Is Top-Down Convertible Driving Wise During Social Distancing?
A couple of months into social distancing, physicians, scientists, and other experts are beginning to warn that the six-foot rule is not always the six-foot rule.
This COVID-19 coronavirus spreads way too easily and convertible car corona, as a result, is worth serious consideration before you lower the roof. Convertible car corona, it seems, isn't something to take lightly.
"That six feet is in still air, and no motion," says Dr. Matthew Sims, director of infectious-disease research for Beaumont Health, Michigan's largest hospital system. "I think it's safer, in general, if you're going to use your car, consider it an enclosure."
Read the article at MSN.
The Autonomous Car Industry Is About to Get Hammered
The coronavirus pandemic is drying up the capital markets, and that's extremely bad news in the world of autonomous vehicles.
Development of that technology is costly for both legacy automakers and new startups. Adding semi-autonomous features to your next vehicle, creating fully robotic cars, and making money while doing so, is another thing.
For regulatory reasons, automakers largely have no choice but to keep investing big bucks into electric vehicles and batteries. Self-driving car tech may be a luxury in this economy. Ride-hailing and car share services could also see big changes. Automakers and tech companies banked the future on these.
Read the article at The Drive.
General Motors Helps Introduce More Clean Power Into The Grid
General Motors has been busy pivoting into the medical supply area over the past several weeks during the coronavirus pandemic, but GM has also been connecting the dots between electric vehicle ownership and rising demand for renewable energy.
GM has kicked its commitment to EV technology into high gear, inking a joint EV agreement with Honda, under which the two companies will develop two new electric vehicles for Honda that deploy GM’s proprietary new Ultium EV batteries.
Read the article at Clean Technica.
Traffic Is Down But Speeding Tickets Over 100 MPH Are Way, Way Up
Due to the covid-19 outbreak, it would appear the diminishing traffic and open roads have encouraged some to break the traffic laws, as citations over the century mark are way up in recent weeks.
It’s not too shocking to see a spike in car crimes when things have been cleared out on an unprecedented scale everywhere, with only loose enforcement of quarantine and stay-at-home orders in many areas. The area empties out and the street-racers and “real drivers” go out and have themselves a good time. At least until the cops catch on or somebody gets hurt.
The California Highway Patrol claims its ticketing almost twice as many motorists for speeding since the start of the stay-at-home order compared to the year prior, when there was no stay-at-home order.
Read the article at Jalopnik.
Beyond Telematics – A Powerful Infrastructure
Geotab’s open platform and Marketplace have done quite a job when it comes to building great infrastructure for fleet management software and GPS vehicle tracking devices.
