Don’t GPS and drive, y’all: As helpful as they can be, smartphones are actually one of the leading causes of distracted driving accidents. Built-in routing tools and smartphone apps alike can steal your attention away from the road, whether you’…
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Spotify launches Car View on Android to make using its app less dangerous behind the wheel
Spotify is making it easier to use its streaming app in the car, when the phone is connected to the vehicle over Bluetooth. The company today confirmed the launch of a new feature called “Car View,” which is a simplified version of the service’s Now Playing screen that includes larger fonts, bigger buttons, and no […]
View More Spotify launches Car View on Android to make using its app less dangerous behind the wheelDaimler’s semi-autonomous trucks may be hitting a road near you
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Daimler is developing trucks that can steer, accelerate, and decelerate on their own — and much more. Read more…
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Lyft reveals surprising results from its ’Ditch Your Car Challenge’
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For 30 days in October and November, 2,000 people across 35 North American cities vowed to get around without driving their own vehicle — with a little help from ride-hailing app Lyft.
The Ditch Your Car Challenge offered personal driving alternatives, paid for by Lyft. More than 130,000 offered to participate in the challenge. In the end, only 1.5 percent of those were chosen to receive these credits for a month of commuting:
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$300 Lyft Shared ride credit or Lyft all-access plan (if Shared rides weren’t available in your city)
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$45 bike-share credit
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$100 Zipcar car-sharing credit
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This ingenious gadget is designed to wake you up if you start to doze while driving — and it’s on sale
Drunk driving is universally scorned, as it should be, but did you know that driving after a bad night’s sleep can be just as dangerous? It’s true: According to a National Safety Council study on fatigue, “Losing even two hours of sleep is simil…
View More This ingenious gadget is designed to wake you up if you start to doze while driving — and it’s on saleWaze signs data-sharing deal with AI-based traffic management startup Waycare
Waze has struck a data-sharing agreement with Waycare, an artificial intelligence-based traffic management startup, the two companies announced today. The deal will allow them to combine anonymized navigation information crowdsourced from the 100 million drivers who use Waze with Waycare’s proprietary traffic analytics. The collaboration is now active in Nevada, Florida, California and Nevada, with […]
View More Waze signs data-sharing deal with AI-based traffic management startup Waycare6 times navigation app Waze drove itself right into a scandal
When it first debuted in 2007, navigation app Waze had a simple mission: make commuting easier by developing a community of drivers who are able to inform each other about road conditions.
The idea is that, like Google Maps, Waze will give you direct…
This gadget will bring Amazon’s Alexa into your car
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At home, you generally have your hands free. In the car, not so much. But while Alexa has clearly made your casa her casa (she’s even laughing at you these days), she’s nowhere to be found when you need her on the road.
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Muse is a crafty little gadget looking to change that — and *gasp* it’s not even made by Amazon. Speak Music is the clever company behind this convenient come up, which has Indiegogo to thank after securing more than $100k in funding. Whether you need to tell a friend you’re running late or skip that one annoying song on your playlist, Muse can help you do this without obtaining a texting-and-driving ticket, as seen here. Read more…
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View More This gadget will bring Amazon’s Alexa into your carNuro’s self-driving vehicle is a grocery-getter and errand-runner
Not every self-driving car has to be able to move passengers from point A to point B. Take, for example, Nuro: The startup just revealed their unique autonomous vehicle platform, which is more of a mobile small logistics platform than a self-driving car.
The company, which has been working away in stealth mode in Mountain View until now, has raised a $92 million Series A round led by Banyan… Read More
Watch this BMW refuel 5 times during an 8-hour drift
BMW USA drivers managed to break two Guinness World Records during an eight-hour drift. Two all-new M5s were used to perform the stunt for which BMW along with Deetroit Speed, Inc decided to develop a mid-drift refueling system so that the car would …
View More Watch this BMW refuel 5 times during an 8-hour driftCrunch Report | A Telegram ICO Would Be Huge
Telegram is planning a multi-billion-dollar ICO, Uber taps Nvidia for self-driving chips and DraftKings launches single-game NFL fantasy contests. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
View More Crunch Report | A Telegram ICO Would Be HugeCarWink is a Kickstarter project that basically lets you send emojis to other drivers
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CarWink is a solar-powered LED device that sticks right on…