 21st century transportation. Let them start the conversion work now. Announce that we will have bullet trains criss-crossing this country in the next five years.

Beautiful and eloquent letter from Michael Moore, on the day of GM's "hand over" to its new shareholders: the US government and its taxpayers.

"Announce that we will have bullet trains criss-crossing this country in the next five years. Japan is celebrating the 45th anniversary of its first bullet train this year. Now they have dozens of them. Average speed: 165 mph. Average time a train is late: under 30 seconds. They have had these high speed trains for nearly five decades -- and we don't even have one! The fact that the technology already exists for us to go from New York to L.A. in 17 hours by train, and that we haven't used it, is criminal. Let's hire the unemployed to build the new high speed lines all over the country. Chicago to Detroit in less than two hours. Miami to DC in under 7 hours. Denver to Dallas in five and a half. This can be done and done now."

Michael Moore's suggestions as to what to do with GM seem good to me.

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The goal of the project is to one day shoot the last remaining van on the final frame of photographic film in existence. Then the project will be finished.

Wang about the company name. It's been reported that BYD stands for "Build your dreams,"

Warren Buffett is predicting all cars will be electric by 2030. He has invested substantially in Build Your Dreams. BYD has started with deployment of hybrids in China, and plans to come into the U.S. with the totally electric BYD e6.

BYD

The company itself is frugal. Until recently, executives always flew coach. ... This attention to costs is one reason that BYD has made money consistently even as it has expanded into new businesses. Each of BYD's business units - batteries, mobile-phone components, and autos - was profitable in 2008, albeit on a small scale. Overall, net profits were around $187 million. BYD, which is traded on the Hong Kong exchange, has a market value of about $3.8 billion. That's less than Ford (F, Fortune 500) ($7 billion at the beginning of April), but more than General Motors (GM, Fortune 500) ($1.3 billion). Near the end of our conversation, I ask Wang about the company name. It's been reported that BYD stands for "Build your dreams," but he says he added that as the company motto only later. Others say that as Motorola, Apple, and Berkshire Hathaway have made their way to Shenzhen, the name has taken on yet another meaning: Bring your dollars

A history and analysis of electric car company BYD and how it will compete with bigger carmakers.

edan in China, topping well-known brands like the Volkswagen Jetta and Toyota (TM) Corolla. BYD has also begun selling a plug-in electric car with a backup gasoline engine, a move putting it ahead of GM, Nissan, and Toyota. BYD's plug-in, called the F3DM (for "dual mode"), goes farther on a single charge - 62 miles - than other electric vehicles and sells for about $22,000, less than the plug-in Prius and much-hyped Chevy Volt are expected to cost when they hit the market in late 2010. Put simply, this little-known upstart has accelerated ahead of its much bigger rivals in the race to build an affordable electric car. Today BYD employs 130,000 people in 11 factories, eight in China and one each in India, Hungary, and Romani

What if Steve Jobs ran a car company?

steve jobs in the auto industry

The idea of Steve Jobs running a car company

What if Steve Jobs ran one of the three auto makers? Will the Stevian way continue to shine and would he make the Apple-like revolution in a decade from now again?

4.1.5 Rob Gruhl - How to Buy a New Car - Ignite Seattle 2007-8-8

An article about Vauban, Germany from the NY Times

New York Times article discusses car-free suburb in Vauban, Germany, and other car-reduced developments in other country.

Car-free town in Germany

cars for a grand

Cheap used cars for sale, all $1,000 and under. Find a cheap used car in your local area today

Find an inexpensive auto.

My car is a 1992 Honda Civic CX which I bought new, has an EPA fuel consumption rating of 47 mpg (US) highway / 39 city (5.0/6.0 L/100 km ... 20.0/16.6 km/L ... 56.4/46.8 mpg (Imp.)), and averaged mid 40's when driven "normally".

Boy this guys has spent a lot of time modifying his car to be as slippery as possible.

cost about 400. As much as 90mpg

I'd like to do this to my 1992 Honda Civic

If this is not a hoax, then this is why I am disgusted by every auto mfg on the planet: one person, inspired by a German design from the 1930s, mods an existing car to get twice the fuel efficiency.

One year ago nostalgia :-)

PDF at http://buffalobeast.com/133/BIG3.ad.from.BEAST133.pdf . Just brilliant.

"You wouldn't buy our shitty cars, so we're taking your money anyway."

If you're buying a used car, it would behoove you to consider cars on this list.

shitty cars

With the Marines Beach Landing

fiesta

The ultimate road test...including the British marines!

Top Gear takes the Ford Fiesta through its paces on the track, in a shopping mall, and as part of a Royal Marines beach assault.

The Top Gear boys are deeply offended by a fan letter claiming that they don't review cars properly anymore. To compensate, Jeremy Clarkson takes the new For...

Awe

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I believe that's an Atom being driven by Darth Vader...

AMAZING

This is an update to an old series of jokes about computer languages being like cars. I've added some more modern languages to the list.

Assembly Language: you are the car.

And now, cars instead of religion. I'm beginning to be tired of the lies and misinformation spread about Perl; totally wrong!