#automobile technology

[yeoldenews]

"Jilted."

I've been laughing at this horse's face for a week.

(source: Yours Truly and One Hundred Other Original Drawings by James Montgomery Flagg, 1908.)

[herigo]

[reality-detective]

Incredible 🤔

[walzerjahrhundert]

Fiat

4 HP (also known as the 3 1/2 HP)

1899

[vintage-tech]

The speedometer/odometer of some old car, with the numbers in a pretty excellent Roycroft font.

[aquilae-stims]

Peugeot 205 T16 EVO 2

[odinsblog]

Coming Soon To A Road Near You: “Full Self-Driving”

Video clips from traffic surveillance cameras on the San Francisco Bay Bridge on Thanksgiving morning show a white Tesla reportedly in “Full Self-Driving” mode crossing over to the fast lane and abruptly breaking, resulting in an eight-car pileup.

Just hours before the crash, Tesla CEO Elon Musk had triumphantly announced that Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” capability was available in North America, congratulating Tesla employees on a “major milestone.” By the end of last year, Tesla had rolled out the feature to over 285,000 people in North America, according to the company.

A Tesla Model S vehicle which the driver claimed to be using the 'Self Driving' feature caused an eight-vehicle crash on the San Francisco Bay Bridge on Thanksgiving Day, resulting in the injury of nine people.

The driver reported to the police that he had been using Tesla's "Full Self-Driving" feature prior to the incident.

The crash happened on the same day that Elon Musk announced that the beta-testing of FSD would be expanded from a limited set of Tesla owners to "anyone in North America who requests it."

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has launched an investigation into the incident.

The NHTSA has said that it plans to examine a crash in Ohio also involving a Tesla that may have been using the automated-driving system. The agency has investigated a total of 35 crashes that potentially involved Tesla’s Autopilot highway-driving system. A total of 19 people have died in the crashes.

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[catalindigitalartist]

Futuristic City on the Horizon by Cata2k30 on DeviantArt

[imfluentinfangirlandgay]

Call me old school but "modern" cars are way too overkill.

My car (a used 2010 Honda accord) was totalled and I'm currently renting a 2018 Ford edge from my insurance company while I find a new vehicle.

Now driving this thing feels like driving a damn spaceship or the DeLorean from Back to the Future. There's just so many damn buttons, dials, lights, and just fluff in the dash and center console it's straight up hard to drive. On closer inspection, at least 5 buttons control the light above the driver and passenger's head.

Like what is all this??? Why do we need this many buttons???

And the stick for changing gears? It's that little dial in the second photo. You swivel it to change whether you're in park, reverse, drive, etc. I feel like it's gonna just randomly pop into a different gear while I'm driving!

And why the touch screen?? We don't need a massive ipad embedded in the console! Touch screens are not safe to drive with! I almost got in another accident trying to turn down the AC because I have no tactile feedback in the controls!

By old car was built like this:

Most of those buttons were for the radio. Dials for the AC and how to direct it, and those dials clicked when you moved them so you could tell how far they'd moved. The stick shift clunked when you moved it so you could tell how many times it had been moved and you felt it lock into place. Only a couple buttons on the steering wheel, three for cruise control, three for the audio system. And even this was the most buttons I had to learn ever! I'd argue some of the 'features' in that car were kinda useless and needless to have and just took up space!

Maybe I'm just crotchety and old (I'm 24 lol) but we don't need all this shit in cars! It's straight up distracting and unnecessary. It's a car. It gets you from point A to point B. I don't think you'd ever catch my driving a car any newer than like 2014.

[au-yuukiemcee]

Nevi Kingorn: Fire Bad

~Nevi explains to the others why she doesn't trust modern technology.

[britsyankswheels24]

📆 On August 21, 1897, Ransom Olds founded Olds Motor Works after successfully building his first gas-powered vehicle.

⚙️ In its first year, Olds Motors produced just four vehicles. However, after securing an investment from businessman Samuel Smith, the company began mass-producing automobiles using Olds' innovative automotive assembly line. By 1903, Oldsmobile had become the largest automaker in the U.S., though Ransom Olds departed in 1904 due to disputes over the company’s direction. A few years later, Oldsmobile was acquired by General Motors.

🚘 During its nearly century-long run with GM, Oldsmobile pioneered innovations like the automatic transmission and introduced iconic models such as the Cutlass, Toronado, and 88.

[renaultlove]

Renault Love presents Renault 5 EV prototype in Roland Garros livery.

[stone-cold-groove]

The future is now.

[walzerjahrhundert]

De Dion-Bouton

type L vis-à-vis

1902

[alexxx-malev]

Russia. Myshkin. Museum unique technology. Tank truck Мышкин. Музей уникальной техники. Автоцистерна упрощенная АЦУП-20 (63)