A team of mechanical engineering students of RV College of Engineering, Bangalore, has designed and developed  a car that does almost 250 miles to a gallon in test conditions. They have achieved this by making the car  aero-dynamic and extremely light weight.The car has a a low power 97 cc generator engine of two horse power.
They are calling this Project Garuda. Thier aim is to build a super milage single person car. Their plan is actually a  single person 4 wheeler. This is for the extra safety provided by the four wheels. The driver …

Google Android is a linux kernel based operating system and development environment that is both open source and free. The web gaint is now teaming up with Wind River Systems and Itnel to introduce Android into car infotainment systems. Today infotainment systems are more than vedio and music, they also have features ranging from GPS to IM. It is this phenomenon of merging technologies that google is trying to utilise to enter the Autosegment.
Now let us look at it from a differentperspective , one in which we analyse how it …

Toyota has developed airbags for the rear window. Today’s smaller cars have little or no space between the passenger and the rear window, as Toyota puts it and they elaborate that there is very little metal or other car body parts in that region to absorb the impact. This new safety device,  they claim comes in to fill the gap.
In reality the amount of safety this device provides needs to be questioned as smaller cars that would need this device usually have a smaller rear window which means that there …