Friday, December 2, 2011

We'll Buyback This Jointly Owned, HIGHly Satisfying Podcast

It's the beginning of the holiday season and car dealers and auto makers got some nice holiday news already as folks went out to the car dealers in November, pushing up sales to recent highs.

Chevrolet has had some great success recently with the Volt, nabbing lots of early sales and love from buyers. But they have hit a bump recently with the NHTSA report about a Volt that caught fire. Now GM is offering to buy back vehicles from people who are unnerved by the sketchy fire risk.

Tokyo is a hub of crazy Japanese car culture and the annual motor show there is always delightful. We review some of the interesting designs.

Safe drivers?
We love cars and want to drive something really interesting. But would we spend $8 an hour to own a Ferrari. Maybe.

Voice control is back in vogue and one smart guy has hacked his iPhone to have Siri take control of his car.

MIT researcher who are even smarter have designed an algorithm that can predict whether people will run a red light in 5 milliseconds. But what to do with information.

It might be that smoking marijuana could makes roads even safer. Mostly because pot smokers don't go anywhere.

Finally, some ideas for holiday gifts that car fans would like.


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