Cars, Security and a Peek into my Life
All automakers have a story behind their logo, here’s some of the more colourful ones.
Read it online at Autonet (and sorry it’s so hard to see below, the newspaper didn’t print so crisp today.)
Mercedes’ 3-point star represents vehicles designed to travel by land, sea and air.
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Making the rounds in the news are stories of cars being hacked, but how difficult and probable is it?
Usually, some level of physical access is required.
Read it online at Autonet.ca.
Yes it’s possible, just so long as the attack team includes an elite hacker, probably some level of physical access to the car, a likely a surveillance team tracking you to coordinate the attack. It’s expensive.
Plus the last paragraph, which is the big point.
Blog tag = Auto Security
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It costs about $40, and an Enhanced Driver’s License (EDL) can be used instead of a passport when crossing the border by car.
However! It’s embedded with an RFID tag, meaning, protect it by using an RFID-shielding wallet, like this. Take this seriously, Saskatchewan abandoned EDLs because of the potential security breach.
Read it online at Autonet.
There is one major difference between the two license that you cannot see – and that’s the addition of an embedded RFID tag.
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You can move a car using only the clutch, and that’s Step #1. That’s the “bite point,” your new BFF.
As is the emergency brake when parking, manual cars don’t have a “park gear” like automatics.
Read in online at Autonet.
Lastly, don’t be intimidated. Europe is the opposite of North America in that the majority of cars there are manual; so there’s no way an entire continent is better than you, you got this!
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Flew out Sunday at 5pm, returned today at the same.
My first pod.
I travelled with Audi for the newspaper, to test their all-new 2015 A3 Sedan. Basically, the new entry model Audi. In my review I called it a “starter Audi“, because once you become accustomed to the elegant minimalism, it’s hard to leave the family.
Great times, nice car.
Budapest because the car is manufactured in the city of Gyor, about an hour away.
Another first – the presentation was in Hungarian, so I listened to an interpreter.
This trip’s driving partner was Russ Bond, who you’ve met before, and who just discovered photo filters.
Budapest is beautiful.
Got some amazing footage, went through it tonight and mapped out 5 short videos, including one for the paper, wait, another first – I had to make a 1-minute video for work, talking to the camera no editing, about the car.
I’m nervous, you can tell; I’m fidedgty.
These events are fast paced as it is, the speech was delivered in Hungarian, add in a video, I’m in a busy park, in a foreign land, and there’s more consequences than if I mess up facts here on my blog…
3rd take, not bad, although I did get off to a rocky start, “this is the new A3. It has a trunk”. Oh boy.
Remember that ‘Just a Minute’ video series I did for a minute? That helped.
Seeing really old stuff is good for the head.
Saving my best photos for work. Got the skeleton of my review done on the plane, then honed the angle earlier tonight. Some journalists have already filed their stories, I look at them like this :O Auto journalists are really good at time management, I’ve learned.
My column prints tomorrow, “How to shift gears”, and I’ll get to video editing this weekend; I’m now almost 10 behind omg.Interested in a fun editing job? Pays low to start with huge potential for growth, must be on Final Cut X for Mac, apply within.
I have this weird mindset right now – wired and way overtired un-decompressed, my hands feel huge while typing this, objects have that dreamy sheen to them, night. I have a lot of auto writing to do tomorrow, TTY when that’s done.
