Cycling tip: the most aerodynamic position on a bike is horizontal - Superman style - as proved by Michael Guerra, who with a fixi - a bicycle with a single gear, which has a direct connection of the pedals to the rear hub via a chain - dealt in an attractive way with classic road bikes.
DevBot is not a model of the Danish toy manufacturer Lego from the Lego Technic series, DevBot is a working prototype of a self-driving electric racing car for the new Roborace motoring championship, in which racing cars without drivers will race. Although it is an autonomous racing car, the DevBot has a seat for the driver, as it is basically made for testing software and other equipment and, consequently, a better understanding of the vehicle that the teams will use in the championship, which will start in a good six months.
The new Tesla Model S P100D boasts better acceleration than Ferrari and Porsche! American electric car manufacturer Tesla Motors has outdone itself again. The Model S was equipped with a new battery with a capacity of 100 kilowatt hours, which enables not only acceleration from zero to 100 km/h in a mere 2.5 seconds, but also a range between 506 and 611 kilometers. In practice, this means that it transports us from Ljubljana to Vienna or Milan without filling up in between. So far, no electric car has been able to charge that much.
You too can't sleep while traveling because your head is shaking left and right? Paula Blankenship has found a solution for everyone who would like to get quality sleep while traveling by bus, train, plane or car. The solution is called NodPod. It is a hammock for your head, with the help of which you will sleep like a log even when sitting up.
For the centenary of Ferrucci's birth, after the spring presentation of the Lamborghini Centenario supercar, Lamborghini has now presented a version without a roof. All 20 roadsters, whose initial price was set at two million euros, have already been sold, so all that remains is for us to admire the octane beauty.
Ride-sharing provider Uber will soon start transporting its customers with self-driving cars. In fact, it has included customized Volvo XC90 models in its fleet, which will receive the first customers before September. It is the first commercial attempt to use fully autonomous vehicles and this type of technology. And while Uber will already transport customers around the world without a driver, we are still waiting for its arrival in Slovenia. How much longer? Uber assures that it has us "on the fly".
Volvo's truck development department is not kidding! Well, sometimes a little bit. Do you remember the famous Jean-Claude Van Damme action hero string between two of their trucks? Or when they let a kid play with their truck like it was a remote control toy? Now they want to break two speed records with the powerful Volvo Iron Knight truck. We will find out whether they will succeed on August 24, 2016!
In Pebble Beach, California, at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance 2016 meeting of prestigious and elegant classics, Mercedes revealed the attractive Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6 study, a six-meter coupe behind which the design team gathered around Robert Lešnik stands, and which completely overshadows the Mercedes S coupe.
British watercraft manufacturer Glider Yachts recently launched the futuristic Super Sports vessel (SS 18, which seems like a bold concept that will never be realized, but it is not). As the name suggests, this speedboat/catamaran measures 18 meters in length, and in the future the British plan to produce a whole series of such fast vessels that will measure up to 80 meters.
CityGo Urban is a smart e-scooter that represents an excellent alternative to all known forms of transportation that we use for transportation to work or for errands. Its design is adapted to city driving, and with a few moves it can already be with you on the bus, at work or in the store. It weighs only 9.8 kilograms, but it also has a foot and can wait for you in front of the store like a bicycle.
The famous figurine on the bonnet of the Rolls-Royce, a beauty called the Spirit of Ecstasy or The Spirit of Ecstasy is the icing on the cake of the exclusivity of these prestigious British cars and is considered the most sought-after and most expensive sign in the automotive industry. A statuette, much like the once protruding Mercedes star, just begging to be stolen. But the one with itchy fingers is in for an unpleasant surprise. The car is equipped with a special anti-theft system, so it is impossible to steal it! Well, except with the whole car.
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Ljubljana 2016, a celebration of fashion, beauty and design, returns to the capital in its autumn edition! MBFWLJ 2016 will visit Cankarjev dom again on October 22, 2016, this time, as the organizer predicts, in a burning image. Designers will present both the collections of the current season and the collections for spring/summer 2017.