About Sahil Gupta
Sahil GuptaConnect with this authorSahil or Bones, as he is known to everyone, is a heady cocktail of work and play. While most people know him for the gadgets he is always reviewing during the day, by night he’s a music buff and will often be found covering the best gig in town. Even with the shutters down, he will be using the same tech gadgets to chronicle the night. That’s what Bones is all about because work equals to play for him and play turns into work. And now at carandbike, his toys are just getting bigger. Other than this he can be found in his basement playing with his 11 dogs, recording or writing something about tech while watching an episode of Star Trek. Or just blasting some progressive metal while doing all of the above.
Articles of Sahil Gupta
FIA President Jean Todt Wants Formula 1 To Return To Indianapolis
Ferrari's legendary former team principal and the current FIA president, Jean Todt has expressed that it would be good for Formula 1 if the pinnacle of motorsport returns to the Indianapolis motor speedway. Since 2012, the US Grand Prix has been held in Austin, Texas at the Circuit of the Americas but back in the early 2000s when Todt was in charge of Ferrari's record-breaking spree of world championships with Michael Schumacher, Formula 1 made a comeback to the United States at the Indianapolis motor speedway.
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After British GP Tyre Degradation Issues, FIA To Further Cut Downforce For 2021 F1 Season
Pirelli has been under the heat for the last couple of weeks as tyre degradation issues hit most Formula One teams heavily at the recently concluded doubleheader of F1 races at Silverstone. This included the delamination of the tyres leading Mercedes cars of Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas in the first British GP. In the second race which was also Formula One's 70th-anniversary race, Pirelli increased the pressures on the tyres to curtail the tyre degradation issues. Now, Pirelli's head for Formula One Mario Isola has revealed that the FIA is considering a plan to further curtail the level of downforce on the cars next season after it was initially agreed to limit downforce levels on next year's cars because of the lockdowns cased by COVID19. Now, Isola has revealed that downforce levels are further going to be reduced.
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69 Per Cent British Drivers Do Not Prefer Semi-Autonomous Cars
Currently, drivers in the UK are allowed to drive vehicles with semi-autonomous tech but the law requires the driver to be in control of the car which indicates it only accounts for level 2 autonomous driving.
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JD Power’s Latest Report Indicates That People Want More Cameras In Their Cars
The report stressed the fact that people wanted more and better rear cameras and ground view cameras. In addition to this more advanced camera technologies like transparent trailer view techniques will also be appreciated by consumers.
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Google's Android 11 Update Will Enable Most Phones To Wirelessly Enable Android Auto
Google's update on the Android Auto support page now points out that any smartphone with Android 11 will be able to connect wirelessly to the car head unit. However, there are a few technical limitations.
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F1: Williams F1 Team Sold To Dorilton Capital For An Undisclosed Sum
Williams had announced in May 2002 that it had undergone strategic review under which it was exploring extra investment or sale of the iconic Formula 1 team. The new owners will retain the iconic name for the team going forward.
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Uber's Ex CSO Helped Cover Up Silicon Valley's Biggest Heist: Report
Uber's former chief security officer Joe Sullivan was charged on Thursday as he allegedly arranged to pay the hackers $ 100,000 to cloak a high tech heist that exposed the personal information of about 57 million of the ride-hailing service's users and drivers data during 2016.
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Elon Musk Tweets Tesla Will Achieve Full Self-Driving Capabilities Thanks To The Dojo Supercomputer
Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk recently announced on Twitter in his usual flamboyant style to share a variety of updates on Tesla Autopilot and Full Self Driving (FSD). The Dojo Neural Net training centre. Since 2019 April Tesla has been working on a "DOJO", a supercomputer to train neural networks (NN).
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Google Maps To Become More Accurate And Visually Appealing With New Update
Google is also working on updated street maps that will show the accurate shape and width of the road to scale.
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MG Motor India Partners With ZoomCar For Subscription-Based Car Ownership
The lineup of cars will have Hector, Hector Plus and ZS EV; that will be available for a flexible 12, 24 and 36-month subscription programs. We don't yet have the cost factors involved. Stay tuned for the same.
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Sony Marching Ahead With The Development Of The Vision-S Concept
The car also gets some goodies from Sony's iconic audio group with technologies like a 360-degree reality audio system which has speakjavascript:void(0)ers built-in the seat.
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Google To Add Calendar And Other Driver-Focused Apps In Android Auto
Google states that there are over 3,000 applications in the Play store that are meant for car-infotainment systems running Android Auto.
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Google Maps Now Supports CarPlay Dashboard
CarPlay Dashboard will enable users to have the turn-by-turn navigation interface appear alongside controls for music, podcasts, audiobooks amongst others.
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Jaguar Land Rover Invents A Way To Counter Motion Sickness In Autonomous Cars
Solving the problem of motion sickness in driverless cars is the key to unlocking the huge potential of this technology for passengers, who will be able to use the travelling time for reading, working or relaxing," said Dr Steve Iley, Jaguar Land Rover Chief Medical Officer.
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Chinese Tech Majors Didi Chuxing, Baidu And Autox Start Testing Robotaxis
These self-driving taxis alongside delivery services have been thrown into the mix for autonomous vehicles to collect tonnes of data that can enable them to perfect their self-driving algorithms.
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Kia Sonet: 5 Features Which Make It A Tech Laden SUV
Here is a look at all the modern tech the upcoming Kia Sonet will be equipped with.
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Uber Eats Generates More Than Double The Revenue Of Its Core Ride-Sharing Business
Uber Technologies has reported a loss of $1.78 billion in its Q2 2020 earnings owing to lockdowns imposed across the world thanks to the COVID19 pandemic. This has impacted its core ride-sharing massively. Year on year, its ride-sharing business collapsed by 73% compared to Q2 of 2019. On the bright side, with people staying in more, its UberEats, food delivery business, grew massively.
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Apple TV+ To Telecast Adventure Bike Show 'Long Way Up' Featuring Ewan McGregor
McGregor and Boorman will cover over 20,000 kilometres starting in the city of Ushuaia at the tip of South America, going through South and Central America on electric Harley-Davidson Livewire motorcycles which are a hallmark of the series.
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Demand For Cars Back To Pre-COVID Levels Claims Google India
Google's data suggests that while the intent to buy cars in India was down by 35 per cent during the lockdown period, it is now back to the pre-lockdown levels. Automakers need to be more actively engage online as more and more people spending time online searching for new vehicles.
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Singapore Police Get Tricked Out Hyundai Tucson Fleet With Image Recognition Scanners
The customised Hyundai Tucson will be the next-generation Fast Response Car for the Singapore Police Force and will be used by the first responders. The SUV is loaded on features and also comes with number plate recognition technology and a more secure cabin for suspects.
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