And now, the best use of a BlackBerry Storm I have seen to date: Lewis Hamilton, the British Formula One driver, appears in a YouTube video controlling his F1 car remotely with Research in Motion’s touchscreen smartphone.
Here’s the backstory: A couple of Vodafone subscribers in the UK hacked a BlackBerry Storm to race a toy R/C F1 car around a homemade track. That’s what appears in the first minute or so of the video. The Storm’s built-in accelerometer lets them steer the car by tiling the phone back and forth, while acceleration and braking is controlled with buttons on the phone’s touch screen, according to Autoblog.
Once word got out and Team McLaren heard about it, they invited the fellows to the McLaren Mercedes garage, where they adapted the control system to a real F1 car…Â Details
Los Angeles motorists can save nearly 50 percent on car repairs by patronizing an independent repair shop rather than a dealership, says a first-ever industry-sponsored study of the issue.
After comparing the cost of 10 common vehicle repairs, the Automotive Aftermarket Industry Association found that dealerships …Â Details
The 40th Gatornationals are underway today at Gainesville Raceway, and it provides the perfect opportunity for the NHRA — that’s the National Hot Rod Association for the drag racing impaired — to seize some national attention.
I’m not the biggest drag-racing buff this side of the Mississippi, but I’ve always found it enjoyable to feel the rumble in your chest created by the Top Fuel and Funny Car classes…Â
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Brian Wolfe has learned to live with less and, hopefully, make it work.
The director of Ford’s North American motorsports program since the middle of 2008 came from the company’s power train unit, where he says budget and personnel cuts were a way of life long before the economy began crashing down around everyone’s heads.
“There’s no easy jobs at the OEMs (original equipment manufacturers),†Wolfe said Thursday in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. “I’ve been at Ford for 27 years now in a variety of leadership positions and you learn to focus on what’s really critical to be successful.
“And being successful means I have to have a winning platform and championship capable teams and I have … Details