Ever wondered where those reflective “lights” come from on our roads - they are called “cats eyes” and for a reason. Cats, like other animals have different eye structures to humans. When a human has a photo taken with a flash, there is often what is known as “red eye”. This is because the rear of the human eye is the retina and this is made up of a mix of blood cells, so … [Read more...]
Most Ride Share Companies Are Related
There are many, many ride sharing companies springing up across the globe. Several are now household names in many cities: Uber in many countries, Lyft in the US, Didi Chuxing in China and Ola in India. For South East Asia, many people know of - and use - Grab whilst in Brazil it is a company called 99. Many of the established companies own stakes in the others: Uber had for … [Read more...]
Tomorrow’s Taxi Didn’t Get Past Today
There have been a handful of motorised vehicles that were specifically made to be a taxicab. The two most well known have been the London Cab and the Checker on the other side of the Atlantic. When the Checker Cab ended production, many taxi owners moved to cars such as the Ford Crown Victoria, however in 2011, the New York City Mayor, Michael Bloomberg announced the winner … [Read more...]
Flyin Miata
Ever since the car was invented, people have wanted to go faster and as engineers started to figure out ways to make cars more powerful and therefore faster, others have followed a tried and true method: take a lightweight car - typically a two seater, remove the original engine and shoehorn in a bigger one and that's usually a V8! I would say that the idea really took off … [Read more...]
Nikola Motors Electric Hydrogen Trucks
Nikola Motors and Tesla Inc have several things in common. Possibly the most obvious - for those of us interested in history - is Nikola Tesla, a very famous electrical engineer who designed an AC powered induction motor, a radio controlled boat and really helped define the alternating current structure that we all use today. As an aside, Nikola Tesla was one of millions of … [Read more...]