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Audi’s Night Vision Assistant

Mar 27 2015

It’s Audi’s Night Vision Assistant. Neat eh. And crisp, look at those buildings.

Below is Bay Street.

See the time? 4:30pm, the sun hasn’t gone down and it still works.

The yellow rectangles are pedestrians. If there’s a risk of collision, the highlighting turns red and an alarm sounds.

How it works:

It uses a thermal imaging camera, aka an infrared (IR) camera, mounted in the grille.

It can detect pedestrians up to 90m away. Turn the system off via a hard button.

Came up with an idea – a car appears almost all-white when it’s fully loaded with people. Therefore I could use this tech to find 18-wheelers being used for human trafficking, tada.

And that’s me about to get hit.

You Have to Break-in a New Car

Jan 19 2015

Mark Basili of Pfaff Tuning, the customization division of Pfaff Automotive, educates me on why.

Short answer – to protect the piston rings. For the first 1,500 – 3,000 kms use a relaxed driving style, nothing too aggressive but not so far as babying it – giving it the occasional punch is good.

Read it online at Autonet.

Favourite line:

There are no fail safes in place. It all comes down to the human driving it – so make sure to protect the massive investment you just made.

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This is the New Face of Audi

Nov 28 2014

It’s the Audi prologue.

(note: prologue is not capitalized)

It debuted at the 2014 LA Auto Show, and Audi remained one of the busiest booths till the end.

Ahh that wider grille, the whole front end just digs in harder eh,
accented with those narrow wedge headlights that most OEMs shy away from,
because they look too mean. So. Into. This.

That skinny 2-spoke steering wheel… and no screen! Maybe it descends into the dash like their current models, but regardless it’s refreshing not to see a big, black hole in the dash.

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Non-car nerds: this is a concept car, you can’t buy this yet. An automaker makes one to say “hey, we’re about to change up our look here, and it’s probably going to become like this.”

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This is a Gated Shifter

Oct 7 2014

Not into them.

I’m not 100% on the logic behind it, something like: because the engine is so precisely tuned, imperfect shifting causes damage. Except I found it caused poor shifting.

Why: 3rds 3rd, just let me put it there, it’s the same elbow-wrist-flick forever, why is this metal stopping me, my rhythm is now broken, and attention removed from the road, and that high-pitched ding noise when it happens, awful.

Ferrari used to use them extensively, but today…