Showing posts with label cars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cars. Show all posts

Monday, May 19, 2008

Top 4 Gadgets for your car

Car freaks doesnt go mad for driving their cars at top speed but also to give their car a head on the latest gadgets available. With a lots and lots of goodies available for the cars, the most popular gadgets that every car freak would like to have are very few. These goodies may sound common to people in foreign countries, but in India these are add ons that one would like to have in their car. If you are from outside India, you could very well forget this post.

4.Power Windows
After all who wishes to work out their biceps inside the car by rolling the window crankers up and down. Motorised windows are now almost standard, in most mainstream production cars with only the cheapest city cars and budget runarounds having wind up windows these days.

3.Parking Sensors
We still remember laughing our heads off at new learners, elderly aunties and the hopeless cases that made use of parking sensors. But using a beeper to reverse without craning the neck a bit was too good a tech to miss. Squeezing into tiny gaps and snaking through curvy bylanes ws never easier. These sensors are not found in Indian cars.

2.Music Player
Who doesn't like to ride with a heart bumping bass on a highway? With the state of the art music players with replete speaker sets, car freaks like to keep entertained on the move.

1.Satellite Navigation
In India, GPS hasn't been widely implemented as in other foreign countries. For those as yet uninitiated in car terminology, this locator device takes a fix on the car's position, speed and direction of travel from satellite and directs you to the destination road by road. More advanced versions use 3D on a large display screen.

Well, if you own a car, and any of these top gadgets are missing, think of giving yourself one.

Friday, May 16, 2008

Alternate fuel vehicles

In chennai, one litre petrol costs almost rupees 50 and yet there is a great demand for petrol which make us think that in few years petrol might go costlier than gold. Though most of the nations are trying to figure out to meet the demands of fuel, a few techies have made vehicles tat use alternate energy resources. Of which, i like few of them.

Venturi Fetish
This limited edition convertible was the first electric sports car to reach production. Though it wasnt meant for mass production, it took designing of alternate fuel vehicles a step ahead. It became popular because of its high performance. Coming from renowned sports car makers, it is a very interesting machine.

Tesla Roadster
This is a revolutionary car because it not only worries the fellow car makers but also the oil companies. It was built in England by Lotus. It has a very good chassis and amazingly spruced up stuff under its hood. It is not cheap, 'cos of its cutting edge technology and very great things found in it.Twike
The Twike doesn't look like a normal car. Running on 3 wheels, its a great choice in those cities where the pollution level is very high. Powered by an electric motor, it has low carbon emission standards and the best thing about this car is that it is easy to control. The controls are by means of a joystick with fingertip access to acceleration, steering, brakes, turn indicators etc.

With these type of technologies rapidly evolving, the future demand for petrols could be met easliy, i think. Anyway lets hope for science to lead us to a great future.