Showing posts with label car. Show all posts
Showing posts with label car. Show all posts

Friday, 28 October 2011

VIDEO: Google aims 1million miles in driverless car

Google amazed the world when they announced that their driverless car has traveled 100,000 miles without human intervention and in the process was involved in one fender bender, one which normal human drivers probably cannot avoid either.

Here is a video of Sergei Brin telling us that the next goal is a million miles without human intervention.

I think the robot car is almost here. How long do you think before we can buy driverless cars?


Sunday, 14 August 2011

It felt like a five foot long, five-inch thick snake

Do Boas go with Minis? Maybe Gok Wan can help us here

And so it was.

MOT technician, Wayne Hunt put his hand under thebonnet to fidn the catch release and felt "something that was rather out of place", something soft but muscular to the touch.

When he opened the bonnet, a Boa Constrictor was happily snoozing in the warm, dark bits of the Mini.
It happened at the Bosch Car Service garage in Carringtons of Oxford, UK.

“We immediately called the RSPCA to collect the snake, since it didn’t belong to the customer and we had no idea who owned it," said Wayne.

“The snake was dealt with properly and luckily it had done no damage to the car. The RSPCA told us that it looked thinner than it normally would, which could meant it had been living under the bonnet for a while. In all the years I have worked as a vehicle technician, I’ve never seen anything like it” the Bosch technician added.