So, I’ve been thinking rather small lately. Especially with that autonomous mixer idea, I mean pathetic, am I right :p. I really want to go back to the reason I wanted to get into AI and multiagent systems which is making autonomous vehicles! So, I’m sure everyone knows that car manufacturers and even Google and Baidu… Continue reading Autonomous Vehicles
Category: Car
Car insurance data
Did you know that auto insurance companies allow you to look up a quote online. All you need is your name, address and date of birth and they will show you your cars! That means you can with a little effort find out what cars people have! Year and Model at least. That could be… Continue reading Car insurance data
fun autonomous vehicle ideas
Would be cool in the future with autonomous cars we will be able to have events where instead of having stations in a building that you walk to you would be in cars. And whenever you switched you would change cars. Bathroom car! Would be too cool to have an autonomous bus/car that just… Continue reading fun autonomous vehicle ideas
Accident Notification System
So, a friend of mine was just in a really bad car collision (not with another car thankfully). He was taken to a hospital and was unconscious and had fractured his skull. It took about 6 hours until his family was notified! It was on the website of our local newspaper like within the hour… Continue reading Accident Notification System
Ethics of Self-driving cars
Well I just read something pretty disturbing that GM for 10 years basically hid the fact that the ignition system was faulty and can cause the car to stall, leaving the passengers with no airbags. (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/engineers-switch-hell-began-gm-recall-woes-071538074–finance.html) Ethically how are selfdriving/autonomous cars and the software in them going to do better? It is already known that… Continue reading Ethics of Self-driving cars
Gas Engines!
They are pretty cool. This post was driven (pun intended) by the need for determining whether a 2003 BMW 325i can be safely driven with regular gas rather than higher octane gas. The compression ratio of the bmw is 9:1. This ratio tells us the volume of the combustion chamber at its largest capacity to… Continue reading Gas Engines!
http://www-math.bgsu.edu/z/carcosts/
A nice tool to plot how much you are spending on maintenance and repair of your car.
Car Maintenance
Since I am going to be buying a car I found a website that seems to have a lot of good info on how to keep your car in good shape DIY style. http://www.torquecars.com/articles/car-servicing.php