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  1. Re:what would make them even safer is by barry99705 · · Score: 1 · on US Wants Cybersecurity Protection Plan For Cars

    Yep, totally secure.... http://www.egmcartech.com/2011/01/19/thieves-can-easily-hack-keyless-entry-push-button-start-systems/ http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2007/08/28/6345961-researchers-say-theyve-hacked-car-door-locks http://www.gminsidenews.com/forums/f19/keeloq-keyless-entry-system-hacked-gm-toyota-etc-62666/

  2. Re:They already make Rav4 EVs by Tekfactory · · Score: 1 · on Tesla Signs $60 Million Contract With Toyota

    Who knows if you'll come back to read this, but.

    Tesla bought the plant for $42 million, and another $15 million in equipment and parts.

    http://www.egmcartech.com/2010/08/25/tesla-motors-to-pay-15-million-for-nummi-equipment-and-parts/

  3. Re:lolwut? by BobZee1 · · Score: 1 · on Malicious Hardware Hacking May Be the Next Frontier

    err. correction: 257mph http://www.egmcartech.com/2010/07/26/video-top-gears-james-may-hits-257-mph-in-bugatti-veyron-16-4-super-sport/

  4. Re:looks like another pinto car by Rei · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Lithium Air Batteries Get Boost From IBM and DOE

    Yeah, really explosive. And those are cobalt-based cells, the kind that everyone worries about but which are not used in most EVs (just Tesla and Tesla-derivatives).

    How much worse of an accident do you get than one in which you end up with an SUV sitting on top of your car and your battery pack fully bashed in?

  5. Custom vehicles and nuclear cars by Lemming+Mark · · Score: 1 · on A Critical Look At Open Licensing For Hardware

    I understand in the UK that there's a specific inspection routine that custom vehicles can go through. This guy made a supermarket ride for children into a road-legal car and had it approved via that process IIRC: http://www.egmcartech.com/2009/05/14/man-builds-worlds-smallest-street-legal-car-gets-70-mpg/

    That's the normal way of getting road legality for an unusual vehicle. There might be a less conventional method: I once read that there is a nuclear-powered car somewhere in the UK which, for some bizarre reason, was granted a royal dispensation to allow it on the roads - thereby bypassing the normal regulations. That probably also makes it a bit awkward to revoke; I imagine if it's true we just rely on the person who's got it being a good sport and keeping it in the garage.

  6. Mercedes-Benz SilverFlow by jamrock · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Robot Composed of "Catoms" Can Assume Any Form

    This sounds like the clarketech* that the Mercedes-Benz SilverFlow concept has been waiting for. At the 2057 Robocar Design Challenge in Los Angeles last year (wherein car manufacturers touted concepts for cars 50 years from now), Mercedes showed off "SilverFlow", a shape-changing car that melts into a pool of liquid metal when not in use. The vehicle's shape would be tailored for different usage scenarios through programming, and the entire concept revolves around micro-particles that combine in varied ways. But is this really feasible though? I suppose that it's within the realms of possibility, but are there any serious deal-breakers that could derail this vision? Any thoughts?

    *From Arthur C. Clarke's well-known aphorism about sufficiently advanced technology being indistinguishable from magic, "clarketech" refers to tech so advanced that we don't know as yet how it would work. Love the term.