by Fast Machines | Dec 24, 2016 | Exterior
At least for now, Uber won’t be testing self-driving cars on the streets of San Francisco. Determined to make the ride-hailing company play by the same rules as others who test autonomous vehicles in the state, the California Department of Motor Vehicles revoked...
by Fast Machines | Dec 24, 2016 | Auto News
As part of its latest update, Tesla is forcing its Autopilot semi-autonomous system to obey the speed limits on city streets and non-divided highways. Before the update, Tesla owners were able to set the Autopilot system at up to five mph over the posted speed limit,...
by Fast Machines | Dec 24, 2016 | Fast And Dangerous
For a while, Skoda was soldering on as a dated company that produced less-than-modern vehicles, but all that changed in 1996 when the brand introduced the Skoda Octavia. The car has since gone through a couple of redesigns and, for the 2017 model year, it went through...
by Fast Machines | Dec 24, 2016 | Fast And Dangerous
WHAT WE LIKE: Praise for the Camaro’s exhaust sound and the power and flexibility of its engine continues to fill the logbook. The purely American symphony generated by the LT1 V-8 from idle to its 6500-rpm redline is among the car’s greatest strengths. Perhaps most...
by Fast Machines | Dec 24, 2016 | Exterior
In the late 1960s, a couple of Frenchmen living in the Ivory Coast took the robust mechanicals of Citroën’s long-running 2CV and built a utility body to fit. The result, the Baby-Brousse, spawned a legion of imitators, notable among them Greece’s NAMCO Pony and the...