The impending death of manual transmission in the automotive industry

While automatic transmission will dumb down the driving experience, vehicles with manual gears are likely to be prized by connoisseurs for their ability for precision-enabled power driving. The vast majority of cars have always needed manual transmission gears for them to move forward. While in the near future vehicles may require you to keep your…

Apple confirms its interest in autonomous vehicle technology

While Apple has confirmed its interest in self-driving technology and has asked to be treated ‘en pars’ with existing traditional car manufacturers, it has feigned disinterest in developing its own car and has instead requested the sharing of near-crash and crash data from existing players. Apple wants to focus on the underlying technologies of the…

Apple, Samsung Challenged Again by Fallen Smartphone Brand Nokia

After former managers at Nokia struck up partnerships with Google and phone manufacturer Foxconn and licensed the handset brand from Microsoft, the smartphones from the Finnish company are poised for a comeback. Nokia chose Microsoft’s unpopular Windows operating system for its “Lumia” range after it missed the shift to smartphones despite once being the world’s…

“Geohot” releases code for the Comma.ai self-driving technology

A commendable opensource effort, the code can be used by any developer anywhere in the world to learn and understand the code that drives the underlying technology of self-driving cars. Although “Geohot” George Hotz’s Comma One, semi-autonomous driving add-on, did not work as per plan, the underlying technology however is likely to see the light of…