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An electric monowheel called Dynasphere was tested in 1932 in the United Kingdom. [11] [12] In 1971, an American inventor named Kerry McLean built his first monocycle (aka monowheel). In 2000, he built a larger version, the McLean Rocket Roadster powered by a Buick V-8 engine, which subsequently crashed in 2001 during the initial test run.
A dashboard camera or simply dashcam, also known as car digital video recorder (car DVR), driving recorder, or event data recorder (EDR), is an onboard camera that continuously records the view through a vehicle's front windscreen and sometimes rear or other windows. Some dashcams include a camera to record the interior of the car in 360 ...
You've seen free car media -- regular passenger cars, not company cars, plastered with advertising. Owners of these cars receive a monthly check to compensate them for allowing advertisers to ...
Purves was optimistic about his invention's prospects. As reported in a 1932 Popular Science magazine article, after a filmed test drive in 1932 on a beach in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, he stated that the Dynasphere "reduced locomotion to the simplest possible form, with consequent economy of power", [1] and that it was "the high-speed vehicle of the future". [1]
An upstate New York automobile association is warning its members of a recent uptick in fraudulent emails and text messages. AAA Western and Central New York alerted its members to the fraudulent ...
A hand-power monowheel was patented in 1869 by Richard C. Hemming [2] with a pedal-power unit patented in 1885. [3] Various motorized monowheels were developed and demonstrated during the 1930s without commercial success [4] and Charles F Taylor was granted a patent for a "vehicle having a single supporting and driving wheel" in 1964 after some 25 years of experimentation. [5]
To address the growing number of voice cloning scams, the FTC has announced an open call to action. Participants are asked to develop solutions that protect consumers from voice cloning harms, and ...
[40] The included review described the car as a "barely assembled bag of nuts and bolts", saying that a used car was a better buy. [40] In 2000, Car Talk voted it the "Worst Car of the Millennium". [40] The Yugo was also included on Time magazine's list of the 50 worst cars of all time and CNN's list of the "10 Most Questionable Cars of All Time".