News wires are buzzing.
The news services have been buzzing over the report of the third fire in the all-electric Tesla Model S in the past 6 weeks. For some, the news was seen as significant enough to interrupt the coverage of the largest ever typhoon to make landfall in the Philippines on CNN.
Elon Musk says, “Told you so.”
If you had bought Tesla shares at the start of the year, by the end of October you would have been sitting on a very tidy 400% profit over your original purchase price. But somewhat unusually, Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, in a rare display of corporate honesty, has been telling investors that the price is too high and needs to come down.
Yes, we all know that hot men look hotter with hot cars (case in point, read our article on 007s and their Aston Martins). But what’s hotter than that? Hot women with hot cars, of course.
Everything’s coming up lemons in Singapore, and Automology’s columnist, MAC, takes a moment to ponder on it.
If you are familiar with Singapore, you may think that this statement has something to do with the world famous shopping district in Singapore called Orchard Road, and in a way you would be right. The Lemon Law is actually an act of Parliament in the island republic that covers all things retail, and is described as pro-consumer and pro-friendly at the same time. So, what are Lemon Laws and why are car complaints up as a result?
A host of mobile applications and social media platforms are already being used to foresee traffic conditions of the journey ahead, and to make optimum travel plans.
The Star newspaper, on 30 October 2013, reported that 3 postgraduate students representing Universiti Sains Malaysia received Gold Awards at the British Invention Show. One of them was for the invention of a car security system which uses image processing micro-controllers, Google cloud and mobile technology to function. I feel proud because, firstly, I was from Universiti Sains Malaysia! Secondly, they were Malaysians awarded at the British Invention Show and not Malaysian Invention Show! Bravo! However, this is not the main point. I just got a bit excited with the news.