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Dumb driver plays game on iPad while driving 65 MPH on highway in Scotland [Amazing Photo of the Day]
![Dumb driver plays game on iPad while driving 65 MPH on highway in Scotland [Amazing Photo of the Day]](http://cdn.dottech.org/media/2013/05/65mph_iPad_game-290x160.jpg)
Person in his mid 20s plays Real Racing game on his iPad while driving 65 MPH (105 Km/h).
Read More »Forget texting while driving, try playing video games while driving [Image]
![Forget texting while driving, try playing video games while driving [Image]](http://cdn.dottech.org/media/2013/05/n64_in_the_car_wtf-290x160.jpg)
If you thought texting while driving was dangerous, how about playing Super Smash Brothers on N64 while driving?
Read More »This is the iBeetle, a car made by Apple and Volkswagen
What happens when you put together Apple and Volkswagen? Why, the iBeetle of course. The two companies have collaborated to build the iBeetle… but don’t be fooled, this is definitely not the fabled iCar that Steve Jobs wanted to build.
The “Apple” part of this car center around two things.[...]
Read More »![sQuba is the world’s first underwater car [Amazing Photo of the Day]](http://cdn.dottech.org/media/2013/04/squba-290x160.jpg)
More adults text while driving than teenagers, according to AT&T survey
Last month we posted results of study by the American Center for Disease Control that said roughly one in every three Americans text/email while driving, with Europeans not far behind. Now a new survey suggests more adults text or email while driving than teens.
According to AT&T’s ‘Commuter Survey’ and [...]
Read More »![BMW baby stroller [Amazing Photo of the Day]](http://cdn.dottech.org/media/2013/04/bmw_baby_stroller-290x160.jpg)
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30% of Americans text while driving, are either very good at multi-tasking or have a death wish
How many dotTechies text while driving? It appears that common sense regarding texting while driving is not as common as we would hope. According to a study by the American Centers for Disease Control (CDC), a lot of people text while driving.
The results, based on a survey conducted by [...]
Read More »Oxford University invents self-driving electric car powered by an iPad
Google has been working on a self-driving car for long time now. Japan just recently introduced self-driving trucks. Of course the British don’t want to be left out, so they got in on the action. Researchers at Oxford University have developed a self-driving electric car — that is powered by [...]
Read More »Burning taxicab in New York [Amazing Photo of the Day]
![Burning taxicab in New York [Amazing Photo of the Day]](http://cdn.dottech.org/media/2013/03/burning_taxi_cab-290x160.jpg)
I feel bad for the person who’s taxi this is (was) and the people that may have got hurt, but this is an awesome photo
Read More »Japan already has trucks that can drive themselves
Slow down Japan! While everybody else in the world is seemingly still preparing for self-driving cars, they’ve already got theirs on the road. Japanese company NEDO, has a convoy of four trucks programmed to drive 4 meters from each other while on the road.
The reason for the spacing is [...]
Read More »Horrific crash at NASCAR Daytona causes car parts to fly into the stands, injures 14 fans [Video]
Yesterday the NASCAR Nationwide Series DRIVE4COPD 300 race took place at Daytona International Speedway. Unfortunately for a select few, the race ended up in disaster when Kyle Larson (#32) and Brian Scott (#2) collided near the end, sending Larson’s car into the fence that separates the race track and onlookers. [...]
Read More »Road rage + bus driver + bicyclist = Ouch [Video]
How many dotTechies suffer from road rage? I admit, I have a mild form of the disease and, although I have learned to subdue it, cuss words are often heard coming out of my mouth while driving. It is safe to say the following bus driver has a more severe [...]
Read More »Who needs a school bus: kid hitches ride to school by holding onto back of speeding dump truck [Image]
![Who needs a school bus: kid hitches ride to school by holding onto back of speeding dump truck [Image]](http://cdn.dottech.org/media/2013/02/uh-what-290x160.gif)
Kids do crazy things. Fortunately I was (am) one of the cooler headed ones (read: panzy) and never did anything really that insane during my childhood. I cannot say the same for the kid in the following image. I am not sure where he is going (presumably school due to [...]
Read More »It is safe to say the wife had a better lawyer in this divorce [Image]
![It is safe to say the wife had a better lawyer in this divorce [Image]](http://cdn.dottech.org/media/2013/02/was_his-290x160.jpg)
Earlier we had shared an image of a homeless man that held up a sign proclaiming: “My ex-wife had a better lawyer”. Originally I thought he was simply joking. However, now I know he was serious. Indeed, in his previous life he was loaded — I just found his old [...]
Read More »“How to park a SUV” — today’s hilarious animated GIF [Image]
![“How to park a SUV” — today’s hilarious animated GIF [Image]](http://cdn.dottech.org/media/2013/02/fail_parking-290x160.gif)
I may be wrong but I am guessing most dotTechies are above the age of eighteen and, as such, drive cars. Let’s have it: raise your hand if you are terrible at parking? I know I am, although I would like to think I am improving (at least that is [...]
Read More »Steve Jobs wanted Apple to build an iCar
Reports are beginning to surface that the late Steve Jobs wanted to build an Apple-branded car before he died. Meetings with Volkswagen reportedly took place as far back 2007 to discuss the project.
iDB notes that somewhere in the New York Times story about Apple building a smartwatch, there was [...]
Read More »I believe the message here is: “STOP your (bloody) car” [Image]
![I believe the message here is: “STOP your (bloody) car” [Image]](http://cdn.dottech.org/media/2013/02/so_many_stop_signs-290x160.jpg)
I am not sure how it works in other countries, but here in the United States we have something called ‘STOP’ signs. These signs are typically at intersections on roads that don’t have a stoplight. If you see one on your side of the road, you have to stop before [...]
Read More »Is it a boat or a car? [Image]
![Is it a boat or a car? [Image]](http://cdn.dottech.org/media/2013/02/car_or_boat-290x160.jpg)
How many dotTechies are car people? (Or maybe I should ask how many dotTechies are car guys. No offense ladies.) And by car people I mean not just admiring exotic (and sometimes not so exotic) vehicles but also having the skill, knowledge, and desire to repair, build, and customize [...]
Read More »The world’s smallest car looks really painful to drive [Video]
Jeremy Clarkson, host of the BBC’s Top Gear, recently showed off what appears to be the tiniest car. It’s called the P45, and it looks more like a go-kart where the driver wears armor. But according to Clarkson, the helmet is actually the car’s roof, the visor is its windshield. [...]
Read More »This is one incredibly lucky driver [Image]
![This is one incredibly lucky driver [Image]](http://cdn.dottech.org/media/2013/02/lucky_driver-290x160.gif)
How many dotTechies drive cars regularly, or drove cars regularly in a past life? My guess is most. How many dotTechies have gotten into major accidents? I hope none. In my short time as a driver, I have only had a small fender bender (that is a story for another [...]
Read More »Volvo’s new ‘Collision Warning with Emergency Brake’ system is insane, stops a speeding 40 ton eighteen wheel truck from rear-ending a car [Video]
How many times have you witnessed an accident where one vehicle rear-ended the other? Such accidents typically happen because the driver of the back vehicle wasn’t paying attention to the road. While rear-end accidents can be dangerous with cars, they are even more so dangerous with eighteen wheeler trucks, due [...]
Read More »Car smashes into Apple Store in Chicago
In one of the more bizarre Apple-related stories recently, shoppers at the Lincoln Park Apple Store in Chicago got the quite surprise when a car decided to drive into the store — by crashing through the store’s front glass wall.
While the car managed to smash one of the display [...]
Read More »$60,000 will get you a really cool, James-Bond-style hidden underground garage for your car [Amazing Photo of the Day]
![$60,000 will get you a really cool, James-Bond-style hidden underground garage for your car [Amazing Photo of the Day]](http://cdn.dottech.org/media/2012/12/hidden_garage_1-290x160.jpg)
Earlier this week we saw the ‘Seabreacher’, a dolphin-shaped dive boat that even James Bond would be proud of. Want to know what is James-Bond-style? An underground, hidden parking garage.
The following is a hidden underground single-car garage you can have put in at your home for roughly $60,000 ($70,000 [...]
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