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Driverless or Self-Driving Cars by Google

The next generation of transportation is all about fuel efficiency, alternative power source and hybrid technology. Though check this out, a driverless car is being introduced for general public. Who’s initiating the project? Google! The Google Self-Driving Car involves developing technology for autonomous cars. Google Chauffeur is the software powering Google's cars. "Self-driving car" is what the lettering on the side of each car indicates. The project is currently being led by the former director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and co-inventor of Google Street View, Google engineer Sebastian Thrun. Thrun's team at Stanford created the robotic vehicle Stanley which won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge and its US$2 million prize from the United States Department of Defense. The team developing the system consisted of 15 engineers working for Google, including Chris Urmson, Mike Montemerlo, and Anthony Levandowski who had worked on the DARPA Gra

Driving 101: Being Fuel-Efficient Driver

If you haven’t noticed yet, prices of crude oil has been giving us a hard time! Just recently, it reaches a record high. It really has become imperative to alter one’s motoring habits to squeeze more mileage from every liter of fuel. If you ask me, just try to drive a more fuel-efficient vehicle, it’s the easiest of course, well, expensive at the same time. If you find yourself so digging so deep in the pocket then come out empty, probably the next best thing to do is to drive in a more fuel-efficient manner. How it is being done is what this article is all about. Meet Pocholo Ramirez, claimed to be the living legend of Philippine motorsports. If there’s someone from whom we can learn how to drive a more fuel-efficient manner, that would be him. He happen to made the 1,000+ kilometer drive from Ilocos Norte to Sorsogon on a single tank of fuel (being advertized for an oil company TV commercial), and winning a fuel efficiency contest earlier on sponsored by a certain car manufactu