Ford Europe has begun real world testing on European roads of the latest car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure communication technologies. Twenty specially-equipped S-Max models have been added to a fleet of 120 vehicles, which will test the innovations over thousands of kilometers around Frankfurt in Germany. The research is part of the four-year Safe Intelligent Mobility...
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If you’ve ever wandered around a large car park desperately trying to remember where you parked your vehicle then BMW has just the thing for you. The My BMW Remote app is now available for Android smartphones and can be downloaded from the Google Play Store. The app allows BMW drivers to carry out...
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Mercedes-Benz has announced plans to install inflatable seat belts in a luxury-class model. The Beltbag was originally mooted in the ESF 2009 Experimental Safety Vehicle, and is aimed at reducing injury to rear seat passengers in the event of a head-on collision. It does this by reducing the strain on the ribcage. It is...
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If washing your car is a chore or minor scratches on your car’s paintwork really annoy you, then a group of Dutch scientists have some good news for you. A team working on this issue at the Eindhoven University of Technology have developed a new coating which they believe will lead to self-cleaning cars,...
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Irish drivers will next week get a peek at what Volkswagen has in store in the electric vehicle market as the Volkswagen Golf Blue-e-Motion makes its Irish debut at the Fully Charged 2012 International Electric Vehicle Summit. Members of the public will get a chance to test drive a Golf Blue-e-Motion and to interact...
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Diversions, road closures and speed limit changes will never be a problem for TomTom users again as the company has now enabled all of its 60 million portable navigation devices to receive free daily map changes via the TomTom Map Share community. The service, which was previously only available on a small number of...
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Ford is working to join the dots on its current advanced driver assistance features to produce a car that can drive itself in slow moving motorway traffic. Traffic Jam Assist, which builds on existing features such as Active Park Assist, Adaptive Cruise Control and Lane Keeping Aid, will also cut the time drivers spend...
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Ford’s inflatable rear seatbelt, which combines an airbag with a conventional seatbelt, will make its European debut in the new Mondeo. The inflatable seatbelt is designed to reduce head, neck and chest injuries for rear-seat passengers. In an accident, the belt rapidly expands across a body area five times greater than that achieved by...
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