March 11, 2009 at 7:12 pm
(Source: LiveLeek via Gizmodo)
Pilot And Stewardess Smoke Hashish During Flight and record their feat.
Gotta love our funny friend Jesus Diaz@ Gizmodo for this lovely Note he added to his post on Gizmodo:
Note to self: Never ever book an Aeroflot flight. And with that I really mean “become a pilot and join Aeroflot.”
No cats were harmed in the making of this video. (This link will take you to another video that shocked a lot of us Gizmodo fans when it became public).
February 25, 2009 at 4:35 pm
(Source: Jalopnik)
Armed with only a BMW M3 and a camera, 5th Gear’s Tiff Needell examines what they claim is the world’s greatest driving road, located in the U.A.E. capital of Abu Dhabi. Where else?
The Jebel Hafeet Mountain Road wraps its way around the Jebel Hafeet Mountain, the second highest peak in the U.A.E. at over 4000 feet. The road offers brave drivers 60 corners over 7.3 miles of perfectly paved asphalt while offering a beautiful view of the desert below.
Click here forsome awesome pictures and the rest of the Jalopnik article.
February 25, 2009 at 3:57 pm
(Source: 4WheelNews via Jalopnik/Gizmodo)
(Image Courtesy: BMWUSA)
BMW is reportedly developing a new navigation element which can guess your next destination based on driving habit and time of day. BMW is sorry Dave, it cannot let you put this route at risk.
4WheelNews.com reports: According to BMW the system, which is aptly called the ILENA, short for Intelligent Learning Navigation, is already 80 percent accurate with regards to it guesses of the car’s next possible stop. This system besides the convenience also aims at efficiency. The onboard computer can do some computations and analyses based on the information it gathers and automatically adjusts the car’s performance and power utilization accordingly. When this idea is brought to all of the car’s system, it can effectively lower costs between 5-10 percent.
Click here to read the entire Gizmodo/Jalopnik article. Click here to read the entire 4WheelsNews article.
February 21, 2009 at 12:47 am
(Source: Gizmodo.com)
The bridge built to replace the one that crumbled like delicious goat cheese in Minneapolis in 2007—is a smartie, packed with built-in sensors that perform wonders like automagically de-ice the road in winter.
Less than one percent of the cost of the St. Anthony Falls bridge was spent on the sensor system, which tracks weather, stresses and even traffic, and it’ll save money in the long run, with its automatic de-icing system cutting “weather management” costs by 10 to 50 percent. It’s the incorporation of the smart sensor tech that actually won the contract to build the bridge for the FIGG team. The next step will be wireless sensors that are even cheaper, so it’ll be loaded up with thousands of them, not hundreds.
To read the entire article, click here.
February 20, 2009 at 2:50 pm
(Source: Gizmodo.com)
What could quite possibly be the coolest driveway ever was found outside of Lakeland, Florida. Our friends at The Car Lounge used Google Earth to get a closer view of this killer not-so-mini racetrack driveway.
Click here for more pictures of this awesome driveway.
February 19, 2009 at 1:20 pm
By Andy Palanisamy
The FAA has issued an alert to airlines telling them to tell their pilots to turn their phones off.
The US FAA has issued an alert to airlines following an inspector’s report that a first officer’s cell phone began ringing at a critical phase of a takeoff recently, an incident the agency says was “a potentially serious hazard”.According to the FAA air safety inspector who was riding along on an unnamed airline’s flight from the jump seat, just prior to reaching V1, the speed after which pilots generally are committed to taking off rather than aborting on the runway, a rather loud “warbling” sound was “detected” by both crewmembers.
“It was later determined that the sound came from the first officer’s cellular phone, which had been left in the ON position,” the Safety Alerts For Operators (SAFO) note reads.
“As a result the ring tone caused a distraction between the crewmembers during the takeoff phase and could have led the to crew to initiate an unnecessary rejected takeoff,” the letter continues.
[FlightGlobal via Gizmodo.com]
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